Example sentences of "be defined as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women of outstanding reputation in any field were at risk , since almost any women 's accomplishment could be defined as witchcraft . ’ |
| 2 | Regalism can best be defined as Erastianism and it represented little more than the modernization and systematization of the traditional claim of the crown to control what it considered the temporal aspects of church government . |
| 3 | Private law might be defined as law regulating the relations of private persons , whether individuals , corporations , or unincorporated associations , with one another . |
| 4 | ‘ Capital ’ may be defined as money used to finance the production of commodities for private gain . |
| 5 | The touching conditions can be defined as boundary conditions to these six zoned states ( see Figure 2.1 I ) . |
| 6 | In thus questioning whether poverty should be defined as existence in conditions below the barest subsistence minimum , or whether a higher minimum standard should be established in the interests of humanity and of aiming for high national standards of comfort and efficiency , Bowley and his colleagues raised for the first time some of the problems concerning the definition of poverty , which have remained at issue ever since . |
| 7 | Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse . |
| 8 | It is only when the frequency and magnitude of each behaviour is sufficiently marked and sufficiently prolonged to impede the child himself in his daily life or cause distress to his family or community that it can be defined as disorder ( Rutter et al. , 1970 ) . |
| 9 | Evidence can be defined as information which establishes or disproves a fact or a point in question . |
| 10 | In time , the results may look coherent enough to be defined as Majorism . |
| 11 | To reiterate the point just made , this is not an argument about the functional necessity for all societies to have a category of ‘ crime ’ but an argument about the positive qualities of what happens to be defined as crime under capitalism ; indeed , the argument is usually combined with the assumption that under socialism there would be no such thing as crime . |
| 12 | The moral debate about what should be defined as crime is a debate about what we think is undesirable , and should not therefore be tolerated . |
| 13 | In addition to this descriptive overview , issues which will also be discussed include : the relationship between ‘ theory ’ and ‘ practice ’ in crime prevention ; how and why activities come to be defined as crime prevention activities ; changes in the role of crime prevention officers and the increasing importance ( in theory , at least ) of crime prevention in the work of all police officers ; liaison with non-police bodies including crime prevention panels , neighbourhood watch schemes , schools etc. , and finally , the use of new technology in the prevention of crime . |
| 14 | This may be defined as care provided by family , friends and neighbours which is not organized via a statutory or voluntary agency and is not undertaken for financial reward . |
| 15 | The Council became a genuinely learning process , and once the name of the game had been defined as aggiornamento , once ecumenical understanding and co-operation with other Christians had been moved from the presupposition of ‘ dangerous ’ to that of ‘ Christian ’ and ‘ highly desirable ’ , there developed for a while a new logic which could not easily be denied . |
| 16 | Therefore , the actions which are defined as criminal will vary with different social settings — in different societies and different periods of time . |
| 17 | These were defined as antegrade or retrograde based on their aborad or orad propagation respectively . |
| 18 | ‘ Growth is defined as change in an organisation 's size , when size is measured by the organisation 's membership or employment ; development is defined as change in an organisation 's age . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Growth is defined as change in an organisation 's size , when size is measured by the organisation 's membership or employment ; development is defined as change in an organisation 's age . ’ |
| 20 | In addition , some clauses are regulated differently according to whether the contract is made with a person dealing as a consumer or with a non-consumer. ( a ) Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 The scope of the Act The UCTA 1977 applies to clauses which seek to restrict or exclude " business liability " , which is defined as liability for breach of obligations or duties arising — ( a ) from things done or to be done … in the course of a business … ; or ( b ) from the occupation of premises used for business purposes of the occupier … |
| 21 | The yield to maturity spread is defined as Yield to maturity spread = rmf - rmb. ( 5.65 ) |
| 22 | Political behaviour is defined as behaviour by individuals , or , in collective terms , by sub-units , within an organisation that makes a claim against the resource sharing system of an organisation . |
| 23 | Ownership of the freehold is defined as ownership in ’ fee simple absolute in possession ’ and under the Crown land held by a freeholder is in perpetuity as absolute owner . |
| 24 | Need is defined as self reported illness and the data are derived from the General Household Survey . |
| 25 | Either method — If recurrence is defined as stone detection by either imaging technique , the total number was 26 which corresponds , by LTA , to 8.5 ( 3.1 ) % at six months , 17.4 ( 4.2 ) % at 12 months , 22.8 ( 4.7 ) % at 18 months , 25.7 ( 5.0 ) % at 24 months , 36.4 ( 6.2 ) % at 36 months , and 41.0 ( 7.2 ) % at 42 and subsequent months . |
| 26 | The Hubble radius is defined as formula ; and j l ( x ) are the Legendre polynomial and spherical Bessel functions of order l , respectively . |
| 27 | As well as differing from place to place , what is defined as crime changes over time . |
| 28 | The different sense of ‘ the functions of crime ’ — that sometimes what is defined as crime includes activities that some may regard as useful and beneficial — relates to an issue that has long confronted socialists : what is the status of crime and criminals under capitalism ? |
| 29 | In Chapter 1 I suggested that these two sides to our rational self-interestedness imply that we have an ambiguous , fluctuating relationship with whatever is defined as crime and conformity . |
| 30 | If truancy is defined as absence from school unauthorised by parents , then concentrating only on unauthorised absence could lull a school into a false sense of security . |