Example sentences of "was assume [that] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mistake was to assume that the Labour party would provide a more receptive political vehicle for his ideas than the Conservatives . |
| 2 | This was to assume that the Danish people would change their minds of their own volition ; that they had been so overcome by the enormity of what they had done that they would hardly be able to wait to get back to the polling stations to put it all right . |
| 3 | When Peter Sharp , sixty-one , Manhattan hotelier and real estate developer , died in April 1992 , it was assumed that the Metropolitan Museum would receive his collection as a bequest . |
| 4 | It was assumed that the following variables would influence issuance ( bearing in mind that the level of issuance observed results both from demand and supply influences ) . |
| 5 | It was assumed that the liquid discharge would disperse and be rendered harmless . |
| 6 | It was assumed that the Korean people would docilely accept trusteeship with decisions being taken for them by their American and Soviet masters . |
| 7 | it was assumed that the segment-locating process is purely statistical , but this would only be true if ΔΕ 12 was zero ; |
| 8 | The first stages of the French Revolution seemed to be more obviously under reasonable management and it was assumed that the French would set up some sort of parliamentary government under the control of gentlemen . |
| 9 | After the establishment of an independent Germany and Italy , it was assumed that the national question , as a progressive issue , was now past in Europe ; only reactionaries would continue to try to resurrect it . |
| 10 | Rationalisation and reform were felt to be needed , and it was assumed that the resulting improvements would benefit all the interested parties . |
| 11 | For nearly a century it was assumed that the primitive vertebrate armour consisted of scales and small polygonal bony plates . |