Example sentences of "[verb] assumed a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , during the Eighties Irish provincial rugby has assumed a Third World status in relation to New Zealand 's . |
| 2 | The five-country meeting at San Jose has assumed a critical atmosphere because of the possible breakdown of last August 's Tela accord , which agreed contra demobilisation in exchange for democratic Nicaraguan elections . |
| 3 | Rather , as the programme reminds you , it has assumed a fresh topicality by the appointment of Stella Rimington as the first female head of MI5 . |
| 4 | With the current emphasis on the ‘ free market ’ and recent experiences with deregulation of mass media , this question has assumed a new urgency . |
| 5 | It is lavishly illustrated and presented and has assumed a pre-eminent position in its field . |
| 6 | Thus , although incoming variants of both vowels appear to have originated in the same hinterland Scots dialect , each has assumed a diametrically opposed social value in its new urban setting . |
| 7 | One of these defendants has assumed a completely false name and occupation , and it is the jury 's task to decide which . |
| 8 | As we have seen , higher education in the Principality has assumed a quite different form from that which existed in 1970 so that we now have ten institutions of higher education made up of the Polytechnic of Wales , three national colleges , and six colleges and institutes of higher education . |
| 9 | The synthesis has assumed a practical significance far beyond anything that its originators would ever have anticipated or- and here I conjecture — have approved of . |
| 10 | Suffice to say , the ‘ clothes shop debacle ’ has assumed an inflated significance in my mind . |
| 11 | It is less persuaded of a trend to earlier retirement but has assumed an average fall in the retirement age of two years by 2010 . |
| 12 | As one of the country 's leading young musicians , Sharon Shannon 's star has assumed an upward orbit in recent times , initially as a member of Arcady , and later as part of the Waterboys line-up . |
| 13 | In a secular society , where death no longer holds out hope of an after-life and heaven , the quality of the life we know we have has assumed an importance previously given to the life of the soul . |
| 14 | Jacques Hotteterre le Romain has assumed an almost legendary place in the history of the flute . |
| 15 | It would have assumed a place similar to that of the forerunners of the churches and chapels of historic times . |
| 16 | Having assumed a number of basic requirements for the survival of society , the next step is to look at the parts of the social structure to see how they meet such functional prerequisites . |
| 17 | Calheiros subsequently resigned his post as PRN congressional leader on Nov. 16 , after accusing Collor of having assumed an air of " infallibility and inflexibility " , of showing contempt for the congress , and of allowing " escalating immorality " . |
| 18 | I had been a thing of firm , clear outlines ; now I seemed to splay out in all directions and to have assumed a shape , thanks to undue accretions of flesh , which bore no relation to the person I believed to exist within it . |
| 19 | The creditor should not be taken in so doing to have assumed a duty of care . |
| 20 | On the other hand , if an explanation is given , the creditor may be taken to have assumed a duty of care and to be at risk of liability in damages if the explanation is subsequently held to be inadequate . |
| 21 | The creditor should not , in my opinion , be taken in so doing to have assumed a duty of care . |
| 22 | But if there is no more than that the creditor , in an attempt to satisfy itself that the surety properly understands the proposed transaction and that the transaction will not subsequently be impeachable , offers an explanation of the transaction and of the security document , I do not think that the creditor should be taken to have assumed a tortious duty of care . |
| 23 | Once established , however , this function is likely to have assumed an over-riding importance at those towns which were most suitably placed to exploit its potential . |
| 24 | Highlander was thus free to devote time to other issues which had assumed a growing need . |
| 25 | For the first time in classical antiquity the nuclear family had assumed a central role in the politics of state . |
| 26 | Joseph Sturge , who had assumed a leading part in the fight against apprenticeship , anticipated triumphs on a broader imperial and international scale which would confirm Britain 's moral leadership in the world . |
| 27 | Because I retained a few French words and phrases and could make myself understood in his language he had assumed a much wider knowledge than I possessed . |
| 28 | Probably because of the heat , Bishop Malduin 's face had assumed a motley of different colours , like a majuscule in a saint 's gospel-book : blue and pink and yellow and red and a little white , here and there . |
| 29 | He had assumed a stage-Southern accent . |
| 30 | And indeed , thus dignified and labelled , these diverse and ordinary objects had assumed an almost ritualistic significance ; the shoes , one with its wedge of mud behind the heel , the stained beaker , the blotter with its criss-cross of dead marks made by dead hands , the diary , the remains of Harry Mack 's last meal , the closed razor case and , occupying the centre of the table , the prize exhibit , the open cut-throat razor , its blade and bone handle gummy with blood . |