Example sentences of "be defined as [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In thus questioning whether poverty should be defined as existence in conditions below the barest subsistence minimum , or whether a higher minimum standard should be established in the interests of humanity and of aiming for high national standards of comfort and efficiency , Bowley and his colleagues raised for the first time some of the problems concerning the definition of poverty , which have remained at issue ever since . |
| 2 | To reiterate the point just made , this is not an argument about the functional necessity for all societies to have a category of ‘ crime ’ but an argument about the positive qualities of what happens to be defined as crime under capitalism ; indeed , the argument is usually combined with the assumption that under socialism there would be no such thing as crime . |
| 3 | ‘ Growth is defined as change in an organisation 's size , when size is measured by the organisation 's membership or employment ; development is defined as change in an organisation 's age . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Growth is defined as change in an organisation 's size , when size is measured by the organisation 's membership or employment ; development is defined as change in an organisation 's age . ’ |
| 5 | In addition , some clauses are regulated differently according to whether the contract is made with a person dealing as a consumer or with a non-consumer. ( a ) Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 The scope of the Act The UCTA 1977 applies to clauses which seek to restrict or exclude " business liability " , which is defined as liability for breach of obligations or duties arising — ( a ) from things done or to be done … in the course of a business … ; or ( b ) from the occupation of premises used for business purposes of the occupier … |
| 6 | The yield to maturity spread is defined as Yield to maturity spread = rmf - rmb. ( 5.65 ) |
| 7 | Political behaviour is defined as behaviour by individuals , or , in collective terms , by sub-units , within an organisation that makes a claim against the resource sharing system of an organisation . |
| 8 | Ownership of the freehold is defined as ownership in ’ fee simple absolute in possession ’ and under the Crown land held by a freeholder is in perpetuity as absolute owner . |
| 9 | If truancy is defined as absence from school unauthorised by parents , then concentrating only on unauthorised absence could lull a school into a false sense of security . |
| 10 | Obesity is defined as weight above the ninety-seventh centile compared to normal height or more than 20 per cent above the mean weight for the child 's age . |
| 11 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
| 12 | This moment is defined as noon on local time . |
| 13 | Complicated appendicitis was defined as appendicitis with histopathological evidence of perforation or gangrenous change . |
| 14 | Adequate compliance was defined as ingestion of at least 70% of the tablets prescribed . |
| 15 | Treatment failure was defined as evidence by endoscopy of a recurrent duodenal ulcer crater . |
| 16 | Ultimate haemostasis was defined as lack of rebleeding for 30 days after treatment . |
| 17 | Severe chronic constipatiown was defined as constipation without bowel obstruction , lasting for more than 18 months , not responding to high fibre diets , with less than two bowel movements per week and without an alternating bowel habit ( diarrhoea and constipation ) . |
| 18 | Complete remission was defined as resolution of clinical evidence of disease and of endoscopic lesions , with negative biopsy specimens and absence of extragastric localisation . |
| 19 | Partial remission was defined as improvement of clinical symptoms and endoscopic lesions with a decrease in tumoral infiltration . |
| 20 | Achalasia was defined as failure of relaxation of a hypertensive or normal lower oesophageal sphincter with absent peristalsis in the oesophageal body . |
| 21 | A good response to treatment was defined as restoration of continence or a decrease of at least 75% in frequency of incontinence . |