Example sentences of "it was [adv] assumed that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glanville Jones ' ideas were based initially on studies of medieval Wales , where it was formerly assumed that a dispersed settlement pattern of pastoral farms had been the norm . |
| 2 | Part of the misconception arose because the bones of early humans have often been found with bones of other animals , and it was simplistically assumed that this showed that they had killed and eaten other animals , and had later died amid the remains of previous meals . |
| 3 | It was normally assumed that the quantity of differences as measured by some typological evaluation among assemblages ( usually subjective intuition ) is a measure of ethnic affinity between the groups responsible for the archaeological remains . |
| 4 | Under such circumstances it was normally assumed that , although the Monarch would probably seek advice in order to discover what persons would be acceptable to the party in power , yet for the final choice she alone was morally and constitutionally responsible . |
| 5 | It was generally assumed that they would probably prove to be complementary to each other , but what the optimum mix would be was far from clear . |
| 6 | It was generally assumed that deep-ploughing , straw burning , fertilisers or sprays might be the cause of ash decline in arable areas , but no detailed chemical and ecological investigation was made . |
| 7 | The corporation cited planning and zoning regulations for refusing these applications but it was generally assumed that the real reason was that the new houses would have been built in Unionist-controlled wards but would have been inhabited by Catholics . |
| 8 | It was generally assumed that Chamberlain would prefer to sacrifice imperial interests in a compromise with Hitler , than to join the USSR in an anti-fascist alliance . |
| 9 | When the Liberals returned to power in 1892 , it was generally assumed that Ellis would receive government office . |
| 10 | It was also assumed that if people had more of their gross income to spend as they chose then they would purchase goods and services that they wanted rather than the state spending money on goods and services for which there may be little or no demand . |
| 11 | It was just assumed that she had some ulterior motive in coming here , and she was n't allowed to defend herself . |
| 12 | 1 patient proved positive but because the patient was an injection drug user undergoing lymph-node biopsy it was reasonably assumed that this was not an occupational exposure . |
| 13 | It was immediately assumed that Robson , who had missed England 's 0-0 draw in Sweden last month because of bruised ribs , would again be absent when his country strove to acquire the further point they need in Poland to ensure qualification for the World Cup finals next summer . |
| 14 | When Paul Devereux took over The Ley Hunter in 1976 , it was widely assumed that some form of energy existed at ancient sites , but there had been virtually no research to back these ideas up . |
| 15 | It was widely assumed that motion pictures would be sexually suggestive and probably explicit , the whole tone seemed secular and irresponsible , and few doubted that children and the weak-minded were being pointed towards crime and degeneracy . |
| 16 | It was widely assumed that the pattern of administration in the new NHS hospital would follow that at the County , the voluntary hospital . |
| 17 | It was widely assumed that China , with her vast size and resources , would be the victor , and that the status quo in East Asia would remain unchanged . |
| 18 | It was widely assumed that the assailants had mistakenly believed their victims to be of Korean extraction , and that the assault was connected to a black boycott of two Korean-American grocery shops in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn . |
| 19 | Wingti 's position was improved by the defection to his government of a further six MPs , but it was widely assumed that some of those not rewarded with Cabinet office were unlikely to remain permanently within the government coalition . |
| 20 | IT was widely assumed that Sir Lawrie Barratt was working for nothing when he re-took the reins of his housebuilding empire last summer . |
| 21 | Furthermore mutual antagonism between France and Germany was so great that it was commonly assumed that only Britain could act as an ‘ honest broker ’ to draw them together . |
| 22 | In the past , it was often assumed that all babies who could not tolerate milk were lactase-deficient , and this idea is still current in some quarters . |
| 23 | It was often assumed that the ‘ natives ’ were unable to protect themselves from dangerous animals , thus justifying the intervention of the white man with his rifle . |
| 24 | It was mistakenly assumed that this trend represented a return to more traditional literary values ; an examination of such works reveals a postmodernist contestation of the conventional boundaries between genres and an intertextual mixture of writings , of which the fragmented subjectivity of the writer was itself a discourse capable of being plundered in order to generate text . |
| 25 | It was tacitly assumed that such activities were for grown-ups only . |
| 26 | Well , I was always going to be an artist and it was always assumed that I would leave South Africa and go to somewhere like Italy and study at an art school . |
| 27 | First , although it was always assumed that many from the older urban cores would be rehoused in the new towns , early evidence ( Heraud , 1966 ) shows that it tended to be the better-housed suburbanites who moved , few from the inner cities even knowing of the programme . |
| 28 | It was always assumed that Urban Programme funding would represent only a proportion of total expenditure in the Partnerships — most would come through a diversion of mainstream budgets to the benefit of the older urban cores . |
| 29 | Although it was always assumed that the Urban Programme would aim to initiate innovative projects , there must be some doubt whether this has always happened . |
| 30 | It was always assumed that they would get a job , a home , a wife and children , in that order . |