Example sentences of "[pers pn] was assumed to be " in BNC.

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1 For the first six months of my mother 's pregnancy , I was assumed to be indigestion .
2 It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant .
3 Added to this was an acceptance of liberal Victorian culture to such a degree that it was assumed to be as eternal as the gospel itself .
4 Until recently it was assumed to be a flattened axisymmetric spheroid ( that is , one which is round in the plane of the Galaxy ) .
5 The investigator also plans to follow up a finding that having perfected the distinction between meaning and message , children may come to view reality in a new way : incoming information can be construed as offering clues about reality , whereas before it was assumed to be reality .
6 Until March he was assumed to be a reliable , if conservative , servant of the president .
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