Example sentences of "[be] defined as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Culture may be defined as those ideas , traditions , points of view and modes of behaviour which exist amongst a particular people , and which are transmitted , through learned behaviour , from generation to generation . |
| 2 | Picasso 's extensive series of variations on Las Meninas was produced in 1957 , but even if Gironella knew of them when he himself began to work on versions of Velázquez ( which is highly unlikely , as Picasso 's paintings were not exhibited until 1959 ) ; even though their interest in the art of the past at that point in their careers was for both , perhaps , a rejection of abstraction ; and even though both can in some way be defined as exiled from their Spanish roots , as outsiders looking in — — yet the results are widely divergent . |
| 3 | There is a wide range between the two extremes , and most people can be defined as ‘ intermediate ’ . |
| 4 | Suicide , when someone decides to take their own life by one means or another , rather than waiting to die through illness or accident , is not the same as euthanasia which may be defined as assisted death and which is a subject beyond the scope of this book . |
| 5 | In summer 1984 a Commission scientist wrote in Coal and Energy Quarterly , a journal funded by and used as a mouthpiece for the National Coal Board , that ‘ there is no damage [ in British conifers ] that can be defined as new ’ and ‘ the chances of similar damage [ to that in West Germany ] occurring here is considered low . ’ |
| 6 | Some people might imagine that the three positions of theist , agnostic and atheist could be defined as follows : the theist knows there is a God ; the agnostic does n't know whether there 's a God or not ; the atheist knows there is not a God . |
| 7 | The terms ‘ product stability ’ and ‘ product-container compatibility ’ may be defined as follows : |
| 8 | Foundations can be defined as those parts of the structure in direct contact with the ground which transfer the weight of the building and the loads exerted on it to the soil beneath . |
| 9 | To be academic for a moment , minerals can be defined as ‘ naturally formed , inorganic substances which possess a definite chemical composition and a definite atomic structure ’ . |
| 10 | Although there are many types of dementia they can generally be defined as involving progressive and irreversible brain failure . |
| 11 | To cooperate may be defined as to work together or to operate jointly-These terms are therefore not dissimilar , yet co-ordination may be seen to be of a higher level and a more difficult operation than co-operation . |
| 12 | That realisation is a product of the power of rational thought which came to the emerging ‘ human' ’ being in the course of the evolutionary process , for it is in remote retrospect that man can now see that the division of the first cell was a ‘ good ’ event , and had to be defined as such for the unanswerable reason that it could not have been anything else , otherwise there was nothing that could be defined as the origin of ‘ good ’ that was not dependent on dogma and superstition . |
| 13 | War communism could be defined as follows : firstly , requisitioning in the countryside ; secondly , strict rationing for the town population , who were classified into categories ; thirdly , complete ‘ socialisation ’ of production and labour ; fourthly , an extremely complicated and chit-ridden system of distribution for the remaining stocks of manufactured goods ; fifthly , a monopoly of power tending towards the single Party and the suppression of all dissent ; sixthly , a state of siege and the Cheka . |
| 14 | ‘ Cleaving can best be defined as being welded together . ’ |
| 15 | Cleaving can best be defined as being welded together . |
| 16 | It was also noted that central training units in particular , can be defined as offering ‘ internal ’ , ‘ external ’ , or ‘ co-operative ’ training , according to the prevailing local relationship , ( some library departments are ‘ charged ’ for centrally run courses ) . |
| 17 | The labour input can be defined as consisting of all the human attributes which are used in producing goods and services and , as such , it differs from the inputs of the other factors of production in one major respect . |
| 18 | Voluntary unemployment can be defined as consisting of all those persons who are not in paid employment and are receiving some form of social security benefit , but are not actually seeking jobs at the prevailing rate of real wages . |
| 19 | The entrances can be defined as those holes exhibiting quantities of scraped-out sand or soil around them , whereas a bolt or exit hole is simply that , a hole in the ground with no other clue to its whereabouts than that hole . |
| 20 | The purpose of an audit should be defined as being ‘ to provide an independent opinion to those with an interest in a company that they have received from those responsible for its direction and management an adequate account of : the proper conduct of the company 's affairs ; the company 's financial performance and position ; future risks attaching to the company . ’ |
| 21 | The GIST interventions described above relate to three of these : VISTA women , albeit briefly and temporarily , redressed the numerical balance by offering female role models of practising scientists ; VISTA and the curriculum development which followed involved a limited ‘ repackaging ’ of science to remove its exclusively masculine appeal , and the single-sex classes and classroom observation showed how science comes to be defined as ‘ masculine ’ in the mixed school . |
| 22 | A press system can be defined as paralleling a party system when such links exist between each newspaper and a party … |
| 23 | Although she was accused of backing down , Mrs Whitehouse firmly suggested that she had achieved what she set out to do , i.e. to show that certain acts could be defined as indecent within the parameters of the law as it stood . |
| 24 | If the ‘ kinship ’ school may be located within the broader framework of a power or class analysis of society , the ‘ society-as-parent ’ supporters might be defined as belonging more to what might be termed a ‘ personal . |
| 25 | Thus , in the US insider trading may be defined as trading in an issuer 's securities ( or communicating or ‘ tipping ’ ) while in possession of material non-public information relating to the issuer 's securities or the market for those securities . |
| 26 | Operationally , this might be defined as those unplanned readmissions occurring within a ‘ short ’ ( but specified ) interval after the first discharge . |
| 27 | According to the White paper community care may be defined as providing the right level of intervention and support to enable people to achieve maximum independence and control over their own lives . |
| 28 | Third , we are , in part at least , talking about an activity which appears to be defined as problematic by users themselves . |
| 29 | The needs of the present project could be defined as ’ to use the semantic constraints inherent in natural language to reduce the ambiguity in the output from a text recognition system ’ . |
| 30 | In general , the dirtier the receiving watercourse the less likely a discharge is to be defined as polluting , since the pollutant is less likely to have any measurable impact on the stream , less likely to be visible in already dirty water , and less likely to produce any noticeable ill-effects upon already scarce fish , plant , or animal life . |