The phrase "appears to be assuming" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's beliefs or conclusions that seem to be based on certain assumptions.
Example: "The report appears to be assuming that all participants have prior experience, which may not be the case."
Alternatives: "seems to be presuming" or "looks to be taking for granted".
The IPCC appears to be assuming that we haven't yet reached the critical mass of knowledge where science will galvanise action, so it produces one report after another.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin has been more restrained, avoiding a hashtag war, but has sounded similar notes, while former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida appears to be assuming the role of the adult in the room, warning his party not to overreach, because of what he called the "dicey" politics.
Conrad, somewhat morbidly, appears to be assuming in his whip count that two members of the caucus, Sens. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass).
Obama's team appears to be assuming that passing any sort of healthcare reform bill will be seen as a giant political victory (no matter what it contains), and that most voters simply aren't paying as close attention as those crazed Lefty bloggers, and that they'll all rally around when it comes time to vote next year (and in 2012).
Nevertheless, in the absence of the side chain carboxylate of E90, the charge complementation of R6G appears to be assumed appreciably by dipole-charge interactions mediated by the side chain oxygen atoms of Q64 and Q96, located within 3.0 and 3.5 Å of the R6G N2 and N1 ethyl amino nitrogen atoms, respectively.
For these cases, the specific evolutionary scenarios giving rise to the Alu-derived exons are quite well documented, but the protein coding potential of the Alu-exons appears to be assumed.
The regulation of the self-renewal, differentiation, and migration of mammary stem cells and their progenitors that are localized in the mammary glands appears to be assumed through distinct developmental signalling pathways such as hormones, EGF, hedgehog, Wnt/β-catenin, Notch, and Bmi-1.
Participants in the renewed talks appeared to be assuming that Mr. Kaczynski will be found competent.
In the meantime, investors appear to be assuming that elevated prices are here to stay.
The Fed appeared to be assuming that Citigroup had around $96 billion of mortgages, since $9.3 billion is 9.7 percent of $96 billion.
In other words, they appear to be assuming they will lose before the vendor selection process is even completed.
