Example sentences of "taken [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until recently , emphasis was most commonly placed on the object as gift in the tradition of Mauss , but some consideration is now also being given to what is too often taken merely as the gift 's antithesis , that is the commodity . |
| 2 | the ‘ library of the future ’ or the ‘ virtual library ’ , taken broadly as the entire set of information resources and facilities , bringing in other stakeholders , such as computing centres , media centres , film and data archives , museums , electronic information providers , and telecommunication networks ; |
| 3 | the ‘ library ’ taken narrowly as the traditional collection of books , journals and a wide range of other media , with its existing set of facilities , operations and services ; |
| 4 | In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action ! |
| 5 | These include relative isolation , taken as more than 20 km from urban areas ; social class , defined as the proportion of the population in the registrar general 's classes I and II ; density of children , taken crudely as the number of enumeration districts in a given sector having 100 or more children ( postcode sectors are fairly large , and acreages of enumeration districts are not available ) ; and increases from 1971 to 1981 in the numbers of men working away from home in the construction and energy industries ( ‘ recent oil impact measure ’ ) . |