Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | In both cases coalition governments were established in which communists swiftly assumed a dominant position . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The torturers usually assumed that the victim had useful information and was guilty . |
| 6 | Throughout the early days of October the Allies blithely assumed that Antwerp could withstand investiture . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Other powers recently assumed by governors , all part of the LMS package , will also affect classroom teachers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They did not halt the process of change , and the riots only assumed major proportions in times of wider crisis , such as in 1549 and during the Civil Wars . |
| 11 | In philosophy , history and political science , dialogues with liberal thinkers rapidly assumed central significance in elaborating an updated Marxist analysis of liberal democracy . |
| 12 | Although the two countries agreed to an unprecedented meeting of their Premiers in September , the negotiations quickly assumed a familiar pattern with each side seeming to make offers which it knew that the other would reject . |
| 13 | These are important for understanding anorexia nervosa because first , symptoms previously assumed to reflect primary psychopathology are now recognised as common to starving people whatever the cause and , second , starvation leads to secondary symptoms that then play a critical part in perpetuating the disorder . |
| 14 | In Britain prior to the 1968 Transport Act BR was , according to Joy ( 1973 : 84–5 ) , ‘ working to a whole range of sub-goals , some imposed by the Government , others voluntarily assumed by BR , and all of which were in conflict with the basic break-even objective laid down by Parliament ’ . |