Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] taken [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plainly , any questions about sex or gender are necessarily non-philosophical , if philosophy is taken to be conceptual analysis in this narrow sense . |
| 2 | The youngest and most significant heating event is taken to be due to the crustal stretching in the mid Jurassic . |
| 3 | Virtually everywhere today , democracy is taken to be synonymous with some kind of representative system . |
| 4 | Although , as we have said , applicability of a property is not part of our descriptive apparatus as such , in Chapter 3 we shall point out that there is an inevitable consequence of the occurrence of assignment of qualification , namely that the qualifying property is taken to be valid for the entity qualified , by contrast with the case where qualification occurs alone . |
| 5 | The growth of the spherulites may occur in one , two , or three dimensions and the rate of radial growth is taken to be linear at any temperature . |
| 6 | Thus , if they said of a group of red objects simply ‘ red ’ , their answer is taken to be unsatisfactory because ‘ we are not told what is red ’ . |
| 7 | An automatic consequence of the completeness is that the property of the adjective is taken to be valid for , or applicable to , the subject entity , for current purposes . |