Example sentences of "[adv] assumed that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which she foolishly assumed would be easy , because she had foolishly assumed that Irish villages were like English ones . |
| 2 | It had been too easily assumed that strong representation by teachers through their unions ( which usually meant representation by powerful and semi-professional members who spent little time in class-rooms ) would somehow guarantee the active interest and participation of large numbers of ordinary teachers . |
| 3 | Everybody just assumed that that 's what they were playing . |
| 4 | It is generally assumed that international forces have a great influence on the UK so that it is the international economy which determines the character of the crossroads now facing the UK . |
| 5 | Lampreys and hagfishes lack a differentiated stomach , and it is generally assumed that all agnathans were similarly microphagous with no need for a stomach . |
| 6 | Myths abound in the heroin community as to the meaning of ‘ notification ’ and ‘ registration ’ and it is generally assumed that all ‘ official ’ agencies are in league with one another . |
| 7 | It is generally assumed that all spreadsheets will benefit from fast calculation but this is n't necessarily so . |
| 8 | It is generally assumed that endogenous LH release occurs IS -20 h after the midpoint of the second dark period following PMSG administration . |
| 9 | It 's generally assumed that those who forego the pleasures of the flesh are elderly , but a report in the American Journal of Psychiatry reveals that 75pc are under the age of 38 . |
| 10 | It is generally assumed that both texts on British Library Additional MS 23986 are preserved there as fragments of longer originals , and this is certainly true of the Anglo-Norman ballad first written on the roll . |
| 11 | Although the calculations available in the literature have very largely assumed that direct files are loaded using two passes , there are a number of cases in which a one-pass load occurs in practice . |
| 12 | The careful exegete , however , will also be troubled by the fact that the Bible hardly majors on this issue , that we do not know the context of Paul 's two references to the subject , and that a strong anti-homosexual line is only possible if one has already assumed that such statements are immediately transferable into our situation straight from the biblical period . |
| 13 | It is normally assumed that this reconstruction will not result in long-term unemployment of resources , or worse , permanent under-utilisation of resources in some sectors . |
| 14 | First , although it was always assumed that many from the older urban cores would be rehoused in the new towns , early evidence ( Heraud , 1966 ) shows that it tended to be the better-housed suburbanites who moved , few from the inner cities even knowing of the programme . |
| 15 | I I 've always assumed that that meant that it would be such a tremendous lever for the enemy to hold someone like that . |
| 16 | I 've always assumed that that was it , that erm , I do n't know . |
| 17 | It was always assumed that Urban Programme funding would represent only a proportion of total expenditure in the Partnerships — most would come through a diversion of mainstream budgets to the benefit of the older urban cores . |
| 18 | However , I have always assumed that public nuisance was primarily concerned with the effect of the act complained of as opposed to its inherent lawfulness or unlawfulness . |
| 19 | Henry had always assumed that this was due , on her part , to an entirely natural physical repugnance for him ; she moved away from him as one might move away from a bad smell or a dangerous horse . |
| 20 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 21 | I had always assumed that this sort of civilized dismay at barbarism was the monopoly of our cause . |
| 22 | I had always assumed that this song was either fictional or referred to events long ago , and Ricks ' talk contained nothing to contradict this . |
| 23 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 24 | It was further assumed that passive negative sentences were constructed by the application of two transformational rules ( passive and negative ) . |
| 25 | The sense of urgency conveyed by the ‘ Look out ’ indicates the expectation that the pram , complete with baby , will fall over the cliff and perhaps be dashed on the rocks beneath and it is further assumed that this will be-deleterious for the baby . |
| 26 | For example , hearing impairments provide a common aetiology for linguistic difficulties among deaf children and for this reason it is usually assumed that deaf children will respond to therapy in similar ways . |
| 27 | It is usually assumed that this is a deficiency in the enzymes ( see p 18 ) that detoxify foreign chemicals . |
| 28 | It was mistakenly assumed that this trend represented a return to more traditional literary values ; an examination of such works reveals a postmodernist contestation of the conventional boundaries between genres and an intertextual mixture of writings , of which the fragmented subjectivity of the writer was itself a discourse capable of being plundered in order to generate text . |
| 29 | 1 patient proved positive but because the patient was an injection drug user undergoing lymph-node biopsy it was reasonably assumed that this was not an occupational exposure . |
| 30 | Although it has been traditionally assumed that Labour Governments are more susceptible to defeat in the Lords than Conservative administrations , Brazier concludes that the Lords have been surprisingly even-handed in dealing out legislative defeats . |