Sentence examples for assumed commonplace from inspiring English sources

Drivers are considered untrustworthy, and accidents assumed commonplace, he says.

Its central achievement is to allow us to appreciate the rare or extraordinary where we had previously assumed the commonplace.

Jefrey G Pirie Totnes, Devon As a child I assumed it commonplace for there to be a brown glass jar of potassium permanganate crystals in the china cabinet.

With the paranoia of my ethnic psyche running in the background, I assumed that my commonplace name was partly why she had managed to see a resemblance.

Although the idea of urban farming might be unknown to many people or just assumed to be commonplace in coastal areas such as San Francisco and Brooklyn, Detroit is becoming more about potatoes than pistons.

As a climate scientist, he said he and his peers assumed that surveillance was commonplace.

In the 20th century they became commonplace and assumed almost a uniform character throughout the world.

In the nineteen-fifties, the French film theorist and critic André Bazin wrote a series of influential articles on the history of film language in which the commonplace photographic measure of depth of field assumed an almost moral importance.

Where incarceration has become commonplace... the righteousness of the police is no longer assumed and a prison record is not distinctive.

Ever since Ronald Reagan said: "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help", it has been commonplace to assume that bureaucracy means government.

Assembled structures generally show weak nonlinearity, thus it is rather commonplace to assume that their modes are both linear and uncoupled.