Example sentences of "[was/were] assumed to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | N-terminal lysine residues were assumed to be present in lysylendopeptidase digests because of the high specificity of this enzyme . |
| 2 | They lie in why the restructuring took place and in the forms of ownership and capital structure that were assumed to be superior to the old . |
| 3 | For intergroup comparison the data were assumed to be non-parametric and the Wilcoxon 's rank-sum comparison was used . |
| 4 | The Home Office sent a detective to report on the movements of ‘ the French people ’ — they were assumed to be foreign as they did not have a Somerset accent . |
| 5 | In this case Tx was assumed to be negligible . |
| 6 | No pornographer has ever been punished for being a woman-hater. but not too long ago information about female sexuality , contraception and abortion was assumed to be obscene . |
| 7 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 8 | However , in all these papers , wage determination was assumed to be exogenous . |
| 9 | The act of shipping the barley in Maynegrain was assumed to be sufficient to amount to conversion , but the position is different where the defendant innocently interferes with P 's goods whether upon his own initiative or upon the instructions of another , when the defendant 's act amounts to nothing more than transport or custody of the goods . |