Example sentences of "was [adv] assume that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Paul Devereux took over The Ley Hunter in 1976 , it was widely assumed that some form of energy existed at ancient sites , but there had been virtually no research to back these ideas up . |
| 2 | It was mistakenly assumed that this trend represented a return to more traditional literary values ; an examination of such works reveals a postmodernist contestation of the conventional boundaries between genres and an intertextual mixture of writings , of which the fragmented subjectivity of the writer was itself a discourse capable of being plundered in order to generate text . |
| 3 | It was always assumed that Urban Programme funding would represent only a proportion of total expenditure in the Partnerships — most would come through a diversion of mainstream budgets to the benefit of the older urban cores . |
| 4 | In the past , it was often assumed that all babies who could not tolerate milk were lactase-deficient , and this idea is still current in some quarters . |
| 5 | It was tacitly assumed that such activities were for grown-ups only . |