Example sentences of "[be] assumed to be the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Decrements at high levels are assumed to be the result of the impairment to short memory .
2 For Marxist sociology , as we have seen , cause and correction have not usually been problematic , since capitalism has been assumed to be the cause and the transition to socialism the cure ; their attention has been more directed to capitalist law-creation and-enforcement .
3 The demonstrators against the war in the streets of the capital are using the weapon of Islamic solidarity to have a go at the western powers , and some are indirectly critical of Mr Suharto , who is assumed to be the West 's friend .
4 It is possible to imagine a web of direct relationships between mosaics , wherein each mosaic is assumed to be the work of a craftsman who had worked on at least one other mosaic in the group .
5 Don Juan Pond , 122 m above sea level in Wright Valley and now only a few centimetres deep , is assumed to be the remnant of a much larger freshwater lake of at least 10 m depth .
6 Sex is assumed to be the property of a ‘ physical elite ’ : our sexual possibilities are significantly affected by our appearance .
7 In normal driving , performance at this level is assumed to be the result of automatic processing .
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