Example sentences of "assumed that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both , it is assumed that the criminal law can and should be used to protect or to reinforce moral principles . |
| 2 | It can be safely assumed that the overwhelming majority of Mambo Leo and Mwangaza readers were pro-TANU , in view of the size of the electoral victories in 1958 , when that party was supported by sixty-seven per cent of an electorate in which Asians and Europeans were disproportionately highly represented . |
| 3 | It is customarily assumed that the five years and eight months between the outbreak of war with Nazi Germany in September 1939 and the final collapse of that power in May 1945 was an epoch of ever-increasing radicalism , both for the British electorate and for the Labour Party itself . |
| 4 | And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla . |
| 5 | It is often assumed that the Second World War had a more radicalizing impact on British politics than the First . |
| 6 | It can therefore be assumed that the Soviet commanders are fully aware of the situation , if not totally in control of it . |
| 7 | At one time it was assumed that the best approach was one of stealth and caution , particularly as the most productive place to fish was invariably no more than a rod 's length away from your own bank . |
| 8 | It is now widely recognized that all such attempts have failed , yet it continues to be assumed that the rational agent has somehow pulled himself up by his bootstraps out of reach of his own spontaneity . |
| 9 | It was assumed that the liquid discharge would disperse and be rendered harmless . |
| 10 | it was assumed that the segment-locating process is purely statistical , but this would only be true if ΔΕ 12 was zero ; |
| 11 | As the centuries passed and the second coming receded into the remote future , it came more and more to be assumed that the final verdict could be pre-empted . |
| 12 | It was assumed that the following variables would influence issuance ( bearing in mind that the level of issuance observed results both from demand and supply influences ) . |
| 13 | Indeed , perceptual constancies are only a puzzle if it is assumed that the visual system acts like a camera . |
| 14 | Nor should it be assumed that the young teachers of 30 years ago were all aspiring members of the working class . |
| 15 | It is assumed that the two defendants have committed some crime at a stated time — say between 10 and 11 p.m. last Wednesday — and have set up an alibi . |
| 16 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 17 | I have always assumed that the other side of the gate is private property and that somewhere deep within the woodland is a cottage . |
| 18 | However , it can be assumed that the political difficulties experienced within China over recent years continue to act as a barrier to any possible growth . |
| 19 | It is to be assumed that the general circumstances of the market remain unchanged throughout this period ; that there is , for instance , no change in fashion or taste , no new substitute which might affect the demand , no new invention to disturb the supply . |
| 20 | In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title . |
| 21 | Although expressed simply , it is assumed that the necessary liaison takes place between the sub-systems of the model on matters of common interest . |
| 22 | Irrespective of the precise role of linearity in the Hebrew notion of time , it was for long assumed that the eschatological nature of that concept greatly influenced , by way of Christianity , the development of our modern idea of time 's unidirectional non-cyclic nature . |
| 23 | it will be henceforth assumed that the typical unit of lexicology is the word ( this statement is so obvious as to have an air of tautology ) . |
| 24 | When Peter Sharp , sixty-one , Manhattan hotelier and real estate developer , died in April 1992 , it was assumed that the Metropolitan Museum would receive his collection as a bequest . |
| 25 | It is assumed that the shallow water Lower Carboniferous carbonates uncomformably overlie a platform of these older rocks , which locally are intersected by the pre-Permian surface because of thrusting or uplift and erosion . |
| 26 | This attitude to non-verbal communication has been encouraged by the popularisation of right-brain left-brain studies and amongst those who sponsor the soft primitivism that I have just referred to it is widely assumed that the verbal capabilities of the left cerebral hemisphere have been over-developed by a culture which puts too much emphasis on linguistic finesse and that the expressive repertoire of the supposedly holistic right hemisphere has been dangerously neglected as a consequence . |
| 27 | But as long as the A level system remains , pupils at school will be required severely to limit their choice of subjects , it being assumed that the only way to ensure ‘ standards of excellence , is to go more and more deeply into an ever narrower range of subjects . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was assumed that the Korean people would docilely accept trusteeship with decisions being taken for them by their American and Soviet masters . |
| 30 | After the establishment of an independent Germany and Italy , it was assumed that the national question , as a progressive issue , was now past in Europe ; only reactionaries would continue to try to resurrect it . |