Example sentences of "define as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported on Sept. 21 , 1990 , that the Paris Club had launched a strategy offering more favourable terms for lower-middle-income countries ( defined as countries with per capita incomes of between US$700and $1,000 ) . |
| 2 | They are class-blind , in that the programme may reach only a minority , and separates this elite from the bulk of girls who are defined as failures and frequently pushed into opposition to the school 's programme . |
| 3 | Patients requiring more than 10 units of blood on a single admission were defined as failures of sclerotherapy and were referred for surgery — the type of operation being left to the discretion of the clinician involved . |
| 4 | Ergonomics can be defined as systems design with the attributes of people as the frame of reference . |
| 5 | It is likely that they will seek this support from other women rather than from men , even their husbands , because the tasks involved have been defined as women 's work . |
| 6 | Within the model coordinate system these are defined as variations in X , Z , AY and AZ . |
| 7 | The number of mainframe systems , defined as machines costing over $1m , was down 1% , with 3,990 units installed compared with 4,015 in 1991 . |
| 8 | They are defined as firms or enterprises whose final output is in some sense non-material , irrespective of the types of occupation that make up a firm 's labour force . |
| 9 | We have already argued that the concept of a syndrome is not of use as far as theoretical analysis of language disorders is concerned , because it is not the case that a small number of syndromes ( defined as sets of symptoms which always co-occur ) actually exist . |
| 10 | The following are defined as matters of common interest ‘ for the purposes of achieving the objectives of the Union ’ : |
| 11 | Where E(Y) is the expected income ( defined as earnings before interest and taxes ) , B is the market value of debt used by the company in its financial structure and k b is the rate of interest born by that debt . |
| 12 | This point is exemplified with reference to tense and mood variation in Spanish si clauses ( see 50–52 above ) ; Lavandera points out that although the alternants may be defined as variants of an underlying variable in the sense that they are truth-conditional semantic equivalents , and pattern according to external social factors , they differ in modal meaning ( see Huddleston 1984 : 165 for a discussion of these semantic issues ) . |
| 13 | Kempson 's emerging model ( ESRC project R/000/23/1220 ) assumes that the grammar defines a mapping from natural language sentences onto logical representations which are not fully determined ( some aspects of interpretation being defined as constraints which interact with pragmatic processes ) . |
| 14 | As a starting point , crime is defined as actions which are contrary to criminal law . |
| 15 | For example , the Heading tag might be defined as Times Roman 24pt on 26pt Bold Centred Unjustified . |
| 16 | Are they to be defined as refugees ? |
| 17 | A SCHEDULE or a PLAN are concepts which can be defined as entities . |
| 18 | In many cases , things that can be defined as entities could also be defined as attributes , and vice versa . |
| 19 | Who are defined as enemies and what action is taken against them varies from country to country and from time to time . |
| 20 | For instance , it is not difficult to think of linguistic features that could be defined as disfluencies . |
| 21 | Benefits are defined as improvements in life expectancy adjusted for changes in four key indicators of quality of life : physical mobility , capacity for self-care , freedom from pain and distress and social adjustment . |
| 22 | Bush declined to sign legislation put before him on Nov. 9 amending the 1983 " Orphan Drug Act " , a controversial law which granted market monopolies to companies producing drugs to treat rare diseases — defined as diseases which afflicted fewer than one in 200,000 of the population . |
| 23 | It asks why pupils have been categorized in terms of their sex or ‘ race ’ , why girls and black pupils have been defined as problems ; what is meant by racism and sexism within policy initiatives and it asks what are the consequences for teachers of labelling and categorizing problems in particular ways . |
| 24 | In Lewis and Harris there are 3,986 crofts ( grouped in 192 coastal townships ) , 292 ‘ eligible occupiers ’ ( small tenants not legally defined as crofters ) , and 13 other agricultural holdings . |
| 25 | For example , in the Chart diagram in Fig 3.1. , valid paths at the syntactic level are defined as groups of syntactic categories . |
| 26 | We decided , therefore , that it was pupils who were absent without authorisation or explanation from parents who would be defined as truants . |
| 27 | In social work these can be defined as difficulties in personal and social functioning . |
| 28 | These ( OFIs ) are defined as institutions which ‘ obtain , convert and distribute available funds as their main activity ’ . |
| 29 | For instance , some actions are defined as criminal and others are not ; similarly some people are defined as criminals while others are seen as law-abiding . |
| 30 | The first task is to separate out cultivators , who are defined as landowners or tenants whose livelihood was in agriculture , usually the production of rice . |