Example sentences of "assumed that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When the current collusion controversy began , it was assumed that the bulk of the problem lay with the UDR . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It has been assumed that the eggs are contaminated too but the evidence is weak , ’ he said . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In her fantasies Phoebe had somehow assumed that the mammogram would be visible . |
| 7 | Initially it was assumed that the objective would be for the villages to farm on a communal basis . |
| 8 | It must not be assumed that the absence of a 24-hour rhythm in newborn babies means that they have no rhythms at all . |
| 9 | It can therefore be assumed that the Soviet commanders are fully aware of the situation , if not totally in control of it . |
| 10 | It will be widely assumed that the cabinet fears it would be unable to control a judicial inquiry . |
| 11 | Because the economy is in recession , it is widely assumed that the government will and should cut interest rates . |
| 12 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |
| 13 | He had therefore assumed that the preparation of a European plan would be broadly similar to the planning practices normally followed in the United States . |
| 14 | It must not be assumed that the most likely date is in the centre of the range ; to quantify the distribution of the calendar dates , one of the probability methods ( which require computerisation ) must be used . |
| 15 | As the centuries passed and the second coming receded into the remote future , it came more and more to be assumed that the final verdict could be pre-empted . |
| 16 | The second muddle concerns murder and manslaughter specifically , namely , that since there is no workable defence of insanity , it is often assumed that the existence of the mandatory penalty for murder is the essential reason for the section 2 defence . |
| 17 | Rape is only held to have been committed in English law where the sexual intercourse is ‘ unlawful ’ , and it is generally assumed that the function of that term is to remove non-consensual intercourse between a man and his wife from the ambit of rape . |
| 18 | It is commonly assumed that the strategy of ‘ area bombing ’ — indiscriminate attacks on largely civilian target ‘ areas ’ , usually in city centres — failed in its express aim of undermining and destroying the morale and will to resist of the German people and instead merely stimulated such an intense hatred of the enemy that the bonds between regime and people were strengthened , not weakened . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've always assumed that the country has enough water but the shortages of the last three or four years have shown this is not the case , ’ said Dr Neil Johnston , author of the report . |
| 20 | In the absence of a specific object , it was assumed that the IRA may have intended little more than to carry out its threat to keep ‘ the war in the Ireland ’ in the limelight during the election campaign . |
| 21 | It is apparently assumed that the contents of current affairs programmes can be neatly listed in three columns , headed respectively Favourable to Us , Favourable to Them and Neutral . |
| 22 | On the other hand the EEC Nine produces only 64% of its consumption of sheep meat and it is generally assumed that the UK with approximately 25% of the EEC sheep flock and as the leading producer of 50% of Community production is well placed to reap some advantage which could be of benefit to the hills and upland areas . |
| 23 | Second , it was assumed that the gas would be evenly mixed in the air , so that no dangerous concentrations would occur . |
| 24 | Like many scientists , campaigners at Friends of the Earth in London ( including the author ) had assumed that the absence of strong evidence for forest decline in Britain might be due to a combination of climate ( moist conditions good for growing trees ) coupled with the possibility that magnesium in rain coming in from the sea might counteract leaching by acid rain . |
| 25 | She is right to draw our attention to the importance of signalling in both ‘ actual living and theatre ’ , but it should not be assumed that the same kinds of signs are employed in these two contexts . |
| 26 | The discussion is more neutral only in so far as it is assumed that the curriculum ( such a global phenomenon ) is no-one 's responsibility in particular , and clearly this is so in an individual sense — but it is however the responsibility of the profession to take a leading role in this area and at the moment it is not fulfilling this role . |
| 27 | The derivation of the birds from a reptilian ( possibly dinosaur ) ancestor is certain , and because the earliest fossil bird , Archaeopteryx , is Jurassic in age , it is usually assumed that the split from the reptiles occurred in the earlier part of the period . |
| 28 | It can be assumed that the proposals were drawn up by David Garrick . |
| 29 | Here it is assumed that the child 's right to education is a correlative of the parent 's duty to send the child to school . |
| 30 | After the establishment of an independent Germany and Italy , it was assumed that the national question , as a progressive issue , was now past in Europe ; only reactionaries would continue to try to resurrect it . |