Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [adv] be assumed " in BNC.

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1 Likewise they implicitly assume that over the medium-term ( 3-10 years ) , the supply side can not be assumed to be constant .
2 This is now the nearest railway to Bishop 's Castle and Clun , but its future can not be assumed .
3 Indeed , now that growth in energy demand can not be assumed , there is the further issue that each new nuclear station directly reduces coal demand .
4 Health policy did not escape this intellectual challenge , but policy prescription can not be assumed to lead to policy change .
5 A common approach can not be assumed : most district and regional managers have spent their careers in the acute sector , and have little understanding of the interlocking network of roles , relationships , and agencies that constitute primary care .
6 Even those entries — unquestionably the majority — which represent profits accruing from physical possession of land can not be assumed to hold a uniform significance .
7 Work-place acquaintance can safely be assumed to explain most of these weddings — though as it happens , two of the surviving women compositors , one who married a compositor from another printing office , and one whose husband worked at Bartholomew 's the map-printers , told me that they had met their future husbands at social gatherings unconnected with work .
8 Since this is one aspect of the " ongoing negotiation " and preferences of " newcomers " to the interaction can not be assumed at the outset , the circumstances which will most favour a speedy agreement to use Creole are those where there are few participants — ideally the minimum , two — and these individuals are already well known to each other , and known to favour Creole .
9 New information is forced to the front as though it were given information , suggesting that a famous writer can always be assumed to be energetic and successful at school .
10 But truthfulness can not be assumed in every instance .
11 Good rapport can not be assumed ; it has to be cultivated and regularly tended .
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