Example sentences of "[adv] take to be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is usually taken to be the author of a polished English version of Alain Chartier 's poem ‘ La Belle Dame Sans Mercy ’ , a fashionable contribution to the courtly debate about love provoked by the Roman de la Rose . |
| 2 | But something is still needed to explain Nietzsche 's willingness to commit himself so totally at this particular time ; and the November meeting , usually taken to be the cause , can not by itself have been sufficient . |
| 3 | In syntactic theory , the verb is often taken to be the head of the sentence , but for our purposes , as we shall see , there are reasons for casting the subject in this role . |
| 4 | The total perimeter was then taken to be the sum of the outer shape with the inner shape perimeter , whilst the total area was taken to be the difference between the outer and inner areas . |
| 5 | Research is commonly taken to be the specialist and reserved occupation of theorists , an activity which is carried out in detachment from the immediacy of actual events and requiring knowledge and expertise of a kind which only academic intellectuals can legitimately claim to have . |