Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | British higher education remained another source of national pride and complacency , with the high international standing of British universities and polytechnics generally assumed , even though the differential fees imposed on overseas students in Britain , first by the Callaghan government , and later by the Conservatives after 1979 , somewhat eroded this appeal . |
| 2 | WHEN WAR broke out in 1939 , the UK Government Ministry of War Transport and the Admiralty quickly assumed control of shipping . |
| 3 | Rafiq was studying his magazine with the kind of intense concentration often assumed by those who are listening to other people 's conversations . |
| 4 | Beside the Bishop was a tall , thin , ascetic man , wearing the black and brown garb of a Franciscan monk who Corbett immediately assumed was Father John . |
| 5 | As Gould rightly assumed , vast areas of terra incognita held enormous possibilities for new and exotic species . |
| 6 | In both cases coalition governments were established in which communists swiftly assumed a dominant position . |
| 7 | Most early ecologists simply assumed that the physical environment was stable and that existing species would establish natural relationships with one another in each area . |
| 8 | One of the duties occasionally assumed by the guilds was the maintenance of a charnel , a subterranean chamber into which were placed the bones of the dead disturbed when interments took place in the churchyard . |
| 9 | Although the round table voted to oppose foreign participation in the campaign for the March 18 election , West German party political support rapidly assumed a high profile . |
| 10 | The torturers usually assumed that the victim had useful information and was guilty . |
| 11 | Throughout the early days of October the Allies blithely assumed that Antwerp could withstand investiture . |
| 12 | Lamarckism still assumed that evolution was driven by the interaction between the organism and its environment , but some opponents of Darwinism insisted that the process must be controlled by forces arising from within the organism . |
| 13 | It also implies that the over-ridden rocks may not have been subjected to the excessive burial or the degree of disturbance once assumed . |
| 14 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 15 | More recently still , hardware developments have made possible a radically new approach to computation , wherein parallel processing by dedicated ( as opposed to general-purpose ) hardware is used to compute properties previously assumed to require highly abstract sequential processing . |
| 16 | At his baptism , then , Jesus publicly assumed a double role : the role of the Messianic Son , and the role of the Suffering Servant . |
| 17 | Other powers recently assumed by governors , all part of the LMS package , will also affect classroom teachers . |
| 18 | Finally , Richard Livesey-Hawarth , who was previously responsible for the product operations now assumed by his fellow executive directors , moves over to oversee ICL 's important vertical retail and financial services operations as well as group marketing activities . |
| 19 | In such discussions Zuwaya generally assumed that they had given offence unwittingly , and that malign actions were always done by others , requiring Zuwaya to pursue justice . |
| 20 | The monarch stood at the top of a pyramid of aristocracy in a period when most people still assumed society must be run by élites . |
| 21 | The American policy also assumed that if TOWs were bartered for lives , as North put it , the transaction could be passed off as something other than ransom , neatly tied up without the stakes being raised . |
| 22 | On the part-time farm the woman often assumed a crucial role , having to cope on her own for most of the day . |
| 23 | While the Romans are described as being tributary , it seems that the lands which had originally been granted to free-born Franks had been exempt from tax , and that the Franks subsequently assumed that any lands which they came to hold were similarly exempt . |
| 24 | Niall 's voice suddenly assumed a practical note as he turned to the occupant of the bed . |
| 25 | The state thus assumed responsibility for deaf education but , as we shall see , its advance had a chequered history . |
| 26 | On both occasions his injuries led to enforced absences during which Pateman generously assumed responsibility for much of the District 's administrative work . |
| 27 | They had been Promotionaries , on their respective sides of the Wars ( which were not , of course , between Good and Evil at all , as non-combatants of every species always assumed , but between Banality and Interest ) , with great things expected of them once their training and indoctrination was completed ; but they had each done something silly , something which called into question their very suitability for exalted rank , and now they were here , in the castle , with a problem to solve and games to play , being given one last chance ; a long shot , an unlikely appeal procedure . |
| 28 | Both the form and the substance of his approach rapidly assumed an authoritative status and have played a major role in shaping the dominant tradition . |
| 29 | Labour topped the poll and won more than half the wards in the tier of local government usually assumed to be a Conservative stronghold . |
| 30 | He was surprised , since for all Boy 's nights out , during which , as the man correctly assumed , Boy had sex with many different men , he never received visits , calls or letters from the men he had been sleeping with . |