Example sentences of "be assume [conj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're assuming that painting takes longer , is more effort . |
| 2 | Since no comment is made on the author being recently dead , it can be assumed that publication had been arranged while Leapor was still alive . |
| 3 | It might perhaps be assumed that families sending girls to be compositors would be those where there was some interest in books , but the evidence is very fragmentary . |
| 4 | It is accepted that not every ‘ foul ’ committed in breach of the rules amounts to a crime , and it seems to be assumed that players do , and may lawfully , consent to physical force over and above the minimum permitted by the rules . |
| 5 | From some authors it may be assumed that pluralism represents an especially naive set of propositions about how political power is perfectly , or nearly perfectly , distributed within Western liberal democracies . |
| 6 | It should not be assumed that people do not care whose sandwiches they are buying in a BR buffet . |
| 7 | The hat and coat had been delivered the previous evening by an officer of the Kha-Khan 's guard , and since the news of Jehana 's betrothal had been spread through the court hours earlier it had to be assumed that Artai had heard of it , and that either he was inclined to forgive the offence which might be supposed to exist , or else he was pretending that he was aware of none . |
| 8 | The outcome is quite unknown but Ceolred was unquestionably the invader and it should not be assumed that Ine won . |
| 9 | It simply can not be assumed that samples selected for their distinctiveness on one variable will vary randomly on others . |
| 10 | Nor can it be assumed that Eadwine found new allies among the eastern Angles in c . |
| 11 | I 'm assuming that David 's suggested that |
| 12 | It has typically been assumed that firms act perfectly competitively and that all markets clear . |
| 13 | In the past , it has been assumed that nurses have already developed these skills when leaving school , or that they are acquired whilst providing patient care . |
| 14 | It had always been assumed that Gooch wanted to spend time with his family before the new home season begins in April . |
| 15 | Similarly , it has been assumed that voters consider only alternatives in a small neighbourhood of the current position . |
| 16 | One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ . |
| 17 | The most common treatment of the bequest motive is to assume that bequests enter the lifetime utility function ( e.g. , Yaari , 1964 , 1965 ) . |
| 18 | The easiest way to introduce technical progress is to assume that factors become more effective over time , e.g. , that one worker can do the work that two did a decade ago . |
| 19 | But this is to assume that humans have a natural capacity to recognise and reflect on their interests , and that they will only stand so much injustice . |
| 20 | Although it is assumed that birds have not a highly developed sense of taste , both tits and blackbirds , despite any flamboyant coloration to attract them , recognise Sturmers as worthy of attention , and those out of reach , when harder weather prevails , will , as in former winters , attract both fieldfares and winter-visiting blackcaps . |
| 21 | In the United States it is assumed that citizens have the right to know and it is up to the government to prove in court that certain types of information should not be disclosed . |
| 22 | Third , in all the campaign reports , it is assumed that canvassers do not have the time to discuss politics or local or personal grievances with voters on the doorstep during an election campaign . |
| 23 | The claim that status frustration is the motivating factor also suffers from a middle-class bias , in that it is assumed that delinquents cherish middle-class status goals , such as educational success . |
| 24 | ( It is assumed that members have read them . ) |
| 25 | It is assumed that research has established what the nature of child abuse is , who the actual and potential perpetrators and victims are and hence what are the associated factors which put children at ‘ high risk ’ . |
| 26 | One way to reconcile the results was to assume that monopoles move relatively slowly , at only 0.1 per cent the velocity of light or less . |
| 27 | It was assumed that projects exist either with easily specified cash flows or with easily specified underlying factors which give rise to those cash flows . |
| 28 | In assessing the impact of stories of premature interment , one must bear in mind that for most of the nineteenth century , medical science , such as it was , was helpless in the face of coma and cardiac arrest ; if the patient had apparently ceased breathing and had no discernable heartbeat , it was assumed that death had come . |