Example sentences of "is define as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | The yield to maturity spread is defined as Yield to maturity spread = rmf - rmb. ( 5.65 ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Need is defined as self reported illness and the data are derived from the General Household Survey . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Hubble radius is defined as formula ; and j l ( x ) are the Legendre polynomial and spherical Bessel functions of order l , respectively . |
| 10 | As well as differing from place to place , what is defined as crime changes over time . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This moment is defined as noon on local time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |