Example sentences of "taken as the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Strike is often taken as the symbol for the industrial relations of these years — and is seen as an event which brought to an end the militant trade unionism of almost two decades . |
| 2 | Otherwise 100 litres is taken as the base for the highest consumption process and for the others doses are expressed proportional to the highest level . |
| 3 | The figure of 165,000 could be taken as the basis for further negotiation , because no one could tell how regular recruiting would go . |
| 4 | Outcomes for the children and young people were analysed according to the legal route which was taken as the basis for the child 's admission into care . |
| 5 | If ‘ mentioned-in-the-text ’ is taken as the basis for selection of discourse subjects , it should be noted that the analyst is , in fact , attempting to reconstitute the presupposition pool which the participants must have had prior to the discourse fragment being analysed . |
| 6 | 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 . |