Example sentences of "[pers pn] was assume [that] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It was assumed that what was being measured was a property of the personality .
2 Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours .
3 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 ) .
4 It was assumed that they would meet the need .
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 Since the carriers risked their ships , it was assumed that they would select and supervise their crews with enough care to prevent the damages that could result from improper management and navigation of the ship .
7 If there were general laws governing the history of life , it was assumed that they would be revealed by the fossil record .
8 Until recently it was assumed that they all persisted as adults , but is has now been shown that the chilling of infective larvae before administration to calves will produce arrested L5 ; hypobiosis at this stage has also been observed in naturally infected calves in Switzerland , Austria and Canada , although the extent to which this occurs naturally after ingestion of larvae in late autumn and its significance in the transmission of the infection has not yet been fully established .
9 certainly it was assumed that there was some kind of organized network
10 It was assumed that she had eloped with her boy friend .
11 It was assumed that she would do so on the arm of one of her sons , but they followed behind in a somewhat passive procession .
12 When he had not returned by lam , it was assumed that he was the wanted man .
13 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 .
14 Max was said to be in the grip of some form of neurosis , but it was assumed that he would grow out of it .
15 He was thirty-five to forty and it was assumed that he was an army intelligence officer .
16 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 .
17 ( That the government was ready for a strike was a widespread interpretation of its appointment of Ian MacGregor to chair the NCB from September 1983 on ; MacGregor chaired British Steel in 1980–1 , a period encompassing its major dispute , and was believed responsible for the major cuts in job levels ; it was assumed that he was expected to achieve the same in the coal industry . )
18 In his letter , Brig Cordy-Simpson said that since Gen Mladic had not replied to UN proposals on how the airlift would be managed , it was assumed that he had agreed to them .
19 The conclusion of the Griffin mission was , first , that US aid would help France and Vietnam to checkmate Chinese communist invasion , if it came ; and second , it was assumed that it would somehow ‘ sterilise areas of Vietminh infection ’ .
20 Trade unions fell into the second of these groups , but , because of their large and fluctuating membership and because of certain provisions in the Trade Union Act 1871 , it was assumed that it was impracticable to bring actions against them so as to make their funds liable .
21 He was assuming that it was a hiccup , only .
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