Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] assumed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Morocco command was assumed by General Franco , a late but important recruit to the conspiracy , flown there from the Canaries in a plane provided by British sympathizers . |
| 2 | Earlier practice was assumed to be a group activity to which all lent potential imaginative content . |
| 3 | The culprit was assumed to be the young woman whose charred body had been trapped by the flames ; she was identified as a feminist — funny , when PopCon had been giving money and moral support to feminist groups . |
| 4 | However , in all these papers , wage determination was assumed to be exogenous . |
| 5 | With high K + solution in the bath , cell membrane voltage was assumed to be zero , and V c o m was therefore equivalent to the potential across the membrane patch in both the cell attached and inside out configurations . |
| 6 | The Economy and Tourism Minister , Georgios Souflias , left the government for three months ' sick leave on Sept. 15 and the post was assumed on Oct. 1 by the Prime Minister , Konstantinos Mitsotakis , who appointed Efthymios Christodoulou , previously the Deputy Foreign Minister for European Community affairs , as Deputy Economy Minister . |
| 7 | The reasons are simple : Quisling , a former army officer , diplomat , and minister of defence was the first of his kind ; and his bid for power , though his own idea , by coinciding with the German takeover was assumed to be part of it . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , until well into the twentieth century , the safe period was assumed to be at mid-month . |
| 9 | Coetsee 's duties as Chair of the Ministers ' Council in the House of Assembly were assumed by Amie Venter , Minister of Regional Development and State Expenditure . |
| 10 | The Conservative Party chairmanship was assumed by Sir Norman Fowler on May 10 . |
| 11 | A second barrel was opened , and a third , but some said this was n't necessary , for it was the accepted custom that if one barrel was found to be wanting , the shortage was assumed to be the same in all the rest . |
| 12 | No pornographer has ever been punished for being a woman-hater. but not too long ago information about female sexuality , contraception and abortion was assumed to be obscene . |
| 13 | Djin went back to Ghana and his role was assumed by Nathaniel Welbeck , an old associate of the president , who was a rabble-rousing speaker but no diplomat . |
| 14 | The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made . |
| 15 | The same concern was assumed to be behind a White Paper introduced in Parliament in December 1989 outlining proposed restrictions on " political activities " by religious groups . |
| 16 | The role of defending the Church was assumed by the lower clergy , their chief spokesman being Francis Atterbury . |
| 17 | Allosaurus was assumed from its long hind legs to be a kangaroo-type reptile that actually bounced on its prey . |
| 18 | The admitted fact that South America and Africa look a bit like separated pieces of a jigsaw puzzle was assumed to be just an amusing coincidence . |
| 19 | It would appear that a large part of the answer was assumed by him from the outset and without argument . |
| 20 | Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment . |
| 21 | In about 1705 Jacques 's position was assumed by his nephew , Jacques le Romain . |
| 22 | The act of shipping the barley in Maynegrain was assumed to be sufficient to amount to conversion , but the position is different where the defendant innocently interferes with P 's goods whether upon his own initiative or upon the instructions of another , when the defendant 's act amounts to nothing more than transport or custody of the goods . |
| 23 | The post of Prime Minister was assumed by Dudayev on Nov. 18 , after the current incumbent resigned , since the Council of Ministers had been disbanded . |
| 24 | Khudayyir 's position as Foreign Affairs Minister was assumed by Muhammad Said Kazim al-Sahhaf , hitherto Minister of State for Foreign Affairs . |
| 25 | The intrapatient standard deviation for this parameter was assumed to be 0.6 mmol/l . |
| 26 | He certainly held deep convictions as to the absolute wrongness of the Liberal policies that he opposed , but at least a part of his apparent hostility was assumed for the occasion , a hard line that might secure a better compromise in the end . |
| 27 | Women 's social identity was assumed by the recording authorities at the time , and still is in most historical and sociological analysis , to depend on that of their fathers and husbands . |
| 28 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |