Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN WAR broke out in 1939 , the UK Government Ministry of War Transport and the Admiralty quickly assumed control of shipping . |
| 2 | Rafiq was studying his magazine with the kind of intense concentration often assumed by those who are listening to other people 's conversations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It also implies that the over-ridden rocks may not have been subjected to the excessive burial or the degree of disturbance once assumed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On the part-time farm the woman often assumed a crucial role , having to cope on her own for most of the day . |
| 8 | Niall 's voice suddenly assumed a practical note as he turned to the occupant of the bed . |
| 9 | The state thus assumed responsibility for deaf education but , as we shall see , its advance had a chequered history . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Labour topped the poll and won more than half the wards in the tier of local government usually assumed to be a Conservative stronghold . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tory loyalist Ian Taylor , MP for Esher , said some of those determined to vote against the government falsely assumed that if they won , the Maastricht issue would disappear . |
| 14 | Winning space therefore assumed a significant part of the assembly programme . |
| 15 | The justification for selecting the variable with the largest penalty implicitly assumed that the penalty gave a useful estimate of the decrease in objective function value and not just a bound . |
| 16 | Serrano immediately assumed temporary responsibility for foreign affairs . |
| 17 | It was a race which highlighted his incredible distance running ability , and the TV and newspaper press naturally assumed that Zarei was an athlete dedicated to winning and record breaking , but nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 18 | Stoically she continued to meet his gaze with an expression of polite interest carefully assumed to disguise the way her heart had increased its beating . |
| 19 | Yet , clearly , any account of the death of the author as arbiter of the final ‘ meaning ’ of a given text ( Barthes 1977 ; Foucault 1977a ) , is potentially matched by the important , though much less addressed , question of the transcendence of the industrial designer , who , as Forty ( 1986 ) has shown , should never have been ascribed the autonomy often assumed . |