Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] assumed [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one ever asked me to do so — though everyone has since assumed that , for all eternity , it will be my round of drinks . ) |
| 2 | The careful exegete , however , will also be troubled by the fact that the Bible hardly majors on this issue , that we do not know the context of Paul 's two references to the subject , and that a strong anti-homosexual line is only possible if one has already assumed that such statements are immediately transferable into our situation straight from the biblical period . |
| 3 | Research into technological innovation has generally assumed that although shifts have occurred they have been within a stable organisational framework . |
| 4 | Eckmire , anxious to be seen to be supportive of the departing champion , added : ‘ Our sponsorship position has always assumed that Nigel would be driving for Williams next year and we echo the British public 's sentiments . ’ |
| 5 | It is exactly this assumption , however , that shows the extent to which Western society is indistinguishable from all other cultures , for each , according to Lévi-Strauss , has always assumed that it represents the full meaning and significance of human society : |
| 6 | The industry has always assumed that the birds recover quickly , but research by Dr Michael Gentle , of Edinburgh 's Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research , has shown that the animals experience chronic pain for weeks or months afterwards . |
| 7 | The discussion so far has implicitly assumed that both the long and the short legs of the spread involve an equal number of contracts . |
| 8 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 9 | Barbara it 's , I 'd always assumed that people were probable born with asthma , but that 's not , not the case ? |
| 10 | She 'd automatically assumed that it was from Ryan , only of course it was n't , and if she had been thinking rationally before she would have known it could n't possibly have been from him . |
| 11 | Added to this , at the time of retrieval subjects may have simply assumed that since this was an experiment about risk , the experimenter really wanted them to recall the risky situations . |
| 12 | She had not reflected upon what , alone , she would be , had perhaps assumed that she would sit motionless as a statue with vacant eyes . |
| 13 | Which she foolishly assumed would be easy , because she had foolishly assumed that Irish villages were like English ones . |
| 14 | I had foolishly assumed that the opportunity would be taken to eliminate a particularly hazardous S-bend and install a roundabout in its place thus easing the flow of the many cars , buses and lorries which use the road . |
| 15 | I had just assumed that the only possible commentary game was West Ham vs Us. 8thvs9th or 2ndvs10 ? ? |
| 16 | In her fantasies Phoebe had somehow assumed that the mammogram would be visible . |
| 17 | When she 'd learned that Ben and Carole Meadows were staying at their beach-front cottage Laura had somehow assumed that it would be a very small , modest building . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've always assumed that the country has enough water but the shortages of the last three or four years have shown this is not the case , ’ said Dr Neil Johnston , author of the report . |
| 19 | I I 've always assumed that that meant that it would be such a tremendous lever for the enemy to hold someone like that . |
| 20 | I 've always assumed that that was it , that erm , I do n't know . |
| 21 | She had always assumed that something would happen , sometime , to sweep away her marital comfort . |
| 22 | Henry had always assumed that this was due , on her part , to an entirely natural physical repugnance for him ; she moved away from him as one might move away from a bad smell or a dangerous horse . |
| 23 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 24 | I had always assumed that this sort of civilized dismay at barbarism was the monopoly of our cause . |
| 25 | Knowing the King , as he believed , Nicholas had always assumed that now , through his placing at table , Zacco would take his chance to belittle in public this favoured commander who had failed to give him his kingdom as promised . |
| 26 | Hers was not a type of female beauty which attracted him and he had always assumed that she was physically cold . |
| 27 | I had always assumed that this song was either fictional or referred to events long ago , and Ricks ' talk contained nothing to contradict this . |
| 28 | AS a regular reader of Rugby World & Post , I had always assumed that your Postbag items were selected to instruct , inform , amuse or provoke constructive debate . |
| 29 | In her innocence , Constance had always assumed that it was an activity that took place in bed . |
| 30 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |