Example sentences of "[verb] assumed the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , he has assumed the throne of the Kingdom . |
| 2 | While the criticism that Lévi-Strauss , structuralism emphasizes the synchronic at the expense of the diachronic has assumed the status of a critical truism , this in fact repeats the substance of his critique of Sartre , namely that the latter attempted to transform history into a space of synchronicity . |
| 3 | The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities has assumed the role of publisher and co-owner of the journal RES Anthropology and Aesthetics , a joint venture with Harvard University 's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology . |
| 4 | In his absence Ian Benjamin has assumed the top marksman 's title with seven . |
| 5 | In his absence Ian Benjamin has assumed the top marksman 's title with seven , with Andy Ansah next on a miserly three . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd assumed the letter was identical in each case . |
| 7 | Although surprisingly few of our colleagues have died ‘ in the field ’ , it is nonetheless fitting that field-work should have assumed the character of a tribal ordeal or initiation rite the performance of which , under appropriate conditions , is virtually indispensable if one is to gain professional status . |
| 8 | At Rheims , Rouen , Sens or Bourges , the archbishops may well have assumed the functions ( and resources ) of those " greater " countships . |
| 9 | In January 1990 the Irish Foreign Minister Gerard Collins visited Yugoslavia , Ireland having assumed the presidency of the European Community ( EC ) Council of Ministers in that month . |
| 10 | The ninth conference of the Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) Foreign Ministers was held in Rabat , Morocco , on July 22-23 , Morocco having assumed the chairmanship of the AMU Presidential Council on July 1 . |
| 11 | Dressed casually , he seemed to have assumed the personality of someone altogether warmer and more approachable , even human . |
| 12 | The General Theory appears to have assumed the dubious status of a ‘ classic ’ : a work to which everyone refers but which no one reads . |
| 13 | Her fear at what was about to happen assumed the image of one black ogre , defeated instantly by the joy of feeling the strength of his body against hers , conscious of the sureness , the confidence , the single-mindedness of his wanting . |
| 14 | When he took up his pen again , it was as if he had assumed the annihilating impact of that wave : his books , he said , ‘ must be read as if they were the books of a dead man ’ . |
| 15 | As head of CI5 , Cowley had assumed the responsibility for the protection of the Colonel , a guest in the country . |
| 16 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 17 | The Germans , indeed , had been so confused by British musketry that they had assumed the enemy was equipped with a plethora of machine-guns . |
| 18 | At first Jaq had assumed the Navigator 's idea was to sustain , sympathetically , the pitch of the ship 's engines which sometimes skipped a beat , by chatting or humming to them . |
| 19 | For its part , AGF claims to be content with its 25% stake , though observers had assumed the French insurer would try to consolidate its control of AMB . |
| 20 | In a letter to Suger , Robert of Montfalcon declared that a case over whether or not a certain man was his serf should be tried either in the royal court or before the archbishop of Bourges , provided that the proceedings were in accordance with the customs of Bourges ; for him , the consuetudines of his native town had assumed the status of a law binding on outside authorities . |
| 21 | Agitation over the Irish question had assumed the proportions of a major political threat in the 1860s , bread riots were not unknown in London in this period , and in the shadow of the second Reform Bill of 1867 there had been occasions of political violence over voting reforms . |
| 22 | At West Kensington Lee wanted to get out on to the roof and sledge to Gloucester Road but Dean , who had assumed the position of expert adviser , said he was n't sure about the tunnels . |
| 23 | Within a short time of Jesus 's death , he had taken his brother 's place , had assumed the presiding role in the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem and had attained status as a holy man himself . |
| 24 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 25 | In certain instances rights to the throne were strengthened by a theory of divine birth , in which a ruler claimed to the child of a sacred marriage between a god , who had assumed the form of the king , and the queen . |
| 26 | Its successor , the conservative Regency of Five ( presided over by the Bishop of Orense , later to gain notoriety by his public denunciation of the doctrine of national sovereignty ) was caught between , on the one side , the urban democracy of Cadiz , where a ‘ Junta of merchants ’ , elected by a ballot of householders , had assumed the airs of a sovereign body and , on the other , the antiquated obstructionism of the Councils . |
| 27 | As far as I could gather , Nour 's father had taken on responsibility for all his sisters , married or not , and for their offspring , and since his death Marie Claire had assumed the burden . |
| 28 | On this occasion she had assumed the dress and name of a working girl , Miss Jane Warton . |
| 29 | The Training Guide was developed to support the one-to-one training relationship between the recent graduate , the trainee , and the experienced general practitioner who had assumed the role of trainer . |
| 30 | The mine 's formal closure was a severe blow to the country 's economy as it was estimated to provide up to 20 per cent of government revenue and some 40 per cent of the country 's export earnings ; in formulating the 1990 budget , the government had assumed the mine 's reopening by the end of 1989 . |