Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [adv] take to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former measurement is in terms of a value equal to twenty times the logarithm to the base ten of the ratio of the root-means square pressure of a sound to the reference pressure , which is normally taken to be two times ten to the minus five newtons per square metre , and the unit of measurement is on a uniform scale based upon ten times the logarithm to the base ten |
| 2 | Like many elite theorists who came after him , Pareto is peculiarly ambiguous about the concept ‘ governing elite , which is often taken to be his most important contribution to sociology . |
| 3 | For example , it may become necessary to reject information which was initially taken to be reliable and important enough to interpret and organise subsequent information dealing with the same topic . |
| 4 | Modelling of the deep magnetic boundaries has provided good correlations with reflectivity boundaries picked up on deep seismic surveys , and images of the data and their derivatives have suggested the presence of major structural boundaries , both parallel and oblique to what is conventionally taken to be the Iapetus suture , which may be the margins of terrains assembled as part of a broader zone . |
| 5 | It is these positive examples of what is generally taken to be a negative force that have given rise to such concepts as ‘ white ’ ( i.e. good ) witchcraft ; they are part of our European tradition and lend a certain credence to Margaret Murray 's exaggerated presentation of a satanic underground cult of evil co-existing with orthodox Christianity . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed this selection of propositions reads like a summary of what is generally taken to be de Man 's contribution to the theory of language . |
| 7 | It has , in contrast , been Western orthodoxy to cling to technological superiority as a substitute for what is often taken to be an unbridgeable quantitative gap . |
| 8 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 9 | Actually what is now taken to be the normal and basic meaning of the English word " family " is far removed from the meaning it carried in earlier times when the economic basis of English society was different . |