Example sentences of "assumed [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have always assumed that Brightside had it right and Dagenham was merely contributing a series of Gouldisms to the discussion . |
| 2 | Throughout the early days of October the Allies blithely assumed that Antwerp could withstand investiture . |
| 3 | Indeed , it should not be assumed that Jacobitism was based solely — or even primarily — on the legitimist principle . |
| 4 | In the United States it is assumed that citizens have the right to know and it is up to the government to prove in court that certain types of information should not be disclosed . |
| 5 | Although it is assumed that birds have not a highly developed sense of taste , both tits and blackbirds , despite any flamboyant coloration to attract them , recognise Sturmers as worthy of attention , and those out of reach , when harder weather prevails , will , as in former winters , attract both fieldfares and winter-visiting blackcaps . |
| 6 | It is assumed that child abuse is preventable and predictable via a judicious reading of the research findings . |
| 7 | Gibson ( 1940 ) also assumed that stimulus differentiation , once it had occurred , would transfer to and facilitate performance on a new task involving the same stimuli . |
| 8 | Since no comment is made on the author being recently dead , it can be assumed that publication had been arranged while Leapor was still alive . |
| 9 | On this basis , it may be assumed that reliability estimates ought to exceed 0.7 if a test is to be regarded as providing ‘ reliable ’ scores . |
| 10 | She 'd assumed that Jan was the high-powered one and Tim the slow fuse but she was wrong . |
| 11 | It was assumed that Europe ( outside the Dual Monarchy and Russia ) ought to be organized on national lines . |
| 12 | From a combination of three levels of professional development — unreflective self-evaluation based on practical knowledge , self-evaluation as practical deliberation and self-evaluation as action research — it was assumed that teaching quality would most noticeably be improved through deliberation and action research . |
| 13 | This is most common in the case of overlapping when it can be falsely assumed that part of a continuous form is obscured from view . |
| 14 | It has been generally accepted that demolition of itself does not constitute development and , although there is some legal uncertainty on the matter , local authorities have typically assumed that demolition is outside the ambit of development control . |
| 15 | Until now it was assumed that sites deep underground provided a stable environment for buried waste . |
| 16 | As they have always been properly declared , I have assumed that goods below a certain value must be duty free . |
| 17 | It has been assumed that goods and services were traded by exchange , although relative values would have been complicated and difficult to agree . |
| 18 | This is an important point to make , since many theoretical positions both before and after the work of Grice have assumed that omniscience in analysis is a possible option , and analyses are produced that claim to speak for the general reader while also using biographical information on the author from an asserted privileged position ( much of the methodology and work of F.R. Leavis ( e.g. 1936 , 1967 ) and his followers is characterised by this approach ) . |
| 19 | It has consistently been assumed that Parliament can abolish the House of Lords , though in order to do so , a Bill to this effect would have to be passed . |
| 20 | Eckmire , anxious to be seen to be supportive of the departing champion , added : ‘ Our sponsorship position has always assumed that Nigel would be driving for Williams next year and we echo the British public 's sentiments . ’ |
| 21 | It was generally assumed that Chamberlain would prefer to sacrifice imperial interests in a compromise with Hitler , than to join the USSR in an anti-fascist alliance . |
| 22 | When the Liberals returned to power in 1892 , it was generally assumed that Ellis would receive government office . |
| 23 | It is usually assumed that teachers and heads are held to account but whether they are accountable to resource providers ( ratepayers , taxpayers , policy makers , administrators ) , customers ( pupils , parents , employers ) , or their professional colleagues , is ill-defined . |
| 24 | In this country , it is often assumed that teachers are a law unto themselves once they are inside the classroom and that it is their professional training and sense of professional responsibility that are the chief influences on their practice . |
| 25 | She had assumed that Harry Martin was behind it all , but who was to say if Luke Calder had n't coldly and calculatedly planned the whole thing ? |
| 26 | This point will , however , be ignored until Chapter 10 , and in the meantime it will be assumed that profit maximisation is in the social interest regardless of the particular market structure within which the company operates . |
| 27 | Though she had no personal experience , she had always assumed that Jake would be a man of vigorous sexual appetites . |
| 28 | However , as explained , such problems are often symptoms of deeper organisational and management problems : ‘ It is often assumed that stress is caused by too much work or tasks that are too difficult , but it is more likely to be because staff do n't have a context for what they are doing . ’ |
| 29 | We have always assumed that animal protein was the necessary kind for human health . |
| 30 | It was assumed that shareholders would have a long-term commitment to their company and that if there was a problem , it would be the directors rather than the shareholders who would change . |