Example sentences of "[adv] assumed that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They merely assumed that inhibition generates the incest taboo without pointing to any behavioural mechanism that could translate one into the other . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Do n't misunderstand me , I did n't think the city would be backward , I just assumed that carriages would be as popular with tourists in London as they are , say in New York . |
| 5 | Do n't misunderstand me , I did n't think the city would be backward , I just assumed that carriages would be as popular with tourists in London as they are , say in New York . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They missed Delmonico 's by only a few blocks geographically but far more gastronomically — or so Maxim assumed since he also assumed that Delmonico 's did n't specialise in hamburgers and tuna sandwiches for the decorators working on the shop next door . |
| 8 | Ellen and I both assumed that Sweetman 's interest in Wavebreaker had been merely that of a prospective charterer who wanted to reconnoitre the boat 's amenities . |