Example sentences of "assume that the [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downs assumed that the public was aware of the costs of public goods and services in terms of taxation . |
| 2 | No reply came , and he assumed that the minister was of the same cold fashion as his wife . |
| 3 | Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life . |
| 4 | Certainly , the Americans assumed that the victory was won ; ‘ Not even on the horizon , ’ remarked Marcus Loew in 1926 , ‘ can I see the nucleus of a British film-producing industry . ’ |
| 5 | If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk . |
| 6 | He , of course , assumed that the earth was the hub of the universe , and also that the cosmos was controlled by celestial beings , rather like the living beings or cherubim of Ezekiel . |
| 7 | For several decades most scientists assumed that the discrepancy was too negligible to worry about : after all , no one said that everything in the Universe should work perfectly . |
| 8 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
| 9 | We may assume that the caution was in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 10 | I think we can safely assume that the statuette was washed and wiped clean after the event . ’ |
| 11 | Parents may have opted for the test , however , and , hearing nothing more , might assume that the result was normal . |
| 12 | At later real times , the universe would expand like the chaotic inflationary model proposed by Linde ( but one would not now have to assume that the universe was created somehow in the right sort of state ) . |
| 13 | None of the six we tested included an invoice for the sample , nor have any , at the time of writing , sent one on later so it 's pretty safe to assume that the trial was free . |
| 14 | In the case of a matrimonial home which does not have registered title , it would seem to be accepted practice to assume that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase , so that all the husband 's solicitors need to abstract to the wife 's solicitors is the conveyance to the husband , any mortgage , any " sales-off " ( or other transactions affecting the title ) , and details of the covenants affecting the property . |
| 15 | It is quite reasonable for a purchaser to assume that a vendor who sells land for a particular purpose will not do anything to prevent its being used for that purpose , but it would be utterly unreasonable to assume that the vendor was undertaking restrictive obligations which would prevent his using land retained by him for any lawful purpose whatsoever … |
| 16 | On the one hand papal taxation was preserving them from Edward 's attentions , except for customary feudal dues and prerogative levies ; it is safe to assume that the laity were adapting readily to the notion of leaving the tax burden , or as much of it as they could , to the clergy . |
| 17 | In order to keep the example simple , assume that the gymnasium was built and paid for in cash within a year . |
| 18 | If that child gets higher marks this year than last , then we assume that the examination was ‘ easier ’ , and we remove some of the questions that nearly all children found easy , before next year 's examination . |
| 19 | ‘ I notice you 're all assuming that the boy was murdered . |
| 20 | And this is sort of right at the beginning , by assuming that the function was continuous when it was n't . |
| 21 | The best that can be achieved then , assuming that the guarantee was given after 11 April 1978 , is a CGT loss claim of £10,000 under s 136(4) ( 11 ) , CGTA 1979 . |
| 22 | Assuming that the system was properly balanced before , each of the original radiators has to give some flow up to the new one . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me about Illinois , Lee , ’ she invited , assuming that the figure was one of the kitchen staff . |
| 24 | In the real situation , assuming that the model was a reasonable reflection of the real-world activities , this information would be used by a variety of functional groups , and an investigation without a master checklist would be complex and potentially inaccurate . |
| 25 | For most of his life , doctors had assumed that the man was incapable of making his own insulin in the cells of his pancreas . |
| 26 | Whereas Barlow and Abercrombie had assumed that the problem was distribution of population and employment ; the issue for the 1960s was also growth . |
| 27 | It must be assumed that the title was properly investigated at the time of the purchase by the husband and wife . |
| 28 | However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness . |
| 29 | As we can not yet do all analyses on one sample , we have assumed that the mineralogy was similar to that of visually identical samples , which were indistinguishable from those reported previously from the same location ( finely intergrown siderite , Mg-calcite and iron sulphide ) . |
| 30 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |