Example sentences of "it [vb mod] not be assumed " in BNC.
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| 31 | 2.41 He went on to say that it should not be assumed that the wife 's dependency ought to be calculated on the footing that it would have ceased when her husband ceased earning before he reached 65 . |
| 32 | It should not be assumed , therefore , that it is legitimate to recommend excessively frequent dealing to a non-private customer . |
| 33 | Timothy Langdale , QC , counsel for Guppy , said he had had high expenses in recent years and it should not be assumed ‘ that there is some pot of gold stuck in some foreign country ’ . |
| 34 | It must not be assumed that the absence of a 24-hour rhythm in newborn babies means that they have no rhythms at all . |
| 35 | It must not be assumed that the most likely date is in the centre of the range ; to quantify the distribution of the calendar dates , one of the probability methods ( which require computerisation ) must be used . |
| 36 | Although owning a car is common today , it must not be assumed that all nurses can provide their own transport . |
| 37 | However , at present it must not be assumed that sales always produce immediate problems . |
| 38 | So also , it must not be assumed that Ministers and civil servants regard judicial decisions as necessarily embodying the ultimate wisdom , especially where those decisions limit their powers . |
| 39 | The lists of items in Categories I , II , III and IV are not exhaustive , and it must not be assumed that items of storage not specifically mentioned are regarded automatically as coming under Category I. In general , items under Categories II , III and IV are those where experience has shown that the materials produce exceptionally intense firms with the high rate of heat release . |
| 40 | It must not be assumed that everyone wishes to participate — ‘ active citizenship ’ ( to use one of the Conservative Party 's catchphrases ) is not for everyone . |
| 41 | It must not be assumed that everyone initially agrees about the implications . |
| 42 | Loyalty had to be reaffirmed each time it was required ; it could not be assumed merely by reason of inhabiting a particular locality . |
| 43 | It had been a major error of judgement on the part of Lenin and the Bolshevik leadership , disregarding Lenin 's earlier warnings that it could not be assumed in any country that class issues would automatically supersede national ones . |
| 44 | In Rogers v. Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd. ( 1986 ) the Court of Appeal said it could not be assumed that the statutory definition of merchantable quality ( which dates from 1973 ) was merely a codification of earlier judicial pronouncements upon the meaning of merchantable quality ; pre-1973 cases therefore should not be relied upon . |
| 45 | It ca n't be assumed that they will just learn and pick things up as they go along . |
| 46 | ( 4 ) For the purpose of determining whether a person occupying any land is in adverse possession of the land it shall not be assumed by implication of law that his occupation is by permission of the person entitled to the land merely by virtue of the fact that his occupation is not inconsistent with the latter 's present or future enjoyment of the land . |
| 47 | Furthermore it can not be assumed that all RDS information will be received accurately at all times . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Besides , the causes of some 60% of birth defects have yet to be discovered : it can not be assumed that all of them travel down only the female line . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school . |
| 52 | It can not be assumed that women over 65 would have had an adequate screening history and therefore can be forgotten , or that there is no point in regular follow-up of older patients . |
| 53 | The use made of resources allocated is as important as the extent of the original allocation : it can not be assumed that budgeting money or designating a staff member as training officer , will ensure more than nominal training unless there is more than nominal commitment to the concept that systematic training should be integral to library management . |
| 54 | However , it is worth emphasising that the stages and the measures on which they are based are derived from a grammatical description and that , in the case of children with language difficulties , it can not be assumed that structurally based measures are predictive of functional skills ( Blank et al . |
| 55 | If a person intends doing someone harm , it can not be assumed that s/he displays a disdain towards humanity , although it is clearly directed towards the particular intended victim . |
| 56 | Sexuality may be a component in stratification by gender but it can not be assumed a priori by a process of projection in which the male sociologist , himself accustomed to thinking of women in these terms , imposes his own proclivities and preoccupations on the data he is analysing . |
| 57 | It can not be assumed , however , that such organisational interests necessarily serve particular external interests … . |
| 58 | It can not be assumed , either by the sociologist or by anyone else , that particular policy measures are in any way neutral instruments which are somehow divinely ‘ right ’ for the particular society concerned . |
| 59 | But even if that is held to be culpable ignorance , it can not be assumed that if the voters did know of those plans or intentions they approved of them . |
| 60 | It can not be assumed at the outset that all elements are the product of similar processes of objectification . |