Example sentences of "it was assumed that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was assumed that projects exist either with easily specified cash flows or with easily specified underlying factors which give rise to those cash flows . |
| 2 | It was assumed that shareholders would have a long-term commitment to their company and that if there was a problem , it would be the directors rather than the shareholders who would change . |
| 3 | Only the unmarried mother was given specific mention ; for the rest it was assumed that women would follow their husbands . |
| 4 | Until now it was assumed that sites deep underground provided a stable environment for buried waste . |
| 5 | It was assumed that schools would be using the materials and theme for about twelve periods a week for six weeks , as Miss Garnett noted : " This is probably as long as the steam stays in a theme for this age , and nobody should feel embarrassed about pulling out of it quicker if it seems right to do so " ( Leicester/Leicestershire Curriculum Development Project 1970 : I ) . |
| 6 | Until such pioneers as Marjorie Warren began to demonstrate otherwise in the 1930s , it was assumed that victims of strokes , for example , were incapable of rehabilitation . |
| 7 | It was assumed that parishes , very largely the agricultural villages of the southern and eastern cereal regions , who were using Speenhamland-like systems of poor relief , had placed themselves on a vicious spiral of soaring poor rates and were progressively increasing the very poverty they sought to relieve . |