Example sentences of "[adv] assumed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why the date 1785 was used is uncertain ; it was said by Professor J.G. Wright to commemorate the meeting of the Odiham Agricultural Society when the first mention of the idea of improving farriery was made , but the strong possibility remains that it was originally meant to be 1875 , the year the College received its Charter of Incorporation and adopted its coat of arms , and that someone corrected what was wrongly assumed to be an error . |
| 2 | In 1982 the presidency was constitutionally assumed by Biya who continued his drive to ‘ modernize ’ the economy . |
| 3 | No complete census of dolphins has ever been carried out in India , although the total population is generally assumed to be between 4000 and 5000 . |
| 4 | But this explanation is not sufficient to explain the phenomenon : there is a definite difference between , shall we say , an amoeba and a crystal , yet the crystal grows and ( in a very limited sense ) reproduces — two activities that are generally assumed to be characteristic of living material . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that single-parent families , people on their own , or unrelated people living together constitute 32 per cent of all households ( Central Statistical Office , 1979 , p. 44 ) , the household is generally assumed to be the nuclear family . |
| 6 | Alcohol and tobacco are generally assumed to be products with a very inelastic demand . |
| 7 | Controlled processes are generally assumed to be voluntary , flexible and capacity limited while automatic ones are highly efficient , unavoidable , resistant to modification , not subject to capacity limitations and able to occur without awareness ( LaBerge , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | The assertion that Derrida 's work incurs a form of relativism is thus exactly to the point , though its implications are rather different from those generally assumed in such a complaint . |
| 9 | It was generally assumed among the pupils that our teachers , being women , would have preferred to be fully sexual , childbearing beings . |
| 10 | To be European in Italy is a logical extension of what is already assumed to be one 's natural multiple identity within a family , a city , a region and a nation . |
| 11 | Nor can the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East claim that it would come from growth , because growth is already assumed in our plans . |
| 12 | Women were normally assumed to be dependent members of a family unit : daughters living at home before marriage ; wives of employed husbands ; or if unmarried , sheltered by parents or siblings . |
| 13 | for approximate computational purposes it is normally assumed in the western world that a full working year is no more than 200 man-days . |
| 14 | The conception of the centrality of literature could be tacitly and uncontroversially assumed in a 1919 bulletin of the Association where the general goal of promoting " the exact study of our literature which the English Association has at its heart " is simply stated as self-evident . |
| 15 | Everything else must either be explicitly held in abeyance or overtly assumed for present purposes ( the ceteris paribus or etcetera clause in science ) . |
| 16 | The answer to that of course is ‘ no ’ ; because honour , pride and ego are always assumed to be male . |
| 17 | Max Jacob and Modigliani were always assumed to be good friends ; they had a great deal in common . |
| 18 | Note that regimental champions ( Bosses ) are always assumed to be armed and equipped exactly as the rank and file members of their regiment . |
| 19 | Note that regimental champions are always assumed to be armed and equipped in exactly the same way as the rank and file members of the regiment . |
| 20 | In addition to this , the head of the household is almost always assumed to be the man in the household , even if the wife is working . |
| 21 | His voice had a sarcastic edge to it , once assumed for the benefit or otherwise of his students , and now its permanent tone . |
| 22 | Ancestral origins from different geographical regions , however , are still assumed to be important in understanding pupil needs . |
| 23 | Labour topped the poll and won more than half the wards in the tier of local government usually assumed to be a Conservative stronghold . |
| 24 | So there 's often a contradiction as to whether programmes are addressed to their actual or potential audiences or to a hypothetical audience , which in current affairs and news broadcasts is usually assumed to be a male viewer . |
| 25 | Loss of the nuptial pads is usually assumed to be a consequence of mating on land because , in other frogs and toads , their function appears to be to help the male to grip onto the female 's slippery back while mating in water . |
| 26 | Since Bentham 's position is usually assumed to be rigorist , it is worth pointing out that his main formulations , such as we have described above , seem to be non-rigorist . |
| 27 | Similarly the south gate is usually assumed to be at the end of Southgate Street where an internal street points in the direction of Boley Hill ; the existence of a cemetery in this region outside the walls would support this assumption . |
| 28 | The missing actor is usually assumed to be the writer . |
| 29 | No new equity was issued in 1992 to fund operations , and neither is any assumed in our forward plans . |
| 30 | Although the figure of the earth-mother pales in time ( receiving a last fitful refulgence in the West in 1950 when she was proclaimed bodily assumed into heaven by Pope Pius XII ) , she nevertheless remained a permanent part of the polytheistic pantheons which evolved first of all during the Neolithic period . |