Example sentences of "have [adv] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one ever asked me to do so — though everyone has since assumed that , for all eternity , it will be my round of drinks . ) |
| 2 | The careful exegete , however , will also be troubled by the fact that the Bible hardly majors on this issue , that we do not know the context of Paul 's two references to the subject , and that a strong anti-homosexual line is only possible if one has already assumed that such statements are immediately transferable into our situation straight from the biblical period . |
| 3 | Research into technological innovation has generally assumed that although shifts have occurred they have been within a stable organisational framework . |
| 4 | Eckmire , anxious to be seen to be supportive of the departing champion , added : ‘ Our sponsorship position has always assumed that Nigel would be driving for Williams next year and we echo the British public 's sentiments . ’ |
| 5 | It is exactly this assumption , however , that shows the extent to which Western society is indistinguishable from all other cultures , for each , according to Lévi-Strauss , has always assumed that it represents the full meaning and significance of human society : |
| 6 | The industry has always assumed that the birds recover quickly , but research by Dr Michael Gentle , of Edinburgh 's Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research , has shown that the animals experience chronic pain for weeks or months afterwards . |
| 7 | As far as the first factor is concerned , foreign trade has clearly assumed greater importance to the Soviet economy in recent years . |
| 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 | Chatri Sophonpanich , the second son , has now assumed his father 's mantle . |
| 10 | The impact of article 10 has only recently been regarded as significant , but in the context of breach of confidence and of contempt article 10 has now assumed considerable importance . |
| 11 | Moreover , the importance which EEC law has now assumed in the UK would suggest that a book on UK statutory interpretation should deal with how EEC regulations should be interpreted , when directives have direct effect and so on . |
| 12 | I understand there was some kind of rift and Mr Swinton is not recognized by his brothers , the eldest of whom has now assumed the baronetcy . |
| 13 | Created to bring all racing 's interests under one authority , the BHB has now assumed overall responsibility for the sport . |
| 14 | First , and of most immediate relevance as far as the tax-protest movement is concerned , the past two decades have witnessed a remarkable change in the nature of political dissent which has increasingly assumed unconstitutional and , on occasions , violent forms . |
| 15 | The discussion so far has implicitly assumed that both the long and the short legs of the spread involve an equal number of contracts . |
| 16 | The deduction has implicitly assumed that ta ; /L is small ; since the instability producing the fingers occurs at high Rayleigh number ( cf. |
| 17 | However the recent revival of interest in the practice , which can be traced back to 1977 , represents a new departure , rendering it of far greater potential significance than it has previously assumed . |
| 18 | Carter Brown , who only last year retired after twenty-two years as director of the National Gallery of Art , has again assumed an enormously influential position in the American art world . |
| 19 | Newton is head of A&R and joint MD at Circa Records , which has recently assumed responsibility for all of Virgin 's subsidiary labels . |
| 20 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 21 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 22 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 23 | Barbara it 's , I 'd always assumed that people were probable born with asthma , but that 's not , not the case ? |
| 24 | She 'd automatically assumed that it was from Ryan , only of course it was n't , and if she had been thinking rationally before she would have known it could n't possibly have been from him . |
| 25 | Added to this , at the time of retrieval subjects may have simply assumed that since this was an experiment about risk , the experimenter really wanted them to recall the risky situations . |
| 26 | She had not reflected upon what , alone , she would be , had perhaps assumed that she would sit motionless as a statue with vacant eyes . |
| 27 | In her early days as a singer she had encountered those who had wrongly assumed she was nothing more than a beautiful but empty-headed blonde . |
| 28 | He had wrongly assumed he was able to use any APEX service as long as there was room . |
| 29 | Without waiting for an explanation from the men , who had all assumed sheepish expressions , the lady gracefully turned towards Cleo and Javelot , her arms extended . |
| 30 | Which she foolishly assumed would be easy , because she had foolishly assumed that Irish villages were like English ones . |