Example sentences of "[vb mod] be define as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moral debate about what should be defined as crime is a debate about what we think is undesirable , and should not therefore be tolerated . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Consequently , he proposed that the reporting unit should be defined as the fund and that organizations should be seen as one fund or a series of funds . |
| 4 | It is recommended that this should be defined as a fixed set by the Project Manager ; e.g. whether the code is re-entrant , position independent or overlayable . |
| 5 | In this case , the writer 's revisions have turned the meaning of the original into its opposite : the original ( a ) says that stylistics is rarely an exercise in describing what use is made of language ; but the revision ( b ) says that stylistics should be defined as an exercise in describing what use is made of language . |
| 6 | If ergonomics is regarded as the science of work then work must be defined as purposeful activity rather than merely as activity for economic gain . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , implementation independence has had a powerful effect on AI thinking about metaphysical problems , and has been behind McCarthy 's insistence that AI must be defined as the study of intelligent mechanisms independent of their implementation in machines or brains , and hence to a general denial that AI is , in any strong sense , about machines . |
| 8 | Any data element in the organisation must be defined as an entity , an attribute or a relationship and recorded in the data dictionary . |
| 9 | An ‘ idea-meme ’ might be defined as an entity that is capable of being transmitted from one brain to another . |
| 10 | These needs and facilities are both part of the pedestrian environment , which might be defined as the interface between the walker 's personal ability to cope with environmental challenge , the location and accessibility of destinations , and the characteristics of the environment en route . |
| 11 | This did not immediately lead to what might be defined as specific growth policies . |
| 12 | Private law might be defined as law regulating the relations of private persons , whether individuals , corporations , or unincorporated associations , with one another . |
| 13 | Legislation might be defined as the making of general rules to govern future conduct ; under this definition , Public Acts of Parliament are the central case of legislation . |
| 14 | As remarked in the prologue , present-day algebra might be defined as the study of ( n-ary ) operations on sets ( n = 2 , but also 0 , 1 , 3 , 4 , … etc . ) . |
| 15 | Discourse , indeed , might be defined as the totality of all these elements interacting . |
| 16 | Indeed , communication might be defined as the conversion of new information into given information , and a successful communicator as a person who correctly assesses the state of knowledge of his or her interlocutor . |
| 17 | For instance , if there are two functions f and g defined on the set of all possible examples , and f can take the value a and g can take the value b , then one such cluster might be defined as the set of all examples x for which f(x) = a ∘ g(x) = b |
| 18 | For example , the Heading tag might be defined as Times Roman 24pt on 26pt Bold Centred Unjustified . |
| 19 | ‘ Final salary ’ might be defined as the average salary of an employee 's last three years of employment . |
| 20 | providing a pathway through the new thinking on cultural representation and gender developed by feminist artists , critics and writers over the last decade , the book is wideranging ; a useful introduction to what might be defined as the field of feminist cultural studies . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For instance , it is not difficult to think of linguistic features that could be defined as disfluencies . |
| 23 | Women of outstanding reputation in any field were at risk , since almost any women 's accomplishment could be defined as witchcraft . ’ |
| 24 | Computational Linguistics could be defined as the study of computer systems for understanding , generating and processing natural language [ Grishman , 1986 ] . |
| 25 | This vicious circle tends to leave a ‘ rump ’ of inhabitants who are unable to run a car , many of whom could be defined as the ‘ transport poor ’ ( this term will be discussed below ) . |
| 26 | Indeed , 22.4 per cent of the migrants could be defined as return migrants ( Shaw , 1984 ) and although this is n't as high as the 30 to 40 per cent rates recorded in north Norway ( Nicholson , 1975 ) it is much higher than the 5.5 per cent found in northwest Ireland ( Foeken , 1980 ) , and very different from the situation in northern Scotland where Jones et al . |
| 27 | These could be defined as : |
| 28 | Public relations , she sometimes thought , could be defined as a series of crises created by other people . |
| 29 | A thesaurus could be defined as ‘ a compilation of words and phrases showing synonyms , hierarchical and other relationships and dependencies , the function of which is to provide a standardized vocabulary for information storage and retrieval systems ’ . |
| 30 | A court school , such as Alcuin led , may be defined as an institution for harnessing learning to political purposes , all kinds of learning including biblical learning . |