Example sentences of "be taken as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 2 | The occasion of a partner leaving or joining the firm should always be taken as the opportunity to update the provisions of the agreement and , since each single provision is properly looked at in the context of the entire document , it is the whole agreement which should then be reconsidered and not simply isolated clauses . |
| 3 | Erm the editors say that , and I rely upon this because it 's important in my submission , that it is submitted that a wider view might be taken as the function of a solicitor as expert witnesses . |
| 4 | But these pronouncements should not be taken as the fount of all wisdom . |
| 5 | However , the NIAAF are emphasising that the number travelling to Holland is not to be taken as the number likely to go the Commonwealth Games . |
| 6 | The opening phrase " The poor young man is significant in this respect : since it can hardly be treated as Pemberton 's own self-pitying assessment of himself , it must be taken as the author 's narrative voice ; and thus establishes , from the beginning , a relation between the author and the main character which is at the same time sympathetic and distanced . |
| 7 | The way a poet 's mind works when he is being most a poet may be taken as the model of the process that operates as democracy in the political field and as education in the psychological field … |
| 8 | The current expenditure on these tax benefits would be taken as the cash ceiling . |
| 9 | ‘ Shake ’ could be taken as the fear the poet has for the ‘ cold ’ of oncoming death and ‘ ruined ’ illuminates the idea of deterioration . |
| 10 | If physics is to be taken as the acme of scientific knowledge , then it would make sense to try to emulate the methods that physics uses to gain its knowledge , and where else could one go for this by way of a shortcut but to philosophy , the discipline that has been endlessly preoccupied with the foundations of human knowledge . |
| 11 | The idea of ‘ flooded classrooms ’ might be taken as the product of bureaucratic desperation . |
| 12 | The buoyancy force is provided by δρ c ( which is , in the first place , the difference between upgoing and downgoing fingers , but , in view of the above discussion , may be taken as the difference between top and bottom ) . |
| 13 | I think I need to say on that , that that should not be taken as the county council sitting on the fence between two opposing er extremes . |
| 14 | In classrooms where such a pattern exists personal pace and achievement can be taken as the yardstick against which learning is measured . |
| 15 | If the core makes up a closed circuit as shown in Fig. 4.7(a) then l should be taken as the length along the dotted line and eqn ( 4.43 ) is still applicable . |
| 16 | The figure of 165,000 could be taken as the basis for further negotiation , because no one could tell how regular recruiting would go . |
| 17 | It is , however , the financial losses of retirement from the labour force that seem usually to be taken as the key to the involuntary shift from independence to dependency in old age . |
| 18 | Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) . |
| 19 | Most individual actors do not rely upon their own judgment of whether they are doing well in the action , but refer to certain members whose real or even fancied reactions are taken as the expression of binding judgments of propriety . |
| 20 | Because of those changes , I do not in fact any longer agree with Jenkins and Kramarae that white middle-class speakers are taken as the norm in sociolinguistics . |
| 21 | If these ideas are taken together , and if three centuries of physics and chemistry are taken as the model to emulate , it is tempting to suggest that it really does not matter what the actors on the international scene have in their minds . |
| 22 | This is the first ever attempt to reassemble those pictures which Monet painted and exhibited in series , and which have been taken as the epitome of his desire for ‘ instaneity ’ . |
| 23 | Just as The Waste Land had once been taken as the expression of a " disillusioned " generation , in spite of Eliot 's disavowals of any such intention , so " East Coker " seemed to be an expression of historical continuity at a time when it was most threatened : the retreat from France in May of that year aroused fears of a German invasion of England itself . |
| 24 | Built by Justinian as the centre of Christian worship , this miraculous embodiment of space had been converted by the victorious Turks , with only minor modifications , into their foremost mosque and had been taken as the prototype for others which they built . |
| 25 | Point Five has been taken as the benchmark ice gully climb , and would be graded V , 5 under the new system . |
| 26 | The total carbon content has , therefore , been taken as the carbon content and quoted as a percentage weight . |
| 27 | For this purpose , the 5th centile values of the distal ( <44 mm Hg ) and mid-oesophageal ( <36 mm Hg ) peristaltic amplitudes and the lower oesophageal sphincter pressure ( <9 mm Hg ) and the 95th centile of the percentage of failed peristalsis ( >26.9% ) were taken as the cut off points for abnormality . |
| 28 | Rather than creative individuals being taken as the starting-point , the individuals targeted initially were people who had been diagnosed as having had a mental illness , either a severe ( manic-depressive ) form of affective disorder or the milder , but aetiologically related , mood swings of ‘ cyclothymia ’ . |
| 29 | If £5 be taken as the minimum above which there can be no question as to their status , it is noteworthy that half the Babergh men in this category worked in the skilled finishing trades . |
| 30 | 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 . |