Example sentences of "assume [pron] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The island presented such a complex profile to the early European navigators that they assumed her to be separate islands — and her pluralized name remained all the way up to Indonesia 's independence when an orgy of name-changing occurred and Celebes was renamed Sulawesi , and her capital , Makassar , became Ujung Pandang . |
| 2 | No doubt it is open to the objection that it presupposes the very point in issue , namely the law which is to be applied , but such a solution seems just as sensible in this context as the rule that the law governing the validity of a contract is determined by the law which would govern the contract if one assumed it to be valid . |
| 3 | If for the moment we assume it to be real and unrepeated , then all other eigenvalues have smaller moduli . |
| 4 | In short lesbians and gay men are assumed to influence young people over their sexuality , whilst heterosexuals assume themselves to be neutral . |
| 5 | Whether large rises in what are already often massive salaries , even assuming them to be efficacious , would be politically acceptable , however , is doubtful . |
| 6 | The debate has been sterile because each side has begged the question by assuming itself to be correct . |
| 7 | Over the next week ( assuming it to be typical ) keep a note of exactly what you do with your time each day . |
| 8 | However I would say that , on a strike out application , I would find it difficult to hold with certainty that the ex turpi causa defence , assuming it to be available , would exclude a claim to contribution under the Act of 1978 unless I were also satisfied , with the same degree of certainty , that there must be exemption from contribution under section 2(2) . |
| 9 | And where , assuming it to be well-founded , was Heather ? |
| 10 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 11 | ‘ I have always assumed it to be apocryphal . ’ |