Example sentences of "be defined as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Obesity is defined as weight above the ninety-seventh centile compared to normal height or more than 20 per cent above the mean weight for the child 's age . |
| 32 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
| 33 | This moment is defined as noon on local time . |
| 34 | If , for the same unit , we take another property , say trade union membership , then , similarly , this property space is defined as trade union member — not trade union member . |
| 35 | Finally , as we have shown earlier , what is defined as criminal varies across time and place , thus making it difficult to argue that in-built differences between the sexes can explain what is a variable phenomena . |
| 36 | Complicated appendicitis was defined as appendicitis with histopathological evidence of perforation or gangrenous change . |
| 37 | Eradication was defined as inability to show H pylori four weeks or more after discontinuation of study treatment by all four tests . |
| 38 | Chronic diarrhoea was defined as diarrhoea persisting for at least 14 days . |
| 39 | Adequate compliance was defined as ingestion of at least 70% of the tablets prescribed . |
| 40 | Treatment failure was defined as evidence by endoscopy of a recurrent duodenal ulcer crater . |
| 41 | Ultimate haemostasis was defined as lack of rebleeding for 30 days after treatment . |
| 42 | Severe chronic constipatiown was defined as constipation without bowel obstruction , lasting for more than 18 months , not responding to high fibre diets , with less than two bowel movements per week and without an alternating bowel habit ( diarrhoea and constipation ) . |
| 43 | Complete remission was defined as resolution of clinical evidence of disease and of endoscopic lesions , with negative biopsy specimens and absence of extragastric localisation . |
| 44 | Partial remission was defined as improvement of clinical symptoms and endoscopic lesions with a decrease in tumoral infiltration . |
| 45 | Achalasia was defined as failure of relaxation of a hypertensive or normal lower oesophageal sphincter with absent peristalsis in the oesophageal body . |
| 46 | Abnormal reflux was defined as pH <4 for more than 4.2% of the recording time . |
| 47 | A good response to treatment was defined as restoration of continence or a decrease of at least 75% in frequency of incontinence . |