Example sentences of "[pron] be assumed that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is assumed that technical progress is purely labour-augmenting .
2 It is assumed that overall coverage of new publications in the authority is achieved by these departments .
3 Foreign trade is excluded from consideration , since it is assumed that such trade will not affect the value of production , but merely affect its material form .
4 It is assumed that so-called reminder treatments act in some way to increase the likelihood that associations ( especially weak ones that will be most in need of such help ) will be effective in generating overt conditioned responding , then the pattern of results observed can be accommodated .
5 It is assumed that provisional agreement has been reached between prospective partners , all of whom are fully qualified solicitors ; that the firm name has been chosen and premises identified ; that certificates and licences have been obtained as necessary in relation to specialist aspects of the work of the practice and registration obtained for VAT ; that the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund has been informed of the existence of the new practice ; and generally that there is no legal or professional obstacle to accepting instructions from clients .
6 It is assumed that scientific knowledge grows in a series of discrete steps , each corresponding with a specific advance which can be precisely located in time ’ .
7 If it is assumed that this country had achieved the minimum level of industrial development by 1850 , then the available circumstantial evidence suggests that by then about 70 per cent of the working class had achieved basic literacy rates .
8 An alternative approach is to measure share price changes ; prices at any given time reflect the market 's estimate of future performance and if it is assumed that this estimate is reliable then a comparison of ‘ before and after ’ figures should provide an accurate guide to the change in earning potential brought about by merger .
9 Although no birds are in evidence , it is assumed that this Labour is indicated .
10 It is assumed that gastric metaplasia arises from the necks of Brunner 's glands and is the result of a persistently high concentration of acidity in the duodenal bulb .
11 It was assumed that all learning could be reduced to a series of conditioned reflexes .
12 In the British Army , discipline was centred around self-discipline , and it was assumed that each man had enough self-discipline to carry out an order without being told twice .
13 In 1990 , it was assumed that each assistant would average twenty items a minute ( Cutter and Rowe 1990 ) .
14 The widespread nature of the process took people by surprise ; it was assumed that metropolitan growth was a permanent feature of modern society .
15 It was assumed that any erosion terraces would show as modes in the frequency distribution .
16 The late fifties and early sixties , when I lived in Windsor Great Park , were creative and critical in manner : the established order was questioned ( sometimes cynically ) , but it was assumed that well-directed idealism could change human society .
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