Example sentences of "[was/were] assumed that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the British Army , discipline was centred around self-discipline , and it was assumed that each man had enough self-discipline to carry out an order without being told twice .
2 In 1990 , it was assumed that each assistant would average twenty items a minute ( Cutter and Rowe 1990 ) .
3 The widespread nature of the process took people by surprise ; it was assumed that metropolitan growth was a permanent feature of modern society .
4 It was assumed that all learning could be reduced to a series of conditioned reflexes .
5 The late fifties and early sixties , when I lived in Windsor Great Park , were creative and critical in manner : the established order was questioned ( sometimes cynically ) , but it was assumed that well-directed idealism could change human society .
6 It was assumed that any erosion terraces would show as modes in the frequency distribution .
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