Example sentences of "assumption was that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assumption was that each institution would behave like a mini polis , in which all full members of the community would be actively involved in its corporate life . |
| 2 | The Conference 's working assumption was that all incursions from Lagos were to be resisted ; the reason invariably given was that only the Residents had enough knowledge and experience of the mysteries of Indirect Rule to be entrusted with its execution . |
| 3 | In the analysis above , the assumption was that all of the benefits were experienced by those residents in the locality ( i.e. in the club ) . |
| 4 | And this , in turn , would seem to justify Professor Gaddis 's conclusion that the assumption was that such governments , whether in Western Europe or Japan , and whether or not they came to power by legal or illegal means , could only be regarded as instruments of the Kremlin and hence not truly independent . |
| 5 | The assumption was that later information would allow some of these paths to be eliminated ; the graph would ‘ narrow ’ because hypotheses at some point were acoustically clearer and/or limited by top-down information . |
| 6 | But the assumption was that these matters should continue to be a subject of discussion and debate within the ILEA , leading to new proposals after the five-year implementation period . |