Example sentences of "assume [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There she found herself ensconced in a huge grey suede and chrome armchair , clutching a hefty measure of Scotch , and staring blankly around at what she could only assume to be the ‘ minimalist ’ style of interior decoration . |
| 2 | He was unsurprised to find her packed off firmly to take his sister home , leaving him as a person of major importance in what he instantly assumed to be a real murder . |
| 3 | Susanna held out a thin , freckled hand , and parted heavily glossed lips in what Christina assumed to be a smile . |
| 4 | We consider initially a single decision , which we take to be the level of government spending , G. This is financed by a pre-specified tax system , assumed to be a uniform poll tax , T. If the utility of individual i depends only on G and disposable income , then the preferences of i can be depicted as in Fig. 10–2 . |
| 5 | The 3rd class return fare fare from Craven Arms was only 9d , assumed to be a day ticket , at that time a Parliamentary single was 7d , which was good value for the golfers , all of whom came from Craven Arms . |
| 6 | On the morning after the prince 's departure , carrying out a plan known as yet to only six persons , the queen-dowager bade farewell to the damsel everyone assumed to be the lady Anne . |
| 7 | As I flew the approach I observed quite a tall tree on the threshold , which I assumed to be the obstruction . |
| 8 | Carson stood in the open quadrangle of tended plants and empty benches that he assumed to be the ‘ garden area in the middle ’ , and looked around . |
| 9 | No one had taken much notice of the woman Blanche assumed to be the attempted assassin , and Dexter garnered a description that could have fitted Christine Mills — and a hundred other women equally well . |
| 10 | The latter is the default and assumed to be the case wherever a user name mapping does not exist . |
| 11 | In the rest of this chapter I will discuss Creole acquisition in terms of new dialect acquisition , with JC assumed to be the target variety . |
| 12 | The decline is most marked among oaks and Scots pines , with insects and wind damage assumed to be the main causes . |
| 13 | Léandre Schlegel ( 1844–1913 ) is represented by the sixth , somewhat characterless , piece of Der arme Peter , which I assume to be a ‘ suite ’ of some sort ( Willem Noske 's otherwise intelligent and informative notes do not tell us ) . |
| 14 | Taking the example of the Earth 's surface , which we assume to be a perfect sphere , we could place the origin at the North Pole N as in Fig. 3.1 . |
| 15 | Reinforcing this pattern may be the fact that girls in class fall into a role they assume to be the natural order , taking second place to boys . |
| 16 | You will , I fear , have found my monosyllabic utterances rather unrewarding material for linguistic analysis ( which I assume to be the philosophical method you are following ) — and my frequent silences even more intractable . |
| 17 | It is particularly striking that some of these reviewers , when discussing recordings by English ensembles , praise what they assume to be the impeccable musicological credentials of what they are hearing , so clear does it seem to European eyes that early-music performance in England is conducted under the vigilant eyes of scholars . |
| 18 | We therefore have : 1 ) the malady if it is a malady ; at any rate it is assumed to be a malady by the proponents of incomes policy ; 2 ) a theoretical cause of the malady , which is not disputed ; 3 ) the practical demonstration that this cause has been in operation ; and 4 ) the psychological explanation why that cause is desired , fomented and sustained by Governments . |
| 19 | The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made . |
| 20 | Labour topped the poll and won more than half the wards in the tier of local government usually assumed to be a Conservative stronghold . |
| 21 | There was assumed to be a counterpart in human events to every celestial phenomenon . |
| 22 | So there 's often a contradiction as to whether programmes are addressed to their actual or potential audiences or to a hypothetical audience , which in current affairs and news broadcasts is usually assumed to be a male viewer . |
| 23 | Loss of the nuptial pads is usually assumed to be a consequence of mating on land because , in other frogs and toads , their function appears to be to help the male to grip onto the female 's slippery back while mating in water . |
| 24 | In that year the German chemist Friedrich Wohler ( 1800–92 ) found a way of producing from inorganic materials the chemical urea ; always beforehand this had been assumed to be a substance that could be produced only by bodily ( biochemical ) reactions . |
| 25 | As discussed above there are assumed to be a number of willing Doom Divers ready and waiting to step forward and be catapulted into the air . |
| 26 | If women are to be a good test of male-oriented psychological theories , as egalitarian feminist psychology hopes , they must be assumed to be a largely homogeneous population . |
| 27 | Until March he was assumed to be a reliable , if conservative , servant of the president . |
| 28 | Until recently it was assumed to be a flattened axisymmetric spheroid ( that is , one which is round in the plane of the Galaxy ) . |
| 29 | The airflow over the tail is assumed to be a steady uniform flow comprising the vector sum of the bird 's velocity and the induced velocity generated by the wings . |
| 30 | Private passions are not assumed to be a universal , biologically determined category ( they are of unknown origin , not assumed to be necessarily identical across different cultures ) . |