Example sentences of "[conj] it was assumed that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my own patients grew up in a loving family where it was assumed that he would eventually study law — just like his grandfather , his father and his uncle . |
| 2 | Newspapers printed a photograph of a letter to a flood-control committee bearing Mr Li 's signature , so it was assumed that he could still put pen to paper . |
| 3 | He was thirty-five to forty and it was assumed that he was an army intelligence officer . |
| 4 | Max was said to be in the grip of some form of neurosis , but it was assumed that he would grow out of it . |
| 5 | Until very recently , married women were unable to draw the allowance for the care of invalid relatives because it was assumed that they would do that anyway as they were at home all the time , despite the fact that two-thirds of married women work . |
| 6 | The actual facts ' of who was arrested during the riots , whether black or white , were hardly debated since it was assumed that they were mostly black and mostly unemployed and involved with crime ( Keith , 1987 ) . |