Example sentences of "[adv] defined as the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For being is always defined as the appropriation of either difference into identity , or of identities into a greater order , be it absolute knowledge , History , or the state .
2 Politics can be quite reasonably defined as the business of government and power in any society , whatever form they may take .
3 Momentum is a physical quantity which may be roughly defined as the product of the weight of the vehicle and its speed .
4 The role of the preposition has been described in the following way : The preposition can therefore be quite accurately defined as the type of word which is already predestined in tongue to intervene in discourse between two words separated by an interval which is not covered by a mechanism of incidence in operation …
5 We now see that the intermittency factor is most appropriately defined as the fraction of the time that vorticity fluctuations are occurring .
6 Control is widely defined as the ability to exercise a decisive influence over a company by any means .
7 A grapheme is here defined as the way in which a phoneme is represented in print .
8 The longer a person ( here defined as the head of the household ) is unemployed , the more likely it is that he or she will belong to the general labourer or other occupational groups .
9 The citation currency period for each cited thesis is here defined as the difference ( in years ) between the year of the last recorded citation , and that of the first .
10 This may be simply defined as the ability to discriminate highly contrasted figures from a distance .
11 The shoulder angle is simply defined as the angle between the upper arm and the torso when viewed from the front .
12 Stylistics , as Leech and Short point out ( 1981 , p. 13 ) , can be simply defined as the study of a style which is an exercise in describing what use is made of the language .
13 ( b ) Stylistics , as Leech and Short point out ( 1981 , p.13 ) , can be simply defined as the study of a style which is an exercise in describing what use is made of the language .
14 From that time which here and elsewhere has been vaguely defined as the dawn of civilisation , to the time when the need to have a ‘ god ’ had reached the point where traces of its implementation were left for modern man to find , must have been many thousands of years .
15 Effects were then defined as the difference between the grand median and the conditional fit .
16 The dependency ratio is then defined as the number in these age-groups as a proportion of the remaining population ( Ermisch 1983 ) ( Table I.1 ) .
17 MCTT was therefore defined as the interval between finishing the meal and the first of two sequential increases in breath hydrogen concentration 20 ppm over the base line .
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