1.   The Discovery of Paternity Many people assume patriarchy developed when men discovered their importance in human reproduction.

2.   The patina the bronzes had acquired during burial was much admired, and people assumed that they had originally been patinated.

3.   Some people assume that the way to bring about improvement is to make the change small enough so that nobody will notice it.

4.   People assume that parents and children will understand each other.

5.   We started accumulating works of art and people just assumed I was in the business.

6.   And people should not assume there had been a miscarriage of justice.

7.   Many hearing people assume that sign language is the same the world over.

8.   People assumed Jack had not turned up to hear shanties written in his honour.

9.   Although many people assume that art students would fill their rooms with their artwork, the opposite is usually true.