Example sentences of "assumed that the " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 We did n't see a single soldier or vehicle and assumed that the US army was blocking off La Boca from the Panama Defence Force , whose local headquarters is only about 300 yards from our house .
3 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 .
4 So rosy was the CEGB 's picture of these costs during the 1960s that it assumed that the charges for reprocessing would be covered by the value of the recovered uranium and plutonium .
5 They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation .
6 She assumed that the Greycoats ' team were all brilliant at everything .
7 In post-war years , the Balloons remained in the war-time green livery long after the single-deckers , and it generally assumed that the 25 Coronations of 1953 were intended to replace them .
8 I assumed that the major problems would be financial — the Centre now has to make a considerable charge to cover their costs — and one of occupancy .
9 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 .
10 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 ’ .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Bukharin , in formulating his equations for extended reproduction , assumed that the ‘ economy ’ under consideration was moving from a state of simple reproduction to one of extended reproduction .
14 Although the issue did not arise in Pickin 's case nor in other authorities cited above , it was there assumed that the only possible barriers to validity were the procedural ones there considered .
15 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 .
16 The next task is to cut the hide to a more manageable size , and I assumed that the straps would be cut out at this stage , so looked around for someone sitting down with a steel rule and a knife .
17 One gathers that the ‘ I ’ of the poem , seeing that the old cloak was a complete write-off , assumed that the new cloak , which he bought with cash , had completely solved the problem .
18 She immediately assumed that the malignancy of the stomach had not been cured and that he was dying .
19 No reply came , and he assumed that the minister was of the same cold fashion as his wife .
20 For several decades most scientists assumed that the discrepancy was too negligible to worry about : after all , no one said that everything in the Universe should work perfectly .
21 It is not , however , assumed that the reader is familiar with ( either implementation of ) Guide .
22 I assumed that the ‘ B ’ motif was drawn against the right-hand edge of the mylar sheet , that is with the right edge of the motif on the sixtieth stitch of the mylar sheet .
23 THE MOMENT Morrissey unfurled that Union Jack I knew he was in trouble , I assumed that the ‘ Is Morrissey A Racist ? ’ debate was a discredited old chestnut , but now it 's back , bigger than ever .
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 ISS assumed that the first three years would continue with a broad curriculum and would include subjects ( such as home economics ) which at present few schools consider to be compulsory in the fourth and fifth years .
26 At each of the past three , it was universally , and correctly , assumed that the Socialists would win .
27 It is generally , and reasonably , assumed that the primordial density fluctuation spectrum is well approximated by a power law , P(k) k n ( where k is the comoving wavenumber ) .
28 ‘ The police assumed that the money he gave her was his bonus for the Madrid Open and the Italian Championship . ’
29 Most of these schemes of settlement by proprietors which included half the mainland colonies in the seventeenth century , assumed that the proprietors would become great landlords of the old English type on a very grand scale .
30 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 .
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