Example sentences of "it [be] interpreted " in BNC.

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1 The meaning of democracy shifts even further once it is interpreted within the terms of the Calvinist principle of the Godly society , where it is the lot of the just to assume power and to guide the citizens in the paths of righteousness .
2 It is our only inspired authority , but it is interpreted through our leadership .
3 It is ‘ space to be ’ , when you gather up everything that crosses the threshold of your life and where it is interpreted in the light of your walk with God .
4 It is interpreted as a hinge-line during Jurassic-Cretaceous ( Cimmerian ) rift development forming the north-eastern edge of the Hewett Sub-Basin .
5 Whether a system with finitely many basic signals is a system of communication in the strong sense — that is , a linguistic system — depends on whether the characteristic behaviour within which and against which it is interpreted is complex enough to sustain attributions of higher-order beliefs and intentions to the creatures concerned .
6 Some inherent problems remain in a concept premised on the desirability of normality , in whatever sense it is interpreted .
7 But however it is Interpreted , by Freudian or other theory , most workers in the area of personality believe there is a connection between unresolved situations of this nature and difficulties in psycho-sexual development .
8 We have used the term ‘ vernacular ’ in a different way : for us it is a ‘ primitive ’ term roughly synonymous with ‘ real language in use ’ , and it is interpreted on a continuum of relative closeness to , or distance from , the idealized norm , or ( in some cases ) the idealized standard language .
9 In ‘ Shake , Rattle and Roll ’ , even if it is interpreted as totally devoid of the non-formulaic ( far-fetched , once one listens carefully to performance nuances ) , the collectivizing repetitions can take on a positive cultural significance , in the context of use by young working-class dancers .
10 The actual impact of any policy upon the public will depend upon how it is interpreted and put into practice by government officials .
11 In the case of the price elasticity of demand , since the products of the dominant firms and of the blenders are being treated as imperfect substitutes , it is interpreted as being the effect of an equiproportionate rise in the price of the two products on total fertilizer expenditure E. Therefore , letting and , where and are initial prices and P is the proportional change factor , the aggregate expenditure for fertilizers can be written as :
12 He said : ‘ We do not think that there should be any change in the law but there is a definite shift in the way it is interpreted and these guidelines reflect that movement towards a more compassionate interpretation of the law .
13 If it is a nice and finely balanced question whether the statute of wills is more consistent with traditional principles of law if it is interpreted to forbid murderers to inherit , then wrestling with that question is hardly a sensible way of deciding what most people would now favour .
14 Subsequently the Adoption Act of 1975 ( s. 8(7) , later section 12(6) of the Adoption Act 1976 ) made it more explicit that ‘ in making an adoption order a Court may impose such terms and conditions as it thinks fit ’ , but it was interpreted that any ‘ condition imposed should not impinge on the autonomy of adoptive parents ’ .
15 While he was referring to the Prince 's fawning friends , it was interpreted as a comment on the high staff turnover at Kensington Palace and Highgrove .
16 However , while it held sway it was interpreted on occasion to mean not just that there had been a breach of natural justice with no remedy available .
17 It was interpreted as marking a shift to the right , favouring " manager-bureaucrats " at the expense of supporters of former Deputy Prime Minister Alfonso Guerra ( who had resigned in January — see p. 37968 ) .
18 News of the donation reached the UK press by June 6 and prompted a hostile reaction , as it was interpreted as an attempt to compensate for the killing of a policewoman , Yvonne Fletcher , outside the Libyan People 's Bureau in London in April 1984 [ see pp. 33004-05 ] .
19 It was interpreted by most commentators as being indicative of the concern felt by members of the House ( all of whom faced re-election in November ) over the level of public anger arising from the enormous cost of the S&L rescue operation , currently estimated to have exceeded $88,000 million .
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