Example sentences of "[be] taken to be the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 An extension through this surface may be taken to be the familiar two parts of the exterior Schwarzschild space-time .
2 The starting point for investigation may be taken to be the eighteenth-century revolutionary movements which gave impetus to beliefs that social progress was possible and that social organization could be reconstructed in accordance with rational principles .
3 The value when repaired for these purposes should always be taken to be the insured value .
4 This is because the apparent uptake at one hour can not be taken to be the true uptake in view of the high level at time 0 , which must represent adherence to the cell wall ( Fig 4 ) .
5 Vertical loyalties within groups are taken to be the common base for the preservation of conformity as each individual knows their place and takes on a role consistent with that place .
6 Three fans were placed in this category on the basis of lengthy observation and in accord with what were taken to be the appropriate criteria for judging such people .
7 It is taken to be the ultimate proof of conjugal loyalty .
8 If g is taken to be the local gravitational acceleration then we can see that the metric connections correspond to the components of the gravitational acceleration .
9 To locate T g , the linear portions are extrapolated and intersect at the point which is taken to be the characteristic transition temperature of the material .
10 But , uniquely , the new English offered through education unmediated access to what was taken to be the central activity of all human judgement .
11 Once he had obtained a post mortem report identifying the medical cause of death , that was taken to be the sole cause of death : the coroner reached the conclusion that there could be no other cause and so he precluded himself from considering lack of care as a cause .
12 was increasingly viewed as providing insight into the fundamental truths of creation , in which nature as manifested in the unassailable reality of bones and organs was taken to be the only foundation of the moral order , a biology of incommensurability became the means by which such differences could be authoritatively represented .
13 The highest interpretation at some point was taken to be the correct answer .
14 With lamentable predictability , however , there was a wailing from certain quarters against ‘ our ‘ namby-pamby ’ ’ methods ' and ‘ our drawing-room courts ’ , and what was taken to be the excessive leniency of the 1933 Act was accused of unleashing a tidal wave of crime among the young .
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