Example sentences of "assumed [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When other people arrived at the scene , and saw that there was no-one in the burnt-out cockpit , they assumed that the pilot had bailed out . |
| 2 | Unable to imagine anyone travelling for pleasure , or out of curiosity , they assumed that the king of England must have sent her to discover and redress their grievances . |
| 3 | Guided by these principles , the ‘ Beveridge plan ’ assumed that the government would provide family allowances , create a comprehensive health service and maintain full employment . |
| 4 | ‘ The police assumed that the money he gave her was his bonus for the Madrid Open and the Italian Championship . ’ |
| 5 | Only a fool assumed that the knowledge which was in his possession was the fullest extent of a man 's ability to know . |
| 6 | Party leaders and committee chairmen no longer carried the weight they once had and ordinary members now assumed that the secret of holding one 's seat in perpetuity depended on their success in cultivating their district . |
| 7 | But as she frowned more and more , and did not turn a page , I assumed that the gipsy 's words were more important to her than she wanted us to think . |
| 8 | Unlike them , Mary Queen of Scots did not see complexities in the situation ; like her grandson Charles I after her , she assumed that the expression of the royal will from a distance was enough to make problems go away . |
| 9 | Turning to the decisions of the Board of Review and in the courts below , it appears that the Board of Review , by posing the question in their decision in the manner which has already been referred to , assumed that the taxpayer 's profits accrued from exhibition by its sub-licensees of films and programmes abroad . |
| 10 | the treatment assumed that the flexibility of the chain is unaltered on passing into the solution from the solid state — this limits the calculation of ΔS M to the combinatorial contribution only and neglects any contribution from continual flexing of the chain in solution which will contribute to the non-combinatorial or excess entropy of mixing ; |
| 11 | Downs assumed that the public was aware of the costs of public goods and services in terms of taxation . |
| 12 | Economic theory assumed that the company , like the individual entrepreneur , behaved as a profit-maximizing unit . |
| 13 | No reply came , and he assumed that the minister was of the same cold fashion as his wife . |
| 14 | Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life . |
| 15 | Marx assumed that the capitalist has access to power because of his position as owner of the ‘ means of production ’ and therefore ‘ buyer ’ of workers ' services . |
| 16 | She immediately assumed that the malignancy of the stomach had not been cured and that he was dying . |
| 17 | Opposite to Street 's display in the exhibition was an even grander show which The Saturday Review thought was the product of another ‘ master hand ’ and , as it assumed that the building would be Gothic , to avoid failure the Government should employ the two architects jointly . |
| 18 | Their destination was kept secret , and many assumed that the expedition would sail for Aquitaine ; but on 12 July Edward landed at Saint-Vaast-la-Hogue in the Cotentin . |
| 19 | Certainly , the Americans assumed that the victory was won ; ‘ Not even on the horizon , ’ remarked Marcus Loew in 1926 , ‘ can I see the nucleus of a British film-producing industry . ’ |
| 20 | The ‘ narrow approach ’ assumed that the rule applied generally to all proceedings in which public law acts or decisions where challenged , subject to some exceptions when private law rights were involved . |
| 21 | ‘ That was because I assumed that the business would go to Francis and then I would have had no say in it . ’ |
| 22 | If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk . |
| 23 | She assumed that the Lift , under normal conditions , would have arrived in the terminal the same way . |
| 24 | For a few seconds he was too shocked to speak and Rebecque assumed that the silence merely expressed Sharpe 's horror at being ordered to a ball , but then the Rifleman exploded with his news . |
| 25 | In Belfast we assumed that the number of socially-patterned variables that we might uncover could well run into the hundreds . |
| 26 | There was no sign of Benny , but Ace assumed that the Professor had taken up a position on the other side of the stanchion . |
| 27 | It is not , however , assumed that the reader is familiar with ( either implementation of ) Guide . |
| 28 | He , of course , assumed that the earth was the hub of the universe , and also that the cosmos was controlled by celestial beings , rather like the living beings or cherubim of Ezekiel . |
| 29 | It then mentioned the ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ letter and some comments Street made at a meeting of the Architectural Photographic Association on 15th February when he assumed that the Opposition MPs either had not looked at Scott 's design or that ‘ they misrepresented the facts ’ . |
| 30 | Lasswells model was speedily recognised to be flawed — it assumed that the communicator had the intention of influencing the receiver and made no allowance for a feedback element in the communication process — but it provided a new method for the study of communication and was the stimulus for further analysis . |