Example sentences of "[verb] assumed that the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In this particular drawing the forecaster has assumed that the future is going to be almost the same as the present ( at least in the characteristics he is depicting ) .
2 Secondly , JPAC has assumed that the number of consultant posts will consistently increase by over 4% a year .
3 The third parties could not have assumed that the Council was acting on behalf of member States .
4 However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness .
5 Given 20 numbers to use , subjects may have assumed that the quantity the experimenter was interested in must vary in some way , if their own feelings did not , they may simply have based their responses on aspects of the environment which did vary , e.g. their speed , proximity to other vehicles etc .
6 For most of his life , doctors had assumed that the man was incapable of making his own insulin in the cells of his pancreas .
7 Whereas Barlow and Abercrombie had assumed that the problem was distribution of population and employment ; the issue for the 1960s was also growth .
8 Thus Beveridge had assumed that the elimination of poverty was integrally linked to policies for health , education , housing and town planning , and full employment .
9 Channel 7 had assumed that the codes for accountants and solicitors were ‘ very much the same ’ and , said Mr Hyde , they had not received any indication from the Institute that a problem existed .
10 Just that she had assumed that the booking had been made for him and someone else .
11 Like many scientists , campaigners at Friends of the Earth in London ( including the author ) had assumed that the absence of strong evidence for forest decline in Britain might be due to a combination of climate ( moist conditions good for growing trees ) coupled with the possibility that magnesium in rain coming in from the sea might counteract leaching by acid rain .
12 Up to a dozen viewers had heard my throwaway remarks and had assumed that the party at Frenchay really would be out in the street .
13 He had come to like and trust Lorton ; he had assumed that the feeling was reciprocated .
14 Here , however , we have assumed that the taxes are lump-sum , so that this is not the source of the utility loss .
15 Some scholars have assumed that the Minoans worshipped a Great Goddess , the Mediterranean ‘ Magna Mater ’ , and that they later divided her up into a series of more specialized divinities .
16 So far we have assumed that the fraction and exponent are positive .
17 In most of the foregoing discussion we have assumed that the deformations which we have related to stresses have been carried out at constant temperature .
18 As we can not yet do all analyses on one sample , we have assumed that the mineralogy was similar to that of visually identical samples , which were indistinguishable from those reported previously from the same location ( finely intergrown siderite , Mg-calcite and iron sulphide ) .
19 I have assumed that the journey is made in a private car , principally following main motor roads but with many deviations and detours to places of special interest .
20 Dent has been called a " chocolate-box village " by some writers who have assumed that the preservation of the village is due to the action of the green welly and Barbour jacket brigade ( 2.4 children called Timon and Amarintha , Range Rover with macramé or tie-dye seatcovers and this year 's Booker Prize winner on the back seat ) , but the fight to prevent the cobbles being ripped up and the narrow bridges widened was led , not by middle-class " off-comed-uns " , but by the Dalesfolk , the farmers , joiners and builders , the ordinary people who cared about their dale .
21 The variance may then be calculated as : where we have assumed that the Pareto exponent exceeds 2 , so that the variance is finite .
22 In constructing the scheme we have assumed that the division of surplus-value between unproductive consumption and accumulation would be 50 per cent each ; and also that the unproductively consumed part would be divided in the same proportions as Marx used .
23 We have assumed that the exponent and fraction are packed into one computer word .
24 We have assumed that the demand for money depends directly on national income and inversely on the rate of interest , and that the supply of money is exogenous .
25 We have assumed that the product market provides very little by way of constraint in this case in order to bring out the important point that comparisons should be like-with-like .
26 In writing this book we have assumed that the reader either owns or has access to copies of both Warhammer and Warhammer Battle Magic .
27 Actually , this is a bit optimistic because we have assumed that the material will go on obeying Hooke 's law right up to failure .
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