Example sentences of "assumed the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the Cheka people high intellectual standards combined with education and culture had not assumed the outward expression which I had found to be so hateful among the former Russian intellectuals … . |
| 2 | John Young , a larger-than-life figure , had automatically assumed the Princess would sit in the Royal Box , and had sold tickets in the belief that everyone in the theatre would have a view of the Princess . |
| 3 | ‘ The journalist ’ the Baptist James Owen declared in 1890 , ‘ the reviewer , the historian , the essayist have assumed the sceptre which the teacher in the pulpit long ago wielded . ’ |
| 4 | When he took up his pen again , it was as if he had assumed the annihilating impact of that wave : his books , he said , ‘ must be read as if they were the books of a dead man ’ . |
| 5 | From the middle of the sixteenth century there had , however , been some confusion in England , mainly because most continental countries had adopted 1 January as the beginning of their year , and had also assumed the same year number . |
| 6 | The filaments on the underside of barnacles were found to resemble the bird 's feathers , so it was assumed the goose emerged half-grown from the barnacles clustered on floating logs . |
| 7 | If these groups also appoint the directors , then the committed stakeholders have effectively assumed the rights and responsibilities of ownership . |
| 8 | Hopefully , the Fox and Hedley Walton cases will encourage the executors of land-owning taxpayers to fight over-valuation , which has often assumed the status of a national scandal . |
| 9 | In other words , he has assumed the throne of the Kingdom . |
| 10 | As head of CI5 , Cowley had assumed the responsibility for the protection of the Colonel , a guest in the country . |
| 11 | However , this remarkable literary work — even given an army of fans as keen as his niece — would not have brought in very much income , nor would the journalism , and it was to be assumed the trust provided the rest . |
| 12 | Often other professionals have assumed the parents would like to see you without actually establishing whether or not they would ! |
| 13 | It was assumed the Frasque fitted somewhere in the Capellan scheme of things ; that they were another client species , as the Thrants and Eladeldi evidently were , though they seemed more enterprising and self-sufficient than most . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Germans , indeed , had been so confused by British musketry that they had assumed the enemy was equipped with a plethora of machine-guns . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thus , when preferred skills and qualities are not observed , it is assumed the teachers concerned simply do not have them and should therefore be supplied with them ( training ) , prevented from entering teaching at all ( screening ) , or restricted only to those ‘ safe ’ areas in which they are competent ( matching ) . |
| 18 | For its part , AGF claims to be content with its 25% stake , though observers had assumed the French insurer would try to consolidate its control of AMB . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In a letter to Suger , Robert of Montfalcon declared that a case over whether or not a certain man was his serf should be tried either in the royal court or before the archbishop of Bourges , provided that the proceedings were in accordance with the customs of Bourges ; for him , the consuetudines of his native town had assumed the status of a law binding on outside authorities . |
| 22 | The Atapeuerca skeletal sample is large by the standards of any other Middle Pleistocene hominid site , so it provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the internal morphological and metrical variation of what is assumed the represent a penecontemporaneous sample of individuals of different ages and sex . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Agitation over the Irish question had assumed the proportions of a major political threat in the 1860s , bread riots were not unknown in London in this period , and in the shadow of the second Reform Bill of 1867 there had been occasions of political violence over voting reforms . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Within a short time of Jesus 's death , he had taken his brother 's place , had assumed the presiding role in the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem and had attained status as a holy man himself . |
| 27 | The Court acknowledged that third parties could accept treaty obligations informally , but found that Germany had not ‘ unilaterally assumed the obligations of the Convention ; or … manifested its acceptance of the conventional regime or … recognised it as being generally applicable to the delimitation of continental shelf areas . ’ |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |