Example sentences of "were take to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main environmental factors were taken to be the effect of market forces on such things as staff recruitment , purchase of materials , and course demand , etc , constrained by the long-term contractual obligations to existing teaching and non-teaching staff . |
| 2 | Three fans were placed in this category on the basis of lengthy observation and in accord with what were taken to be the appropriate criteria for judging such people . |
| 3 | Organisations ' insured costs were taken to be the cost of insurance premiums covering the period of study . |
| 4 | Although in actual practice the Formalists tended to concentrate on the formal qualities of literature , this was because formal devices were taken to be the means whereby defamiliarization was realized . |
| 5 | There can be little doubt that this explanation of internal organization is an explanation of those authoritative aspects of management in real-world firms that , earlier in this chapter , were taken to be the sine qua non of Coase 's ( 1937 ) definition of a firm . [ … ] |