Example sentences of "it was assumed that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Lastly , it was assumed that new powers for planning would become available , including powers for the control of land values .
2 Until recently , it was assumed that other birds rely on different clues to guide them home .
3 It was assumed that all learning could be reduced to a series of conditioned reflexes .
4 In the British Army , discipline was centred around self-discipline , and it was assumed that each man had enough self-discipline to carry out an order without being told twice .
5 In 1990 , it was assumed that each assistant would average twenty items a minute ( Cutter and Rowe 1990 ) .
6 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 .
7 The widespread nature of the process took people by surprise ; it was assumed that metropolitan growth was a permanent feature of modern society .
8 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 ’ .
9 It was assumed that any erosion terraces would show as modes in the frequency distribution .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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