Example sentences of "[verb] assumed that [art] " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , JPAC has assumed that the number of consultant posts will consistently increase by over 4% a year .
2 In this particular drawing the forecaster has assumed that the future is going to be almost the same as the present ( at least in the characteristics he is depicting ) .
3 Why should we have assumed that a little thing like a gunfight in the street would attract attention ?
4 If he was acquainted with Smith 's work he would naturally have assumed that the French Academy knew it too , and that the point of the competition was to fill in the details of Smith 's proof .
5 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 .
6 The third parties could not have assumed that the Council was acting on behalf of member States .
7 Given 20 numbers to use , subjects may have assumed that the quantity the experimenter was interested in must vary in some way , if their own feelings did not , they may simply have based their responses on aspects of the environment which did vary , e.g. their speed , proximity to other vehicles etc .
8 Like many scientists , campaigners at Friends of the Earth in London ( including the author ) had assumed that the absence of strong evidence for forest decline in Britain might be due to a combination of climate ( moist conditions good for growing trees ) coupled with the possibility that magnesium in rain coming in from the sea might counteract leaching by acid rain .
9 Thus Beveridge had assumed that the elimination of poverty was integrally linked to policies for health , education , housing and town planning , and full employment .
10 For most of his life , doctors had assumed that the man was incapable of making his own insulin in the cells of his pancreas .
11 Channel 7 had assumed that the codes for accountants and solicitors were ‘ very much the same ’ and , said Mr Hyde , they had not received any indication from the Institute that a problem existed .
12 And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla .
13 Up to a dozen viewers had heard my throwaway remarks and had assumed that the party at Frenchay really would be out in the street .
14 Whereas Barlow and Abercrombie had assumed that the problem was distribution of population and employment ; the issue for the 1960s was also growth .
15 He had come to like and trust Lorton ; he had assumed that the feeling was reciprocated .
16 If we had assumed that the expected level of prices was P 1 and had drawn the relationship between the general level of prices and aggregate output on that assumption we would have drawn the short-run aggregate supply curve as an upward-sloping line which cuts the vertical line from y n at P 1 .
17 Just that she had assumed that the booking had been made for him and someone else .
18 From the taut state of her stomach muscles and the general pain she seemed to be in , they had assumed that an ulcer had burst in her stomach .
19 In this article , I have assumed that a band has reached this second stage by being offered a recording contract .
20 We have assumed that a pivot exists for both the up-problem and the down-problem ( as was the case in P1*/LP0 ) so that both up- and down-penalties are defined .
21 Some critics , arguing from the cases of Blake and Keats , have assumed that a ‘ Romantic ’ poet would obviously be hostile to the demands of a university dominated by the influence of Newton .
22 Up until this point we have assumed that a referential locus is quite generally available for property words , not only adjectives in fact but also adverbs : ( 8 ) Philippa comforted her lovingly the referential locus of the adverb is that of the verb ; and the referential locus of the verb in turn is the entity of the subject phrase ; that is why a sentence like : ( 9 ) the drink comforted her lovingly is unacceptable , despite the fact that lovingly can co-occur with comfort , while comfort is compatible with drink .
23 We have assumed that an unemployed individual must either continue being unemployed or become employed ; withdrawing from the labour force is not an option .
24 In making this judgement , I have assumed that an encyclopedia has to meet three essential criteria : it should be easy to use ; have a wide coverage ; and be both accurate and up-to-date .
25 In constructing the scheme we have assumed that the division of surplus-value between unproductive consumption and accumulation would be 50 per cent each ; and also that the unproductively consumed part would be divided in the same proportions as Marx used .
26 We have assumed that the demand for money depends directly on national income and inversely on the rate of interest , and that the supply of money is exogenous .
27 Actually , this is a bit optimistic because we have assumed that the material will go on obeying Hooke 's law right up to failure .
28 I have assumed that the journey is made in a private car , principally following main motor roads but with many deviations and detours to places of special interest .
29 Some scholars have assumed that the Minoans worshipped a Great Goddess , the Mediterranean ‘ Magna Mater ’ , and that they later divided her up into a series of more specialized divinities .
30 In writing this book we have assumed that the reader either owns or has access to copies of both Warhammer and Warhammer Battle Magic .
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