Example sentences of "[is] taken [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For students taking the American Studies strand , a particular feature of the course is the intercalary year which is taken at a university in the United States between the second and final years . |
| 2 | The third dimension is taken at a paraline angle to the horizontal . |
| 3 | Consider for example : ( 10 ) Haberup made his golem angry If Haberup is the person who originally assembles the golem , he may , through design or carelessness , have produced it so as to start its " life " in an unpleasant frame of mind ; sentence ( 10 ) will describe this situation on condition that the adjective is taken as a predicate qualifier , and in this case ( 10 ) does have a matching question with how ? |
| 4 | Even today , when the tottering of a Goldcrest or TESE is taken as a sign that the film industry is going under , it 's assumed that big companies are the key to surviving in the film business , because that 's the way they do things in LA . |
| 5 | In a similar fashion a refusal to participate in quality control circles through which management make labour responsible for product quality , is taken as a sign of selfishness . |
| 6 | Professor Foot said : ‘ Laughter and the ability to enjoy a sense of fun is taken as a sign of healthy well-being . |
| 7 | This is a major problem in the Sahel zone where cash cropping has been mooted by Earth Report ( 1988 ) as one of the major causes of environmental degradation , and while the case presented may be oversimplified it is worth reiterating since cash cropping in general is not ( if past performance is taken as a measure ) the answer to Africa 's development problems . |
| 8 | The extent to which they try to run towards the red compared with the yellow is taken as a measure of how strongly they have been imprinted . |
| 9 | Or , it could mean ‘ earth ’ as in man , which would agree with the word ‘ clay ’ in line 5 , if ‘ clay ’ is taken as a description of biblical man . |
| 10 | The temperature at a pressure of 1 bar is taken as a reference point from which , using the adiabatic lapse-rates of the particular mix of materials at each depth and their equations of state ( section 2.1.4 ) , calculations are made of the temperatures pressures and densities at greater depths . |
| 11 | Accolate , which is taken as a pill , could be it . |
| 12 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 13 | To put what I am saying in more concrete terms : the dialect poetry of the Lancashire miner , say , is taken as a product of his particular cultural experience , which is different from the experience of public schoolboys or Rastafarians . |
| 14 | While being called matapang is taken as a compliment among Tagalog-speaking lowlanders , it describes fierce or dangerous men , ready to fight without regard to personal danger , rather than those willing to risk themselves for others . |
| 15 | It is taken as a compliment because a man with a reputation as dangerous will be respected . |
| 16 | For obvious reasons , garlic essence is not usually employed in aromatherapy massage ( though it has been known ! ) but instead , is taken as a medicine in the form of garlic capsules . |
| 17 | Whether his comment is taken as a malapropism or a keen insight , the view of one charge nurse that the hospital had become ‘ an archival thing ’ was apposite . |
| 18 | It is difficult to quantify " work " exactly , but if the number of individual multiplications is taken as a guide , then , if A is of order n , each of the n2 elements of unc involves n multiplications : i.e. n3 in all . |
| 19 | At each successive stage the file created below is taken as a starting point . |
| 20 | This is the ratio of the combination of those aged 65 + ( or whatever age is taken as a proxy for entry into later life ) and those aged 0 — 15 to those of working age ( i.e. 16 — 64 ) . |
| 21 | If , rather differently , serving the interests of the enterprise is taken as a proxy for maximising the joint welfare of the relevant groups the formulation is unsatisfactory for this purpose because it contains an inherent bias towards the shareholders . |
| 22 | If the experience of the National Bus Company , which was privatised in England is taken as a model , we can be sure that privatised subsidiary companies will not index-link future pension rights for their employees in the way that TOPS has done for Scottish Transport Group employees . |
| 23 | If the experience of the National Bus Company , which was privatised in England is taken as a model , we can be sure that privatised subsidiary companies will not index-link future pension rights for their employees in the way that TOPS has done for Scottish Transport Group employees . |
| 24 | Its title in French , La Jalousie , means both jealousy and window shutter or blind ; so from the outset the reader is taken into a maze of contending meanings . |
| 25 | At first glimpse it may not even appear to be armoured , but if the animal is taken into a predator 's mouth its fur is sufficiently spiky to cause acute discomfort and it is quickly dropped . |
| 26 | The practical effects on the reporting unit can be seen more readily when a proprietary view is taken of a group of companies . |
| 27 | Similarly , if a child with bacterial diarrhoea is taken to a health clinic and prescribed a necessary course of antibiotics , the mother might be unwilling to give them to the child if her hot/cold classification of the antibiotics conflicts with her classification of the type of diarrhoea . |
| 28 | If the horse is taken to a show , or event , or some other unfamiliar place , its apprehension automatically increases . |
| 29 | The above procedure is pursuant to s395 of the Companies Act 1985 , and where a mortgage is taken against a company , it is vital that the above steps are followed . |
| 30 | This Arts Council touring collection of 29 prints is taken from a portfolio printed in 1905 by the German editor Strolin . |