Example sentences of "defined as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only on the assumption that public ownership , defined as ownership by the State or by the local authority is in the particular case an overriding need , does the requirement of accountability to the community arise . |
| 2 | Ownership of the freehold is defined as ownership in ’ fee simple absolute in possession ’ and under the Crown land held by a freeholder is in perpetuity as absolute owner . |
| 3 | Bargaining is synonymous with trading or dealing and may be briefly defined as participation in mutually beneficial transactions . |
| 4 | ‘ Capital ’ may be defined as money used to finance the production of commodities for private gain . |
| 5 | Treatment failure was defined as evidence by endoscopy of a recurrent duodenal ulcer crater . |
| 6 | Adequate compliance was defined as ingestion of at least 70% of the tablets prescribed . |
| 7 | The age standardised prevalence of microalbuminuria ( defined as albumin excretion rate 20–200 µg/min ) by thirds of height in the European men was 4.3% in the lowest third , 4.6% in the middle third , and 2.5% in the highest third ( NS ) . |
| 8 | The most commonly used measure for assessing overall performance in the private sector is to divide profit before the deduction of interest and a provision for taxation by capital employed , defined as share capital plus long-term debt . |
| 9 | They estimate that in the 250 largest corporations , a $1,000 increase in corporate value ( defined as share price appreciation plus dividends ) produces an increase in the salary and bonus of the chief executive over a two year period of less than 10 cents , and share options add only another 58 cents . |
| 10 | Complicated appendicitis was defined as appendicitis with histopathological evidence of perforation or gangrenous change . |
| 11 | Either method — If recurrence is defined as stone detection by either imaging technique , the total number was 26 which corresponds , by LTA , to 8.5 ( 3.1 ) % at six months , 17.4 ( 4.2 ) % at 12 months , 22.8 ( 4.7 ) % at 18 months , 25.7 ( 5.0 ) % at 24 months , 36.4 ( 6.2 ) % at 36 months , and 41.0 ( 7.2 ) % at 42 and subsequent months . |
| 12 | Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse . |
| 13 | If music is like a language , if it communicates some kind of emotional or spiritual message , then noise is best defined as interference , something which blocks transmission , jams the code , prevents sense being made . |
| 14 | Ultimate haemostasis was defined as lack of rebleeding for 30 days after treatment . |
| 15 | Need is defined as self reported illness and the data are derived from the General Household Survey . |
| 16 | These were defined as antegrade or retrograde based on their aborad or orad propagation respectively . |
| 17 | Among the most serious are those now defined as rape ( sexual intercourse without consent ) , and about one-sixth of these cases involve the perpetration of further sexual indignities upon the victim . |
| 18 | The touching conditions can be defined as boundary conditions to these six zoned states ( see Figure 2.1 I ) . |
| 19 | Propagation velocity had to be neither more than 8.3 cm/s nor less than 1 cm/s ; ( 8 ) non-propagated contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as contraction waves that are not associated with a proximal contraction wave or have an apparent propagation velocity >8.3 cm/s . |
| 20 | The number of people attending sexually transmitted diseases clinics fell from 1103813 in 1987 to 877146 in 1991 , and the number with venereal diseases ( defined as syphilis , gonorrhoea , chancroid , and lymphogranuloma venereum ) fell from 410406 to 182024 . |
| 21 | Private law might be defined as law regulating the relations of private persons , whether individuals , corporations , or unincorporated associations , with one another . |
| 22 | Regalism can best be defined as Erastianism and it represented little more than the modernization and systematization of the traditional claim of the crown to control what it considered the temporal aspects of church government . |
| 23 | Women of outstanding reputation in any field were at risk , since almost any women 's accomplishment could be defined as witchcraft . ’ |
| 24 | Eradication was defined as inability to show H pylori four weeks or more after discontinuation of study treatment by all four tests . |
| 25 | War is usually defined as conflict — or fighting between nations , however , this is not always so . |
| 26 | Political behaviour is defined as behaviour by individuals , or , in collective terms , by sub-units , within an organisation that makes a claim against the resource sharing system of an organisation . |
| 27 | In thus questioning whether poverty should be defined as existence in conditions below the barest subsistence minimum , or whether a higher minimum standard should be established in the interests of humanity and of aiming for high national standards of comfort and efficiency , Bowley and his colleagues raised for the first time some of the problems concerning the definition of poverty , which have remained at issue ever since . |
| 28 | ‘ Growth is defined as change in an organisation 's size , when size is measured by the organisation 's membership or employment ; development is defined as change in an organisation 's age . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Growth is defined as change in an organisation 's size , when size is measured by the organisation 's membership or employment ; development is defined as change in an organisation 's age . ’ |
| 30 | In addition , some clauses are regulated differently according to whether the contract is made with a person dealing as a consumer or with a non-consumer. ( a ) Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 The scope of the Act The UCTA 1977 applies to clauses which seek to restrict or exclude " business liability " , which is defined as liability for breach of obligations or duties arising — ( a ) from things done or to be done … in the course of a business … ; or ( b ) from the occupation of premises used for business purposes of the occupier … |