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

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1 Although owning a car is common today , it must not be assumed that all nurses can provide their own transport .
2 It will be assumed that all responses can be published unless you indicate otherwise .
3 However , it can not be assumed that all managers will consider the role of personality when they make decisions .
4 Our public houses vary in terms of individual design and construction , but the plans provided are typical of the two types of unit distinguished in the Preliminary Report , and it may be assumed that appropriate proposals will be suitable for other units falling within the same category .
5 This mode of study was too time-consuming to be suited to the part-time student and it had to be assumed that these benefits would be provided by the employer and the real-life work situation .
6 ’ We have no policy on single-sex swimming , as it has never been an issue before and it has always been assumed that all children would swim together . ’
7 The talks between Electronic Data Systems Corp and British Telecommunications Plc about a possible alliance have cooled , the Wall Street Journal believes : rather surprisingly , the paper says that British Telecom had been considering buying 25% of General Motors Corp 's Class E shares , which simply pay dividends tied to the computer services subsidiary 's performance ; it had been assumed that British Telecom would not be interested in holding a significant minority interest in an automaker just to cement an alliance with one of its subsidiaries .
8 Rather oddly , in the context of a crisis in which the abolition of the House of Lords was under consideration , it seems to have been assumed that this reservation would present a realistic safeguard against a majority party in the House of Commons seeking to keep its government in power indefinitely rather than face the country .
9 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 .
10 It is assumed that all trainees will return to their bureaux and where necessary areas of weakness that emerged during training will be worked at with their in-bureau tutor .
11 In 1990 , it was assumed that each assistant would average twenty items a minute ( Cutter and Rowe 1990 ) .
12 It was assumed that all learning could be reduced to a series of conditioned reflexes .
13 When Mrs Thatcher took office in May 1979 it was assumed that southern Africa would cause a massive rift between her and the black African states of the Commonwealth .
14 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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