Example sentences of "[vb infin] assumed that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One would have assumed that as two classicists , Punch contributors and men of letters of an old-fashioned Christian temper , Lewis and Knox would have known each other for years . |
| 2 | Mr Kinnock 's election interviews were indescribably awful and had it not been for the polls one would have assumed that they had dished Labour 's chances irrecoverably . |
| 3 | One would have assumed that — indeed , I think it was generally known — that the Prime Minister and Treasury ministers and her Chancellor kept in very close touch with the financial authorities and the central monetary authorities , which means the Bank of England among other people , and that all that would go on . |
| 4 | If he was acquainted with Smith 's work he would naturally have assumed that the French Academy knew it too , and that the point of the competition was to fill in the details of Smith 's proof . |
| 5 | He must have assumed that I meant trouble from the twins , for he suddenly became surprisingly loquacious . |
| 6 | However , after having reached a position out of range of detection by the Cherbourg defences , P/O Atherton and his crew must have decided to circle and wait until they felt that the defences would have assumed that the attack was over and would therefore have relaxed their alertness . |
| 7 | The third parties could not have assumed that the Council was acting on behalf of member States . |
| 8 | The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside . |
| 9 | But would n't a man of any sensitivity have attempted to check with her , would n't he have assumed that , without needing to be told ? |
| 10 | Ryan must have assumed that she 'd gone to stay with her parents when he left her . |
| 11 | Given 20 numbers to use , subjects may have assumed that the quantity the experimenter was interested in must vary in some way , if their own feelings did not , they may simply have based their responses on aspects of the environment which did vary , e.g. their speed , proximity to other vehicles etc . |
| 12 | Moreover , the use of recall as a measure of memory may have meant that subjects were using thoughts about risk as a retrieval cue , indeed they may have assumed that it was this information that the experimenter was most interested in . |
| 13 | Why should we have assumed that a little thing like a gunfight in the street would attract attention ? |
| 14 | If he had been aware that she 'd gone , he would probably have assumed that someone else had taken her home . |
| 15 | ‘ Not at all , ’ Leith laughed lightly , then found that his aunt , without meaning to pry , she was sure , was asking questions which she must have assumed that Naylor already knew the answers to anyway . |
| 16 | Readers may have assumed that your reporter was quoting what Mr Bacon said at the planning appeal inquiry , w here Hambleton 's refusal to allow The Sundial Hotel to be converted into a nursing home was under consideration . |
| 17 | To have seen him and de Castelnau together , one might well have assumed that Pétain was the born aristocrat , the squat and rather swarthy general the peasant ; though in fact it was the reverse . |