Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] assumed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first six months of my mother 's pregnancy , I was assumed to be indigestion . |
| 2 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 3 | Still , the limping aircraft , which were assumed to be carrying arms , were not challenged . |
| 4 | A Labour Party spokesman said the Opposition accepted the principle of expatriate voting , but disapproved of ‘ disproportionate ’ Government effort and expense devoted to ‘ chasing ’ overseas voters who were assumed to be Tories . |
| 5 | There was assumed to be a counterpart in human events to every celestial phenomenon . |
| 6 | The Home Office sent a detective to report on the movements of ‘ the French people ’ — they were assumed to be foreign as they did not have a Somerset accent . |
| 7 | Now they were assumed to be — well , gay , but not in the sense he acknowledged . |
| 8 | He was disappearing regularly into the bowels of the City to meet various moneypersons , all of whom were assumed to be faintly threatening male chauvinists . |
| 9 | Added to this was an acceptance of liberal Victorian culture to such a degree that it was assumed to be as eternal as the gospel itself . |
| 10 | Until recently it was assumed to be a flattened axisymmetric spheroid ( that is , one which is round in the plane of the Galaxy ) . |
| 11 | The investigator also plans to follow up a finding that having perfected the distinction between meaning and message , children may come to view reality in a new way : incoming information can be construed as offering clues about reality , whereas before it was assumed to be reality . |
| 12 | Until March he was assumed to be a reliable , if conservative , servant of the president . |