Example sentences of "assume that the [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downs assumed that the public was aware of the costs of public goods and services in terms of taxation . |
| 2 | No reply came , and he assumed that the minister was of the same cold fashion as his wife . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
| 9 | We may assume that the caution was in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 10 | Diploma-level skills-based education — Here the course would be longer-term ( say twelve modules ) and would assume that the students were either direct from secondary education or retraining from another discipline . |
| 11 | Nor should we assume that the parties were static . |
| 12 | Let us further assume that the shares were and are worth only £50,000 . |
| 13 | I can only assume that the words were left out because an assurance ’ vigorously ’ to continue ’ fighting crime ’ would have raised only a horse laugh when offered by a Government with a record of this Government on this subject . |
| 14 | I think we can safely assume that the statuette was washed and wiped clean after the event . ’ |
| 15 | Parents may have opted for the test , however , and , hearing nothing more , might assume that the result was normal . |
| 16 | At later real times , the universe would expand like the chaotic inflationary model proposed by Linde ( but one would not now have to assume that the universe was created somehow in the right sort of state ) . |
| 17 | The geneticists ' error was to assume that the biographies were ‘ real ’ and were the primary cause and origin of the written literary text . |
| 18 | None of the six we tested included an invoice for the sample , nor have any , at the time of writing , sent one on later so it 's pretty safe to assume that the trial was free . |
| 19 | In the case of a matrimonial home which does not have registered title , it would seem to be accepted practice to assume that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase , so that all the husband 's solicitors need to abstract to the wife 's solicitors is the conveyance to the husband , any mortgage , any " sales-off " ( or other transactions affecting the title ) , and details of the covenants affecting the property . |
| 20 | It is quite reasonable for a purchaser to assume that a vendor who sells land for a particular purpose will not do anything to prevent its being used for that purpose , but it would be utterly unreasonable to assume that the vendor was undertaking restrictive obligations which would prevent his using land retained by him for any lawful purpose whatsoever … |
| 21 | On the one hand papal taxation was preserving them from Edward 's attentions , except for customary feudal dues and prerogative levies ; it is safe to assume that the laity were adapting readily to the notion of leaving the tax burden , or as much of it as they could , to the clergy . |
| 22 | It had been so easy to assume that the Tarvarians were human because they acted like men . |
| 23 | In order to keep the example simple , assume that the gymnasium was built and paid for in cash within a year . |
| 24 | If that child gets higher marks this year than last , then we assume that the examination was ‘ easier ’ , and we remove some of the questions that nearly all children found easy , before next year 's examination . |
| 25 | ‘ I notice you 're all assuming that the boy was murdered . |
| 26 | Assuming that the reforms were approved by the People 's Assembly — scheduled to debate them in early 1991 — opposition parties could be legalized by the end of March . |
| 27 | And this is sort of right at the beginning , by assuming that the function was continuous when it was n't . |
| 28 | The best that can be achieved then , assuming that the guarantee was given after 11 April 1978 , is a CGT loss claim of £10,000 under s 136(4) ( 11 ) , CGTA 1979 . |
| 29 | Assuming that the system was properly balanced before , each of the original radiators has to give some flow up to the new one . |
| 30 | ‘ Tell me about Illinois , Lee , ’ she invited , assuming that the figure was one of the kitchen staff . |