Example sentences of "[be] taken as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be noted however , that this advice is not to be taken as suggesting that pupils must study these four Short Courses throughout S3/4 . |
| 2 | Usually the date of publication may be taken as given , but in a few cases — particularly where publication in book form follows several years after original research — imprint date should be compared against any dates given in the foreword or introduction . |
| 3 | There was to be no debate about which direction to take in economic policy ; the essentials of supply-side theory were to be taken as given and the criteria for appointment to the major economic policy posts were to be , ‘ competence , experience , and absolute , complete loyalty to Reagan 's economic policies … . |
| 4 | But the 's should not be taken as given : in particular , is dependent upon the money supply process . |
| 5 | Classical economic theory denies that those characteristics can be taken as given . |
| 6 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
| 7 | The enormous variety in the clinical descriptions of the primary sores , from ‘ dwarf to ‘ giant ’ , ‘ transient ’ to ‘ phagedenic ’ ( destructive of tissue ) , and follicular ’ to ‘ papular ’ might be taken as lending a little indirect support for this heresy . |
| 8 | That next we see Alison going to church : yet prepared for adultery , and , who knows , anticipating it in her mind , and with one of her attractions , her shining complexion , emphasized with her newly-washed forehead , might well be taken as creating an adverse moral perspective on Alison . |
| 9 | While I have not been a wildly flag-waving Canadian I am proud of my birthplace and continue to admire Canada and Canadians immensely , which sentiments must not be taken as damning with faint praise . |
| 10 | While stressing that nothing in the circular should be taken as condoning a wilful breach of planning law , there is a highly significant qualification : |
| 11 | Indeed in their paper in Physical Review Letters Aspect and his colleagues emphasise that the results ‘ can not be taken as providing the possibility of faster-than-light communication ’ . |
| 12 | On the question of the paramountcy of European Community law over UK law , Mr Zaphiriou misses the point that sec 2 ( 4 ) of the European Communities Act , 1972 , can be taken as providing that Community law is to prevail over both previous and subsequent British legislation ( p 11 ) . |
| 13 | The price level on other islands can no longer be taken as fixed at p but will be seen to have risen . |
| 14 | Instead , they should be taken as emphasising that the determinants of health — particularly as they affect life expectancy and the incidence of disease — are mainly environmental . |
| 15 | The area below the mihrab , which is knelt upon when praying , is known as the prayer field , and can be taken as symbolizing the floor of the mosque in front of the mihrab . |
| 16 | However , if one tries to envelop the noun phrase and the adjective in a single question , then , on the one hand , the result will usually or always be grammatical , because the verbs occurring in this construction can of course stand as ordinary transitive verbs , but , on the other , the question form will naturally be taken as related to the ordinary transitive verb with a simple noun phrase object — with a corresponding alteration in the meaning expressed ; ( 23 ) is an attempt to put such a question : ( 23 ) his sister set the owl free what did his sister set ? to which suitable answers could include the mousetrap or the first four questions . |
| 17 | The following minutes will be taken as forming part of the Contract Documents : = |
| 18 | The choice to concentrate on this period should not be taken as implying that coin designs are unimportant in the study of other cultures , for this is not at all the case . |
| 19 | In addition to these issues which arise from the nature of professional occupations and the control of professional courses , there are two other issues which lie at the heart of professional education , so much so indeed that they can be taken as defining characteristics of it . |
| 20 | The Circular points out that the decision should not be taken as sanctioning such advice given to such girls by teachers . |
| 21 | According to section 15 of the 1982 Act , if the union is sued for inducing breach of or interfering with contract , or for intimidation by threats to interfere with contract , or for conspiracy to commit these torts , then the act in question shall be taken to have been done by the union only if it was authorised or endorsed by a ‘ responsible person , ’ which means the principal executive committee , any person authorised by the rules to endorse acts of the kind in question , the president or general secretary , any other employed official , or any committee to which an employed official reports , but an act by an official or a committee to which he reports shall not be taken as authorised or endorsed if the official or committee was prevented from authorising or endorsing the act by union rules or if the act has been repudiated by the president or general secretary . |
| 22 | The only other alternative would be for the court to disregard one of the clauses and hold that one party had , by conduct , accepted the other party 's terms and waived its own , including the provision providing that it should not be taken as accepting any other terms . |
| 23 | Towards the top of the scale the relatively large number of prosperous husbandmen must be taken as reflecting the high overall level of wealth reinforced by the demand of the manufacturing population for food ; at the lower end the paucity of £2 assessments can almost certainly be attributed to the cottage farmers having turned over to weaving and kindred trades . |
| 24 | At one stage the text was altered in an attempt to make lines 15 and 16 clear ; these lines are ambiguous as they stand , and can be taken as approving of ‘ the light that never was , etc . ’ |
| 25 | They pointed out in their judgment that they did not wish to be taken as approving in any way the retention of corporal punishment . |
| 26 | Finally , it should be noted that s.14 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 , restating a rule first contained in the 1958 Act , provides that no provision in legislation prior to 1958 should be taken as ousting the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court , thus making clear the Government 's intention that all statutory tribunals should be subject to this jurisdiction regardless of whether other remedies are provided . |
| 27 | So , for example , ‘ All attributes which we ascribe to God are to be taken as denoting , not something special in God , but only something special in the manner in which the feeling of absolute dependence is to be related to him ’ . |
| 28 | This should be taken as referring to the office of head teacher , so that where a person is acting in place of the head teacher ( usually this will be the deputy head teacher ) , s/he will be able to exercise this power . |
| 29 | Section 4 provides : ( 1 ) A person applies a trade description to goods if he ( a ) affixes or annexes it to or in any manner marks it on or incorporates it with ( i ) the goods themselves or ( ii ) anything in , on or with which the goods are supplied ; or ( b ) places the goods in , on or with anything which the trade description has been affixed or annexed to , marked on or incorporated with , or places any such thing with the goods ; or ( c ) uses the trade description in any manner likely to be taken as referring to the goods . |
| 30 | Section 5(2) states that the trade description shall be taken as referring to all goods of the class , whether or not in existence at the time the advertisement is published . |