Example sentences of "assume [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So even a very episodic role for political leaders assumes a wider significance , given that elected political leaders can not pass the buck for crisis decisions to any alternative source of authority in a liberal democracy . |
| 2 | In rural areas it assumes a greater significance , comprising , in 1971 , 24 per cent of the total housing stock compared with 21 per cent nationally , although this proportion is falling quite rapidly everywhere . |
| 3 | When you live alone , money assumes a greater importance than if you share your life with someone . |
| 4 | Once again he backtracks and assumes a larger unity in which conflict takes place . |
| 5 | Also the day-to-day work of schools and the task of assessing pupils assumed a higher importance than the development of new curriculum . |
| 6 | Developments in Afghanistan assumed a greater significance for Western governments than they would otherwise have had because of the place they appeared to occupy in an ‘ Arc of Crisis ’ that extended from the Middle East to South-Eastern Asia . |
| 7 | In much work that was to develop within the compass of physical geography , the chronology assumed a greater significance , it required a greater knowledge of existing and recently developed dating techniques , and it thus involved close liaison with other disciplines particularly geology , biology and archaeology amongst the broadening spectrum of the earth and environmental sciences . |
| 8 | These concepts , expressed in books and pamphlets , and directly to women , assumed a greater importance because of the professionalisation of medicine and the growing dominance of disease models as explanations for social phenomena . |
| 9 | In cases involving the assessment of fitness to be interviewed , mental state assumed a greater importance . |
| 10 | Again it seems best to assume the stricter doctrine as background for our discussion . |
| 11 | Simply expressed , in a situation in which voters detach themselves from a close identification with parties then issues come to assume a greater significance in voting behaviour and electoral choice . |
| 12 | If teachers are to assume a greater role in the control of their own organisations a far wider range of knowledge and skills is required than if they are to remain ‘ in the classroom ’ — they must move from the restricted to the extended approach . |
| 13 | Later in this chapter we will examine the gradual growth of government concern to assume a closer control of the process . |
| 14 | Transport availability and costs assume a greater importance in rural areas than in urban areas . |
| 15 | Quite how they will choose to vote is less certain , however , as the poll tax becomes labelled ‘ a Tory tax ’ and as environmental issues and collapsing public services assume a higher priority . |
| 16 | As regards utilising the services of third parties for debt collection , you have once again assumed the worse scenario as if I meant their complete extinction , which I quite clearly stated ‘ less dependent ’ . |
| 17 | One of the reasons why the purchasing power parity theorem has not worked so well over short periods is that the influence on currencies of current account flows has diminished , while capital account transactions have assumed a greater role . |