Example sentences of "have assume the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , he has assumed the throne of the Kingdom . |
| 2 | While the criticism that Lévi-Strauss , structuralism emphasizes the synchronic at the expense of the diachronic has assumed the status of a critical truism , this in fact repeats the substance of his critique of Sartre , namely that the latter attempted to transform history into a space of synchronicity . |
| 3 | The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities has assumed the role of publisher and co-owner of the journal RES Anthropology and Aesthetics , a joint venture with Harvard University 's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd assumed the letter was identical in each case . |
| 5 | Reverting now to spatio-temporal relations , the assumption of their irreducibility to monadic predicates is linked with the assumption that they depict an objective order , and if such relations are taken to depict an objective order , then it is clear that we shall have to assume the possibility of a plurality of biographically distinct points of view , occupied by different percipients , before we can make any significant inferences about the ontological distinguishability of their terms . |
| 6 | Although surprisingly few of our colleagues have died ‘ in the field ’ , it is nonetheless fitting that field-work should have assumed the character of a tribal ordeal or initiation rite the performance of which , under appropriate conditions , is virtually indispensable if one is to gain professional status . |
| 7 | At Rheims , Rouen , Sens or Bourges , the archbishops may well have assumed the functions ( and resources ) of those " greater " countships . |
| 8 | The ninth conference of the Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) Foreign Ministers was held in Rabat , Morocco , on July 22-23 , Morocco having assumed the chairmanship of the AMU Presidential Council on July 1 . |
| 9 | In January 1990 the Irish Foreign Minister Gerard Collins visited Yugoslavia , Ireland having assumed the presidency of the European Community ( EC ) Council of Ministers in that month . |
| 10 | Dressed casually , he seemed to have assumed the personality of someone altogether warmer and more approachable , even human . |
| 11 | As a result of this potent combination of sentiment and self-interest , the war had assumed the character of something more than a military operation : in the minds of the military and of many civilians , left and right , it had quickly become a decisive test of France 's national will and international power . |
| 12 | On this occasion she had assumed the dress and name of a working girl , Miss Jane Warton . |
| 13 | Jaramillo had assumed the presidency of the UP following the assassination of its previous leader Jaime Pardo Leal in October 1987 [ see 35755 ] . |
| 14 | As head of CI5 , Cowley had assumed the responsibility for the protection of the Colonel , a guest in the country . |
| 15 | Aziz characterized the Gulf war as a " pan-Arab battle in which Iraq had assumed the responsibility of defending pan-Arab security as well as the Gulf region in particular " . |
| 16 | Crown Prince Harald , who had assumed the monarch 's official duties since his father 's stroke in June 1990 , was sworn in as King Harald V on Jan. 21 . |
| 17 | It was held that by drawing on the company 's bank account , the defendant had assumed the rights of an owner . |
| 18 | The accused had assumed the rights of a customer to have the cheque met . |
| 19 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 20 | The club had assumed the money was not a loan anyway but a contribution . |
| 21 | At West Kensington Lee wanted to get out on to the roof and sledge to Gloucester Road but Dean , who had assumed the position of expert adviser , said he was n't sure about the tunnels . |
| 22 | In certain instances rights to the throne were strengthened by a theory of divine birth , in which a ruler claimed to the child of a sacred marriage between a god , who had assumed the form of the king , and the queen . |
| 23 | As far as I could gather , Nour 's father had taken on responsibility for all his sisters , married or not , and for their offspring , and since his death Marie Claire had assumed the burden . |
| 24 | Its successor , the conservative Regency of Five ( presided over by the Bishop of Orense , later to gain notoriety by his public denunciation of the doctrine of national sovereignty ) was caught between , on the one side , the urban democracy of Cadiz , where a ‘ Junta of merchants ’ , elected by a ballot of householders , had assumed the airs of a sovereign body and , on the other , the antiquated obstructionism of the Councils . |
| 25 | At first Jaq had assumed the Navigator 's idea was to sustain , sympathetically , the pitch of the ship 's engines which sometimes skipped a beat , by chatting or humming to them . |
| 26 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 27 | The Training Guide was developed to support the one-to-one training relationship between the recent graduate , the trainee , and the experienced general practitioner who had assumed the role of trainer . |
| 28 | Rabeh Kebir , who had assumed the role of principal FIS spokesperson following the arrest of Abdelkader Hachani [ see p. 38703 ] , was arrested on Jan. 28 . |
| 29 | Jim Paton , who had assumed the role of Managing Director of Rhenania after the sudden death of Wolfgang Ferber last year , now relinquishes that post to take up again his former role as Chairman of the Rhenania Supervisory Board . |
| 30 | The Germans , indeed , had been so confused by British musketry that they had assumed the enemy was equipped with a plethora of machine-guns . |