Example sentences of "have assume [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text of the cable was : Bodyline bowling has assumed such proportions as to menace the best interests of the game , making protection of the body by the batsmen the main consideration . |
| 2 | A person who drew on someone 's bank account was assuming the rights of the owner , and to be guilty the accused did not have to assume all rights of the owner . |
| 3 | ‘ At this moment , yes , but he 'd been promoted to registrar and would have assumed that title in a fortnight 's time . ’ |
| 4 | Little did those two cricketers — the veteran Bill Lister and his friend John Beanlands — think when they instituted the tradesmen 's match that it would have assumed such proportions as it had . |
| 5 | President Hussein Mohammad Ershad has held effective political power since the military coup of March 1982 , and was elected by universal adult suffrage to the post of President for a five-year term in October 1986 ( see p. 34813 ) , having assumed that office in December 1983 . |
| 6 | In that year he succeeded Jean Ludet as ‘ Basse de Hautbois et taille de violon ’ ; Ludet had assumed that position on 10 April 1682 at the retirement of Michel Rousselet ( Arch . |
| 7 | The foresters of fee were to be summoned to appear before the king to show by what warrant they held their bailiwicks : likewise everyone who had assumed any liberty in the forest since 1217 , to produce his authority . |
| 8 | Ironically , one reason why so many antiracist initiatives have failed is because they have assumed some kind of transitive relation between policy and practice . |