Example sentences of "be defined as [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Adequate compliance was defined as ingestion of at least 70% of the tablets prescribed . |
| 3 | Ultimate haemostasis was defined as lack of rebleeding for 30 days after treatment . |
| 4 | Complete remission was defined as resolution of clinical evidence of disease and of endoscopic lesions , with negative biopsy specimens and absence of extragastric localisation . |
| 5 | Partial remission was defined as improvement of clinical symptoms and endoscopic lesions with a decrease in tumoral infiltration . |
| 6 | Achalasia was defined as failure of relaxation of a hypertensive or normal lower oesophageal sphincter with absent peristalsis in the oesophageal body . |
| 7 | A good response to treatment was defined as restoration of continence or a decrease of at least 75% in frequency of incontinence . |