Example sentences of "assumed [that] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Sir Thomas and I assumed that distance and the fickleness of youth would take care of the matter , ’ continued Elizabeth Mowbray . |
| 2 | Far from extending Darwinian gradualism , the scientists who tried to reconstruct the past had returned to a theory of history that assumed that progress took place through a series of distinct episodes , representing the rise and fall of groups that evolved in parallel rather than in sequence . |
| 3 | More to the point is that the Discourse indicates the scientism of the period : it is taken for granted by the lecturer that Turner ought to paint a tree of a recognizable species , for example , and assumed that portrait painters are after an exact likeness . |
| 4 | They merely assumed that inhibition generates the incest taboo without pointing to any behavioural mechanism that could translate one into the other . |
| 5 | But once adaptation to the new conditions had been achieved , Darwin assumed that evolution would come to a halt . |
| 6 | The first book was a novel about nurses in the Second World War , a pair of lovers in a training hospital — Boy assumed that Madame had lived though this . |
| 7 | They assumed that wealth was automatically there , and that the task of politics was simply to take from the wrong people and give it to the right ones . |
| 8 | It was the second Unionist lever against Home Rule that helped to involve the King , for it assumed that Home Rule would become law , would be repudiated in Ulster , and that then the army would refuse to enforce it . |
| 9 | Anthropologists , in tracing the evolution of Homo sapiens from more primitive quadruped simian species , assumed that bipedalism facilitated the free use of hands from their role in locomotion . |
| 10 | Taking note , AT&T assumed that success in one business meant success in the other . |
| 11 | It assumed that pursuit of that goal is conducive to the maximisation of wealth overall : profit maximisation leads to the most efficient use of scarce resources and the greatest satisfaction of human wants . |
| 12 | Injustice to these treatises , however , it must be said that at least in antiquity they rarely assumed that style was automatically improved through the use of ornament . |
| 13 | Following on from Cannon ( 1947 ) most psychologists assumed that drive was simply bodily discomfort brought about by the deprivation state and that drive reduction was due to eliminating this discomfort . |
| 14 | In all probability , the author did not know who was responsible for the original compilation : he merely assumed that legislation was an appropriate activity for the founder of a kingdom . |
| 15 | However , he assumed that capitalism could not finally achieve an integrated world , that the bourgeoisie could never transcend nationality . |
| 16 | I assumed that Engineering department 's approval had been conveyed internally to Mr. , particularly since the letter makes specific reference to our site meeting ( why else would he mention it ? ) . |
| 17 | Members of the nursing profession , who once assumed that training for registration would equip them for a career in nursing now realise that this is no longer the case . |
| 18 | Olson assumed that interest groups are primarily organized to secure ‘ public goods ’ , i.e. collective benefits or indivisible products available to all relevant people . |
| 19 | The model with stochastic interest rates assumed that interest rates followed a mean-reverting process , and that the correlation between changes in interest rates and changes in spot prices was zero ( which is questionable ) . |
| 20 | This commercial imperialism was reflected in the liberal social evolutionism of the philosopher Herbert Spencer ( 1820–1903 ) , which assumed that laissez-faire individualism would spread around the world by simply demonstrating its efficiency as an economic system . |
| 21 | The budget assumed that GDP would grow by between 0 and 3 per cent in 1993 , the first increase since 1989 ; that unemployment , which reached 11.9 per cent of the labour force in November , would remain high ; and that inflation , which had fallen from 38.6 per cent to 20.1 per cent from mid-year 1991 to 1992 , would level off at around 21 per cent . |
| 22 | As recently as last July , when President Gorbachev addressed the Council of Europe , the Soviet leader assumed that socialism could be preserved throughout Eastern Europe . |