Example sentences of "[adv] assumed [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was generally assumed among the pupils that our teachers , being women , would have preferred to be fully sexual , childbearing beings . |
| 2 | This approach assumed a degree of consensus within the family which was not assumed to the same extent in any other social institution . |
| 3 | for approximate computational purposes it is normally assumed in the western world that a full working year is no more than 200 man-days . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His voice had a sarcastic edge to it , once assumed for the benefit or otherwise of his students , and now its permanent tone . |
| 6 | Knowledge is also assumed in the functional views of language described in 3 . |
| 7 | It is also assumed by the Act that any difference of opinion over the running of the partnership 's ordinary business will be decided by a simple majority of the partners , although any change in the nature of the firm 's business requires unanimity . |
| 8 | Moreover , the importance which EEC law has now assumed in the UK would suggest that a book on UK statutory interpretation should deal with how EEC regulations should be interpreted , when directives have direct effect and so on . |
| 9 | Fast word-by-word recognition was often assumed as the basis of the model . |
| 10 | The first is problematic in the light of the theory that living organisms ‘ see ’ with their eyes ; the second was problematic for the supporters of Galileo 's theories because it clashed with the ‘ force of a vacuum ’ theory accepted by them as an explanation of why the mercury does not fall from a barometer tube ; the third was problematic for Roentgen because it was tacitly assumed at the time that no radiation or emanation of any kind existed that could penetrate the container of the photographic plates and darken them ; the fourth was problematic because it was incompatible with Newton 's theory . |
| 11 | Second , individuals rarely have the control over their work-hours that is typically assumed in the theoretical literature . |
| 12 | Originally this quality was an attribute of the gods and then assumed by the king . |
| 13 | One of the duties occasionally assumed by the guilds was the maintenance of a charnel , a subterranean chamber into which were placed the bones of the dead disturbed when interments took place in the churchyard . |
| 14 | It was therefore assumed in the culture that there were ‘ universals ’ and that it was the universal , rather than particular instances of that universal , which could be said most truly to exist . |