Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] assume that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another point worth stating is that early attempts at curve fitting tended to assume that plant growth was determined by a single autocatalytic chemical reaction , an over-simplification . |
| 2 | In setting up his assignment at the University of Alabama , Donleavy had assumed that Coleman would return to Cyprus with Mary-Claude and Sarah in February 1988 , but analysing the personal histories of foreign scholars produced such interesting results that the DIA several times postponed his departure . |
| 3 | A generation or so ago , New Critics and Scrutineers did assume that scrupulosity and rigour were selfjustifying ends in criticism . |
| 4 | Where an earlier generation of natural theologians had assumed that Nature would heal itself , Marsh emphasized that some acts of destruction exceeded the earth 's recuperative powers : |
| 5 | By an act of faith that spanned one and a half centuries , Ralph had assumed that Whitstable grocer must be the lineal descendant of the Protestant rebel . |
| 6 | This came as something of a surprise since most people had assumed that SIB , as the recognising authority , was exercising some sort of supervisory control . |
| 7 | Alina had assumed that Belov was taking her to another of the buildings , but it seemed now that he was going to lead her out of the settlement altogether . |
| 8 | But someone like Vera Brittain was only just beginning to explore the problem of ‘ how a married woman without being inordinately rich , can have children and yet maintain her intellectual and spiritual independence ’ in the years following World War I. The small number of married women who pursued an active public life between the wars continued to assume that home and family were part of their natural responsibilities and solved the problem — as women with as diverse political views as Brittain and Violet Markham recognised — through the employment of domestic servants . |
| 9 | In advance of the operation , the Americans had assumed that Giraud 's prestige in French North Africa would clear the way to a rapid ceasefire . |
| 10 | British ministers had assumed that Bonn 's preoccupation with the situation in East Germany might lead it to oppose any move to begin drawing up a new treaty for European monetary union . |