Example sentences of "[noun] assume [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coalition was the negation of the party system , for as party assumed a grouping from the centre to one of the extremes , coalition assumed a grouping at the centre to the exclusion of extremists . |
| 2 | A load of camera gear assumes a life of its own , swinging round at awkward moments , trying to catch you off balance and topple you over the edge . |
| 3 | Brunei assumed the chair of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) in mid-1988 , as a result of which the annual Foreign Ministers ' meeting was held in Bandar Seri Begawan in July 1989 [ see p. 36817 ] . |
| 4 | Seth 's thin lips assumed a configuration that might have passed for a smile . |
| 5 | From its outset , Operation Barbarossa assumed a class character , and it quickly escalated into a ‘ war of hatred ’ . |
| 6 | Fernando Manfredo assumed the post of acting administrator of the Panama Canal on Jan. 1 , 1990 , in succession to Gen. ( retd ) Dennis P. McAuliffe , who had held the post since 1979 . |
| 7 | In effect the exporter assumes the role of a buyer and has to market the counter-purchased goods . |
| 8 | In a reshuffle on July 14 , 1990 , Maj. Osvaldo Lopes da Silva was replaced as Minister of Transport , Trade and Tourism by Omar Lima , and Pires assumed the Defence portfolio from Maj. Julio de Carvalho , who was hitherto prominent in the party leadership . |
| 9 | Such reasoning assumed the centrality of the sun . |
| 10 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 11 | The majestic Schönbrunn and Belvedere Castles assume the attention of artists great and amateur , and locals sip coffee in timeworn cafés . |
| 12 | Monoculture assumes the domination of the single majority culture : that ‘ they ’ will be subsumed into ‘ us ’ . |
| 13 | Jim assumed a look of mock innocence . |
| 14 | A constitutional amendment was approved abolishing the State Council and providing for the election of a State President ; on an interim basis , Bergmann-Pohl assumed the post of acting head of state on April 9 ( replacing Manfred Gerlach who had held the post since December 1989 — see p. 37108 ) . |
| 15 | — after death the heart assumes the shape of a pyramid . |
| 16 | Planning Minister Paulo Haddad assumed the Economy and Finance portfolio in addition to his own following the resignation on Dec. 16 of Gustavo Krause after only two months in office [ for his appointment see p. 39139 , where his surname is wrongly given as Kraus ] . |
| 17 | Japanese for Business & Travel is an introduction to Japanese ( the course assumes the pupil has no prior knowledge ) and is composed of questions about vocabulary , grammar and culture . |
| 18 | If the surety is a customer or if the creditor assumes the röle of advisor , it may be that the creditor will be found to have owed a contractual or tortious duty of care to the surety . |
| 19 | Of course , transmitting values through the curriculum assumes a degree of consensus , the existence of which is questionable in a pluralist society . |
| 20 | If the left hand end of the line is fixed by the co-ordinates of Bishops Cannings church , then the angle it makes with its horizontal base assumes a value , which we shall call angle ‘ a ’ . |
| 21 | How and why sport assumes the status of a central life interest for black kids are the questions I set out to answer in chapter eight . |
| 22 | Ali Kafi assumed the position of president of the High Committee of State ( HCS ) on July 2 , following the assassination of Mohammed Boudiaf three days earlier [ see also p. 38981 ] . |
| 23 | Panic assumed the Defence portfolio and gave Minister without Portfolio Ljubisa Rakic responsibility for co-ordinating the government 's international activities . |
| 24 | The Rev E P Tompson was the first Chairman of its Executive Committee and in that capacity led the work forward to the point at which it was accepted as the youth club arm of Scripture Union , and a member of the SU Council assumed the chair . |
| 25 | An elected National Development Council ( CND ) , which in 1986 drafted a national charter to serve as the basis for a new Constitution , was superseded by a National Assembly elected in December 1989 , when the CND assumed the role of an economic and social council . |
| 26 | It was not till 1879 , however , that the Portadown Circuit assumed the form familiar over the years : Thomas Street , Edenderry ( services took place in the Tabernacle before the first church was built ) , Edgarstown , Mahon , Battlehill , Scotch Street , Derryanville , Derryall , Ballinary and Cloncore . |
| 27 | Alexander assumed the throne of Montenegro in 1918 when the French government , in league with the Serbian , refused to allow the old man to go back to Montenegro after his wartime exile in France . |
| 28 | French radio already does it , and there are numerous other examples of countries assuming a derogation from EC law . |
| 29 | As the constitutional authorities gradually detach themselves from wholehearted support for our system of democracy so they envisage the judges assuming a role of extended significance in defending liberty and in checking what they regard as the misuse of political power . |
| 30 | This is where intellectual quandaries arise , complicated by piecemeal evidence leading paleontologists to assume a variety of combinations of thermoregulation . |