Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] assumed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rafiq was studying his magazine with the kind of intense concentration often assumed by those who are listening to other people 's conversations . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Other powers recently assumed by governors , all part of the LMS package , will also affect classroom teachers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Labour topped the poll and won more than half the wards in the tier of local government usually assumed to be a Conservative stronghold . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |