Example sentences of "was assumed to be a " in BNC.

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1 The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made .
2 There was assumed to be a counterpart in human events to every celestial phenomenon .
3 Until March he was assumed to be a reliable , if conservative , servant of the president .
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 Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment .
6 Earlier practice was assumed to be a group activity to which all lent potential imaginative content .
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