Example sentences of "assumed [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As head of CI5 , Cowley had assumed the responsibility for the protection of the Colonel , a guest in the country . |
| 2 | Aziz characterized the Gulf war as a " pan-Arab battle in which Iraq had assumed the responsibility of defending pan-Arab security as well as the Gulf region in particular " . |
| 3 | On this occasion she had assumed the dress and name of a working girl , Miss Jane Warton . |
| 4 | John Young , a larger-than-life figure , had automatically assumed the Princess would sit in the Royal Box , and had sold tickets in the belief that everyone in the theatre would have a view of the Princess . |
| 5 | I understand there was some kind of rift and Mr Swinton is not recognized by his brothers , the eldest of whom has now assumed the baronetcy . |
| 6 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 7 | In other words , he has assumed the throne of the Kingdom . |
| 8 | Jaramillo had assumed the presidency of the UP following the assassination of its previous leader Jaime Pardo Leal in October 1987 [ see 35755 ] . |
| 9 | In his inaugural speech , Lee , who had first assumed the presidency in 1988 following the death of Chiang Ching-kuo , gave only a vague outline of the policies to be pursued during his six-year term . |
| 10 | In January 1990 the Irish Foreign Minister Gerard Collins visited Yugoslavia , Ireland having assumed the presidency of the European Community ( EC ) Council of Ministers in that month . |
| 11 | The ninth conference of the Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) Foreign Ministers was held in Rabat , Morocco , on July 22-23 , Morocco having assumed the chairmanship of the AMU Presidential Council on July 1 . |
| 12 | However , this remarkable literary work — even given an army of fans as keen as his niece — would not have brought in very much income , nor would the journalism , and it was to be assumed the trust provided the rest . |
| 13 | The club had assumed the money was not a loan anyway but a contribution . |
| 14 | At West Kensington Lee wanted to get out on to the roof and sledge to Gloucester Road but Dean , who had assumed the position of expert adviser , said he was n't sure about the tunnels . |
| 15 | ‘ The journalist ’ the Baptist James Owen declared in 1890 , ‘ the reviewer , the historian , the essayist have assumed the sceptre which the teacher in the pulpit long ago wielded . ’ |
| 16 | Although surprisingly few of our colleagues have died ‘ in the field ’ , it is nonetheless fitting that field-work should have assumed the character of a tribal ordeal or initiation rite the performance of which , under appropriate conditions , is virtually indispensable if one is to gain professional status . |
| 17 | As a result of this potent combination of sentiment and self-interest , the war had assumed the character of something more than a military operation : in the minds of the military and of many civilians , left and right , it had quickly become a decisive test of France 's national will and international power . |
| 18 | Crown Prince Harald , who had assumed the monarch 's official duties since his father 's stroke in June 1990 , was sworn in as King Harald V on Jan. 21 . |
| 19 | I think you 've assumed the answer to my question which was going to be to , addressed to Mr . |
| 20 | If Edward Carrington had assumed the process would be quick or easy , he was quickly disabused . |
| 21 | Dressed casually , he seemed to have assumed the personality of someone altogether warmer and more approachable , even human . |
| 22 | The Germans , indeed , had been so confused by British musketry that they had assumed the enemy was equipped with a plethora of machine-guns . |
| 23 | In certain instances rights to the throne were strengthened by a theory of divine birth , in which a ruler claimed to the child of a sacred marriage between a god , who had assumed the form of the king , and the queen . |
| 24 | As far as I could gather , Nour 's father had taken on responsibility for all his sisters , married or not , and for their offspring , and since his death Marie Claire had assumed the burden . |
| 25 | However , if a review is to be assumed the tenant should ensure that the notional review coincides with the actual review under the headlease , otherwise there may be periods when the headtenant 's profit rent is eroded . |
| 26 | The mine 's formal closure was a severe blow to the country 's economy as it was estimated to provide up to 20 per cent of government revenue and some 40 per cent of the country 's export earnings ; in formulating the 1990 budget , the government had assumed the mine 's reopening by the end of 1989 . |
| 27 | Hopefully , the Fox and Hedley Walton cases will encourage the executors of land-owning taxpayers to fight over-valuation , which has often assumed the status of a national scandal . |
| 28 | While the criticism that Lévi-Strauss , structuralism emphasizes the synchronic at the expense of the diachronic has assumed the status of a critical truism , this in fact repeats the substance of his critique of Sartre , namely that the latter attempted to transform history into a space of synchronicity . |
| 29 | In a letter to Suger , Robert of Montfalcon declared that a case over whether or not a certain man was his serf should be tried either in the royal court or before the archbishop of Bourges , provided that the proceedings were in accordance with the customs of Bourges ; for him , the consuetudines of his native town had assumed the status of a law binding on outside authorities . |
| 30 | Her fear at what was about to happen assumed the image of one black ogre , defeated instantly by the joy of feeling the strength of his body against hers , conscious of the sureness , the confidence , the single-mindedness of his wanting . |