Example sentences of "assumed that " in BNC.

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1 Well , I was always going to be an artist and it was always assumed that I would leave South Africa and go to somewhere like Italy and study at an art school .
2 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 .
3 As they have always been properly declared , I have assumed that goods below a certain value must be duty free .
4 Furthermore it can not be assumed that all RDS information will be received accurately at all times .
5 In other academic areas it is assumed that the teacher knows more than the student , and is there to convey this knowledge , whether as a corpus or a skill .
6 It was immediately assumed that Robson , who had missed England 's 0-0 draw in Sweden last month because of bruised ribs , would again be absent when his country strove to acquire the further point they need in Poland to ensure qualification for the World Cup finals next summer .
7 When the current collusion controversy began , it was assumed that the bulk of the problem lay with the UDR .
8 Although there was no confirmation last night , it was being widely assumed that the explosives were Semtex and the discovery part of a pattern of similar finds and explosions in an IRA mainland campaign that has continued for more than a year .
9 MacCabe and company had assumed that their location work would prove more than adequate to meet the quota , but then found that they were obliged to do all their processing and post-production work in Hamburg , too -a doubly inconvenient requirement since the local labs are not used to working nearly so quickly as their counterparts in London .
10 It is assumed that he was arrested on suspicion of being an American spy .
11 ‘ It has been assumed that the eggs are contaminated too but the evidence is weak , ’ he said .
12 It is widely assumed that Elders will not bother to hold on to any Scottish shares and its 23.7 per cent stake will be acquired and used as the springboard for a bid .
13 Instead it has been assumed that Eurotunnel 's fares will always be the same as those of the ferry services .
14 All Eurotunnel 's traffic and revenue forecasts published so far have assumed that passengers will remain with their vehicles .
15 It is assumed that : Ax = Ay Fx Fy
16 This allows a comparison to be made between markets in countries that are at a different stage in their development , but it is assumed that their development will follow a similar pattern .
17 It is assumed that If Ax\ , Fx\ and Fyz are known , then market demand for product A in country Y in time period 2 can be estimated .
18 On the other hand , since nearly 80 per cent of the nation were illiterate in early NEP , consisting of a disorganized and fragmented peasantry , it has often been assumed that the actions of this class have been both unreflective and ineffective .
19 If tension was so high in an area not stricken by famine , it may be assumed that as much or more violence occurred in regions like the Ukraine and Tambov guberniia , which were nearly as badly off as the Volga .
20 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 .
21 At the end of the First World War it was confidently and almost universally assumed that after a short time money would be back to its pre-war value and market prices ( including market rents ) to their pre-war levels .
22 They have assumed that certain methods were not available to them .
23 Without anything in writing to the contrary , it is legally assumed that all members of the band equally share the band 's profits and assets .
24 In this article , I have assumed that a band has reached this second stage by being offered a recording contract .
25 In so far as Whitehall had considered these matters it had been vaguely assumed that a status quo ante would be established and the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies , the French in Indochina , and the Colonial Office in Burma and Malaya would resume their rightful sway .
26 In her fantasies Phoebe had somehow assumed that the mammogram would be visible .
27 Initially it was assumed that the objective would be for the villages to farm on a communal basis .
28 In the general election of 1970 there had , for instance , been no discussion of the settlement issue ; it had been assumed that ujamaa would continue to be a voluntary movement .
29 He thought that if people such as the Iroquois of North America practised a particular type of agriculture it could be assumed that their institutions were the same as those of long dead prehistoric peoples who had a similar level of technology .
30 It was assumed that she had eloped with her boy friend .
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