Example sentences of "[is] taken as the " in BNC.

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1 If the percentage increase in eps is taken as the key measure , companies which begin with very low earnings have an unfair advantage .
2 Otherwise 100 litres is taken as the base for the highest consumption process and for the others doses are expressed proportional to the highest level .
3 The shortest exposure time at which the subject succeeds better than 97.5 per cent is taken as the inspection time , with short inspection times being indicative of high intelligence .
4 Otherwise , the vector scores of the words in the neighbourhood of the result are calculated and the word with the closest score is taken as the answer .
5 The first item in the list is taken as the root of the tree , so if it is built from an alphabetically ordered word list , a degenerate tree will result , where all the left pointers will be null ( Knuth , 1973 , p426 ; Claybrook , 1983 , p95 ) .
6 If Spencer is taken as the model it seems clear that Victorian evolutionary social theory was far from being collectivist in its orientation .
7 The element of cruelty in sadism — and in masochism , where the ego is taken as the object of the sadistic impulses — is difficult to account for .
8 Initially N is taken as the first partial remainder .
9 If ‘ mentioned-in-the-text ’ is taken as the basis for selection of discourse subjects , it should be noted that the analyst is , in fact , attempting to reconstitute the presupposition pool which the participants must have had prior to the discourse fragment being analysed .
10 For each year of the forecast the previous year 's level of service is taken as the base ; that is then modified by additions representing new policies and subtractions reflecting the closure of activities that have already been agreed to during the year .
11 In Braverman 's analysis , this ‘ separation of the intellectual faculties of the production process from manual labour ’ , or division between ‘ conception ’ and ‘ execution ’ , is taken as the fundamental and enduring feature of the capitalist division of labour .
12 If the state of uniform strain is taken as the comparison state with energy density in one phase and in the other , then , for a representative volume , for arbitrary .
13 But the fact remains that , even if the dominant is taken as the starting-point , a description of the relationships of all the components of a text would be potentially endless .
14 Here we present a simple hierarchical model which also relaxes the assumptions of constant returns to scale and perfect competition , although we revert to the assumption of a single factor , labour , which is taken as the numeraire .
15 This is taken as the RPI value 8 months before issue and each coupon is adjusted on the basis of the inflation which occurred during the half-year which ended 8 months before the coupon is due to be paid .
16 If P is taken as the vapour pressure of a solution whose pure solvent vapour pressure is P o , then for solutions containing an involatile solute which gives
17 The period of oscillation P is taken as the distance between adjacent maxima or minima and the amplitude A is a measure of the height from one minimum to the preceding maximum .
18 Textbooks on macroeconomics are written in which the assumption of full employment is taken as the starting-point .
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