Example sentences of "[adv] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Niall 's voice suddenly assumed a practical note as he turned to the occupant of the bed . |
| 2 | Why the date 1785 was used is uncertain ; it was said by Professor J.G. Wright to commemorate the meeting of the Odiham Agricultural Society when the first mention of the idea of improving farriery was made , but the strong possibility remains that it was originally meant to be 1875 , the year the College received its Charter of Incorporation and adopted its coat of arms , and that someone corrected what was wrongly assumed to be an error . |
| 3 | In her early days as a singer she had encountered those who had wrongly assumed she was nothing more than a beautiful but empty-headed blonde . |
| 4 | He had wrongly assumed he was able to use any APEX service as long as there was room . |
| 5 | All that I am saying is that I strongly suspect that those periodic catastrophes make more showing in the stratigraphical record than we have hitherto assumed . |
| 6 | It is apparently assumed that the contents of current affairs programmes can be neatly listed in three columns , headed respectively Favourable to Us , Favourable to Them and Neutral . |
| 7 | it will be henceforth assumed that the typical unit of lexicology is the word ( this statement is so obvious as to have an air of tautology ) . |
| 8 | As Gould rightly assumed , vast areas of terra incognita held enormous possibilities for new and exotic species . |
| 9 | I was n't naive enough to expect the goodies to win every time , but over the long-haul , and certainly in the last reel , I sort of weakly , vaguely , wetly assumed that things would come right . |
| 10 | Without waiting for an explanation from the men , who had all assumed sheepish expressions , the lady gracefully turned towards Cleo and Javelot , her arms extended . |
| 11 | The above examples have all assumed some prescience on the part of the investor . |
| 12 | Irrespective of the precise role of linearity in the Hebrew notion of time , it was for long assumed that the eschatological nature of that concept greatly influenced , by way of Christianity , the development of our modern idea of time 's unidirectional non-cyclic nature . |
| 13 | Modern historians have for long assumed this rise , and stressed its importance ; and yet its nature and the evidence for it have never been properly analysed . |
| 14 | This programme for a natural religion has its own importance as making explicit something which is often enough assumed , but has been heavily criticised in much modern theology — the idea that religion functions chiefly to safeguard the good ordering of society . |
| 15 | Which she foolishly assumed would be easy , because she had foolishly assumed that Irish villages were like English ones . |
| 16 | I had foolishly assumed that the opportunity would be taken to eliminate a particularly hazardous S-bend and install a roundabout in its place thus easing the flow of the many cars , buses and lorries which use the road . |
| 17 | In 1982 the presidency was constitutionally assumed by Biya who continued his drive to ‘ modernize ’ the economy . |
| 18 | Smith obviously assumed that someone as badly dressed as himself could not possible be in a group and wondered why he was in the dressing room . |
| 19 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 20 | Above all , understanding an utterance involves the making of inferences that will connect what is said to what is mutually assumed or what has been said before . |
| 21 | In both cases coalition governments were established in which communists swiftly assumed a dominant position . |
| 22 | In Christianity it is not only assumed , it is required . |
| 23 | They did not halt the process of change , and the riots only assumed major proportions in times of wider crisis , such as in 1549 and during the Civil Wars . |
| 24 | She had not reflected upon what , alone , she would be , had perhaps assumed that she would sit motionless as a statue with vacant eyes . |
| 25 | Alternatively , it is perhaps assumed that without franchises there would be a vertically integrated chain , which would be less socially desirable . |
| 26 | Since so much had been done peacefully through economic change , population increases , emigration and Parliamentary legislation , it is not surprising that ministers , like others , naturally assumed that progress through the same channels would continue ad infinitum . |
| 27 | It was a race which highlighted his incredible distance running ability , and the TV and newspaper press naturally assumed that Zarei was an athlete dedicated to winning and record breaking , but nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It can be easily assumed that because we know how computers work we therefore know how learning is programmed . |
| 30 | On a very few occasions , however , the police do make a point of denying links or connections which had been too easily assumed . |