Example sentences of "assume [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly he asked that " immediate steps " be taken to deal with the " large numbers of surrendered personnel " of Army Group E , whom McCreery assumed were about to enter 5 Corps area . |
| 2 | He pulls one of those ‘ I-am-about-to-explode-in-front-of-your-very-eyes ’ faces , which we might as well assume is actually a crazy cover-up for the fact that he really means what he says . |
| 3 | Just as a gentleman was defined by his likeness to other gentlemen , so a house should resemble other houses of a similar standing ; it would therefore be redundant to describe what every courteous author must assume was already known to his readers . |
| 4 | Wherever we had been in the Celebes lowlands people would call out to us , " Hello , mister ! " — but in Bira it was always " Hello , Inggeriss ! " which we assumed was simply because news of our true nationality had got around . |
| 5 | The child , it was thought , came into the world as a formless , inert blob of clay which was then moulded by parents , teachers , society , or whatever other forces he happened to come into contact with , and the shape that he eventually assumed was therefore entirely due to the characteristics others had decided to implant in him . |
| 6 | A powerful challenge to such approaches was made as long ago as the 1930s by Professor E. E. Evans-Pritchard who lived with and studied the Azande of Central Africa , a technologically simple society whom Europeans therefore tended to assume were intellectually simple as well . |
| 7 | ( Who I assume is now ensconced in the larger room at the foot of the spiral stairs . ) |