Example sentences of "be assume that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most important , given that a rogue GMO in the environment might continue to reproduce and spread , it can not be assumed that any system of regulation can adequately guard against an environmental catastrophe . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It might be assumed that forcible resistance to power without right must itself be legal and not revolutionary ; but in every case there seems no recourse except to force of some kind . |
| 4 | Since any comprehensive peace implies a reduction of influence by , and local dependency on , the superpowers , it can not be assumed that either superpower has a strong interest in a genuine peace , unless it is able to derive greater advantage from peace than it can from continued conflict . |
| 5 | I am assuming that this identity business is a foible of John 's , of Tod 's , of Hamilton 's , and not universal . |
| 6 | It had been assumed that increased rehabilitation input would achieve the ‘ big move ’ out of hospital and the restoration of substantial numbers of patients to some moderate state of well-being . |
| 7 | While for some this may be evident enough in the society of mass consumption , it has equally commonly been assumed that this degree of variability is an aberrant result of the wastage of modern capitalism , and that the ‘ pristine ’ subjects of social anthropology live in a far closer relationship with the given needs of their environment ( e.g. Forde 1934 ) . |
| 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 | Traditionally , it has been assumed that this information is derived from non-visual sources such as the vergence angle of the eyes . |
| 10 | The University is assuming that any growth in its student numbers will be on a fees-only basis , and will include proportionately more graduate and Science students than undergraduates and Arts students . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is assumed that technical progress is purely labour-augmenting . |
| 13 | It is assumed that overall coverage of new publications in the authority is achieved by these departments . |
| 14 | It is assumed that so-called reminder treatments act in some way to increase the likelihood that associations ( especially weak ones that will be most in need of such help ) will be effective in generating overt conditioned responding , then the pattern of results observed can be accommodated . |
| 15 | It is assumed that gastric metaplasia arises from the necks of Brunner 's glands and is the result of a persistently high concentration of acidity in the duodenal bulb . |
| 16 | ‘ It is assumed that scientific knowledge grows in a series of discrete steps , each corresponding with a specific advance which can be precisely located in time ’ . |
| 17 | It is assumed that provisional agreement has been reached between prospective partners , all of whom are fully qualified solicitors ; that the firm name has been chosen and premises identified ; that certificates and licences have been obtained as necessary in relation to specialist aspects of the work of the practice and registration obtained for VAT ; that the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund has been informed of the existence of the new practice ; and generally that there is no legal or professional obstacle to accepting instructions from clients . |
| 18 | If it is assumed that this country had achieved the minimum level of industrial development by 1850 , then the available circumstantial evidence suggests that by then about 70 per cent of the working class had achieved basic literacy rates . |
| 19 | Although no birds are in evidence , it is assumed that this Labour is indicated . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the British Army , discipline was centred around self-discipline , and it was assumed that each man had enough self-discipline to carry out an order without being told twice . |
| 22 | In 1990 , it was assumed that each assistant would average twenty items a minute ( Cutter and Rowe 1990 ) . |
| 23 | The widespread nature of the process took people by surprise ; it was assumed that metropolitan growth was a permanent feature of modern society . |
| 24 | It was assumed that all learning could be reduced to a series of conditioned reflexes . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was assumed that any erosion terraces would show as modes in the frequency distribution . |