Example sentences of "[be] assume [that] [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 If one separates them , it may be assumed that vocational courses are more valid than non-vocational , but nothing could be further from the truth .
2 A system can be designed much more economically if it can be assumed that skilled personnel are available to control and take care of it .
3 In any situation where someone has died , it may be assumed that more people are likely to be significantly affected by the death of that one individual than may seem apparent .
4 To account for them by subsidence , it must be assumed that preglacial subsidence was so slow that any breaches could be healed by new coral growth , while the Post-glacial rise of sea level was so rapid that any breaches formed could not be filled .
5 Until recently it had always been assumed that all calories are the same , regardless of where they came from .
6 It has often been assumed that these figures were simply invented , and are evidence that the Bible is historically unreliable .
7 Whilst it has been assumed that these charges were fabricated by Musgrave ( and perhaps by Thomas Cromwell , q.v. ) , there is evidence to suggest that Dacre did indeed have private arrangements with the Scots which served to divert their raids away from his estates and on to Bewcastle .
8 Traditionally , it has been assumed that this information is derived from non-visual sources such as the vergence angle of the eyes .
9 Until now it has been assumed that social changes are determined by events which have the same status in the sense that they may all be conditions and consequences of each other .
10 It is assumed that homologous structures are there as a consequence of evolution from a common ancestor , so homologous structures common to all mammals would be presumed to have been present in our common ancestor .
11 Answer guide : It is assumed that variable costs are the same per unit of activity ; therefore the variable costs will move in proportion to activity levels , i.e. in a linear fashion .
12 However , this method should only be used in the circumstances described , for the following reason : since it is assumed that such files are not readable , they do not appear in any of the Quality Assurance processes or in hard copy outputs showing module contents .
13 It is assumed that technical progress is purely labour-augmenting .
14 As with Lombroso 's work and the Gluecks ' study discussed above , by starting with institutionalised criminals , it is assumed that all prisoners are criminals and that most criminals do , in fact , go to prison .
15 It is assumed that all trains are of equal length and are all moving at the same speed , so that they each take p seconds to pass the crossing .
16 Unless it is assumed that superior genes are permanently located in the Brahmin caste ( and there is no evidence that this is the case ) then there is probably no relationship between genetically based and socially created inequality in traditional Hindu society .
17 Although no birds are in evidence , it is assumed that this Labour is indicated .
18 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 .
19 Even today , when the tottering of a Goldcrest or TESE is taken as a sign that the film industry is going under , it 's assumed that big companies are the key to surviving in the film business , because that 's the way they do things in LA .
20 The widespread nature of the process took people by surprise ; it was assumed that metropolitan growth was a permanent feature of modern society .
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