Example sentences of "taken as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Strike is often taken as the symbol of 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A period of a week will usually suffice for this purpose after which a stock-take is conducted and the level taken as the opening stock . |
| 4 | The shortest exposure time at which the subject succeeds better than 97.5 per cent is taken as the inspection time , with short inspection times being indicative of high intelligence . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But these pronouncements should not be taken as the fount of all wisdom . |
| 7 | Here we present a simple hierarchical model which also relaxes the assumptions of constant returns to scale and perfect competition , although we revert to the assumption of a single factor , labour , which is taken as the numeraire . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For each year of the forecast the previous year 's level of service is taken as the base ; that is then modified by additions representing new policies and subtractions reflecting the closure of activities that have already been agreed to during the year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Others again have taken as the play 's essence the need to reconcile not truth and falsehood but competing truths . |
| 13 | p<0.05 was taken as the level of significance . |
| 14 | Every 10 minutes , three images of the gall bladder were taken and the mean of the three measurements was taken as the response at this time point . |
| 15 | The productivity index , for this purpose , was taken as the company income divided by the personnel strength of the company . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A linear decrease in refractive index is observed as the temperature increases , and as the transition is passed , the rate of decrease becomes greater ; T g is again taken as the intersection of the linear extrapolation . |
| 19 | It is not clear why the age of 65 was taken as the cut-off point for these screening programmes . |
| 20 | With the plans from the deeds , measure the four boundaries and check the precise alignment of fences and hedges ( the centre of a hedge is usually taken as the boundary position , but not always ) . |
| 21 | If P is taken as the vapour pressure of a solution whose pure solvent vapour pressure is P o , then for solutions containing an involatile solute which gives |
| 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 | This is taken as the RPI value 8 months before issue and each coupon is adjusted on the basis of the inflation which occurred during the half-year which ended 8 months before the coupon is due to be paid . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The figure of 165,000 could be taken as the basis for further negotiation , because no one could tell how regular recruiting would go . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In classrooms where such a pattern exists personal pace and achievement can be taken as the yardstick against which learning is measured . |
| 30 | 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 . |