Example sentences of "[pron] [be] assumed that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When Mrs Thatcher took office in May 1979 it was assumed that southern Africa would cause a massive rift between her and the black African states of the Commonwealth . |
| 32 | The widespread nature of the process took people by surprise ; it was assumed that metropolitan growth was a permanent feature of modern society . |
| 33 | It was assumed that spoken forms which failed to observe the rules of morphology and syntax considered appropriate to written forms were ‘ incorrect ’ and ‘ ungrammatical ’ . |
| 34 | It was assumed that any erosion terraces would show as modes in the frequency distribution . |
| 35 | Along with earlier ideas of colonisation of the landscape , it was assumed that original churches had been supplemented with additional chapels of ease as needed . |
| 36 | The late fifties and early sixties , when I lived in Windsor Great Park , were creative and critical in manner : the established order was questioned ( sometimes cynically ) , but it was assumed that well-directed idealism could change human society . |