Example sentences of "was assumed that the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Despite ritualistic genuflections from time to time towards the value of local democracy , it was assumed that the purpose of local government was more or less consensually agreed to be the local delivery of a set of services enshrined in centrally determined statutes .
2 In Kennedy v. Broun ( 1863 ) 13 C.B. 677 ( Common Pleas ) Erle C.J. said that in Lampleigh v. Brathwait , ‘ it was assumed that the journeys which the plaintiff performed at the request of the defendant , and the other services he rendered , would have been sufficient to make any promise binding if it had been connected therewith in one contract ; the peculiarity of the decision lies in connecting a subsequent promise with a prior consideration after it had been executed .
3 It was assumed that the stress followed a path similar to that sketched in Figure 6(a) .
4 It was assumed that the spread of middle class attitudes would radically alter allegiances at work , in particular .
5 Second , it was assumed that the gas would be evenly mixed in the air , so that no dangerous concentrations would occur .
6 Many of Winterthur 's wealthier citizens had already built their villas outside in the country , and it was assumed that the space cleared by destroying the walls would go the same way .
7 Initially it was assumed that the objective would be for the villages to farm on a communal basis .
8 In addition it was assumed that the Soviets could reinforce their front line much more rapidly than their opponents .
9 A master who freed a slave could take back his freedom three times in succession ; after the third time it was assumed that the judgement of the master could no longer be trusted .
10 In the event , few attempts at car restraint were made because it was assumed that the money would be found for reconstruction , but in the crisis-ridden post-1960s British economy , available funds never approached the levels needed for a widespread application of environmental area principles .
11 Some uncertainty was admitted in relation to those factors , and ways of studying the impact of such uncertainties were shown , but then it was assumed that the uncertainties themselves were reasonably structured such that rough probabilities of outcomes could be assigned .
12 It was assumed that the food reinforcement in some way strengthened the response tendencies that led to the food , at the expense of other response tendencies .
13 In Albert v. Lavin it was assumed that the defendant was guilty of assaulting in the execution of his duty an off-duty policeman who was seeking to prevent a breach of the peace .
14 In this initial presentation of the passive rifting model it was assumed that the amount of extension was uniform throughout the lithosphere ( Fig. 4.1 7(A) ) .
15 In the absence of a specific object , it was assumed that the IRA may have intended little more than to carry out its threat to keep ‘ the war in the Ireland ’ in the limelight during the election campaign .
16 At the time of sentencing , it was assumed that the car was worthless , having been stolen from the appellant and returned to him in a damaged condition : it had subsequently been established that the car was worth £3,000 .
17 It was assumed that the investment return would be 9% per annum , that salary increases would average 7% per annum and that present and future pensions would increase at the rate of 4% per annum .
18 Until recently , it was assumed that the section would operate only where the pursuer had a specific Conclusion in his Summons seeking provisional damages , but a recent opinion of Lord McCluskey is to the effect that the pursuer can make an application that his case be treated as one seeking provisional damages at any stage during the case .
19 For years it was assumed that the bear of Croisset broke out of his bearishness solely with Louise Colet — ‘ the only sentimental episode of any importance in the life of Flaubert , ’ Emile Faguet declared .
20 When the current collusion controversy began , it was assumed that the bulk of the problem lay with the UDR .
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