Example sentences of "had assumed the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | As head of CI5 , Cowley had assumed the responsibility for the protection of the Colonel , a guest in the country . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Germans , indeed , had been so confused by British musketry that they had assumed the enemy was equipped with a plethora of machine-guns . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As far as I could gather , Nour 's father had taken on responsibility for all his sisters , married or not , and for their offspring , and since his death Marie Claire had assumed the burden . |
| 15 | On this occasion she had assumed the dress and name of a working girl , Miss Jane Warton . |
| 16 | The Training Guide was developed to support the one-to-one training relationship between the recent graduate , the trainee , and the experienced general practitioner who had assumed the role of trainer . |
| 17 | The mine 's formal closure was a severe blow to the country 's economy as it was estimated to provide up to 20 per cent of government revenue and some 40 per cent of the country 's export earnings ; in formulating the 1990 budget , the government had assumed the mine 's reopening by the end of 1989 . |
| 18 | Jaramillo had assumed the presidency of the UP following the assassination of its previous leader Jaime Pardo Leal in October 1987 [ see 35755 ] . |
| 19 | Aziz characterized the Gulf war as a " pan-Arab battle in which Iraq had assumed the responsibility of defending pan-Arab security as well as the Gulf region in particular " . |
| 20 | Bush stated that the USA had assumed the " burden of leadership " in confronting the aggression of Iraq , because " among the nations of the world , only the United States of America has had both the moral standing and the means to back it up " . |
| 21 | Crown Prince Harald , who had assumed the monarch 's official duties since his father 's stroke in June 1990 , was sworn in as King Harald V on Jan. 21 . |
| 22 | Rabeh Kebir , who had assumed the role of principal FIS spokesperson following the arrest of Abdelkader Hachani [ see p. 38703 ] , was arrested on Jan. 28 . |
| 23 | Russia , which in January 1992 had assumed the special guest status enjoyed by the former Soviet Union , on May 7 applied for full membership of the Council . |
| 24 | The little birds had assumed the roles of birds that were absent from the area . |
| 25 | If Edward Carrington had assumed the process would be quick or easy , he was quickly disabused . |
| 26 | McAggott climbed over the sergeant , who had assumed the foetal position , and staggered back to his office . |
| 27 | It was held that by drawing on the company 's bank account , the defendant had assumed the rights of an owner . |
| 28 | The accused had assumed the rights of a customer to have the cheque met . |
| 29 | As a result of this potent combination of sentiment and self-interest , the war had assumed the character of something more than a military operation : in the minds of the military and of many civilians , left and right , it had quickly become a decisive test of France 's national will and international power . |
| 30 | Jim Paton , who had assumed the role of Managing Director of Rhenania after the sudden death of Wolfgang Ferber last year , now relinquishes that post to take up again his former role as Chairman of the Rhenania Supervisory Board . |