Example sentences of "was assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and my parents had booked the audition for the Central School and found me a bed-sit in Swiss Cottage and being completely naive it was assumed that this was where I would be going . |
| 2 | When the current collusion controversy began , it was assumed that the bulk of the problem lay with the UDR . |
| 3 | Under the old method a pensioner , for example , or unemployed teenager , sharing a house with the family was assumed to have a separate , and often lower , income . |
| 4 | When Mrs Thatcher took office in May 1979 it was assumed that southern Africa would cause a massive rift between her and the black African states of the Commonwealth . |
| 5 | Typically , the sterling area was assumed a ‘ good thing ’ , the justification of which needed only to be made to foreigners ( especially Americans ) . |
| 6 | Initially it was assumed that the objective would be for the villages to farm on a communal basis . |
| 7 | For example , if the Bushmen of the Kalahari , who live by hunting and gathering , accord a high status to women this , it was assumed , must also have been true of the hunters and gatherers of prehistoric times . |
| 8 | It was assumed that she had eloped with her boy friend . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In assessing the impact of stories of premature interment , one must bear in mind that for most of the nineteenth century , medical science , such as it was , was helpless in the face of coma and cardiac arrest ; if the patient had apparently ceased breathing and had no discernable heartbeat , it was assumed that death had come . |
| 11 | Crudely simplified , majority opinion passed through two well-defined phases in the West : first , it was assumed that war was unthinkable and impossible as a continuation of policy ; later , it was suggested that within certain limits nuclear war might still be winnable , if you were sufficiently prepared . |
| 12 | Added to this was an acceptance of liberal Victorian culture to such a degree that it was assumed to be as eternal as the gospel itself . |
| 13 | In the absence of a specific object , it was assumed that the IRA may have intended little more than to carry out its threat to keep ‘ the war in the Ireland ’ in the limelight during the election campaign . |
| 14 | First , it was assumed that no long-range problems would occur ; that is , that the acidifying or toxic power of the gases would be neutralised long before they got to Scandinavia or anywhere else . |
| 15 | Second , it was assumed that the gas would be evenly mixed in the air , so that no dangerous concentrations would occur . |
| 16 | The subjective inner world of animals was not denied and an evolutionary development of sensed-worlds was assumed because of the complexity indicated by the increasing sophistication of perceptual and communicational mechanisms , but only the behaviour could be charted and recorded in the actual passage of time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When he had not returned by lam , it was assumed that he was the wanted man . |
| 19 | It was assumed in Paris , rightly as it turned out , that Queen Victoria would add her powers of dissuasion to all those who opposed the idea and that the combined opposition would convince Napoleon III that his plan was dangerous and unnecessary . |
| 20 | After the establishment of an independent Germany and Italy , it was assumed that the national question , as a progressive issue , was now past in Europe ; only reactionaries would continue to try to resurrect it . |
| 21 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 22 | It was assumed that wisdom , as the sum of experience and self-control , grew with age . |
| 23 | When it was loaned for ‘ The Treasure Houses of Britain' exhibition in Washington , it was assumed that , like all the other works of art on show , it would be returned to its original setting . |
| 24 | First , it was assumed , the opportunity of a transfer for the more able to grammar school at the age of thirteen ( or , very much later in the story , at the age of sixteen ) . |
| 25 | The late fifties and early sixties , when I lived in Windsor Great Park , were creative and critical in manner : the established order was questioned ( sometimes cynically ) , but it was assumed that well-directed idealism could change human society . |
| 26 | The actual facts ' of who was arrested during the riots , whether black or white , were hardly debated since it was assumed that they were mostly black and mostly unemployed and involved with crime ( Keith , 1987 ) . |
| 27 | There was assumed to be a counterpart in human events to every celestial phenomenon . |
| 28 | The content of their syllabuses was largely , though indirectly , in the hands of the universities , through the local examination boards , and it was assumed that a good school , even if comprehensive , would manage to get a reasonable number of O and A level passes and send a proportion of its pupils on to higher education . |
| 29 | One of my own patients grew up in a loving family where it was assumed that he would eventually study law — just like his grandfather , his father and his uncle . |
| 30 | It was assumed by the NRS that the belted and white-faced patterns were merely varieties of the black pied and red pied breeds , with their unusual patterns fixed by selection . |