Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [be] treated as " in BNC.

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1 One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties .
2 Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days
3 Furthermore , the amount of any distribution received on such ordinary shares which will be treated as an income distribution rather than a return of capital will be increased to take account of the deferred repayment of premium accrued at the date of conversion ( see s210 TA 1988 ) .
4 It will have received monies from the disposal of trust capital on the purchase of its own shares but the proceeds which will be treated as distributions for tax purposes ( dividends ) will have borne ACT and would potentially carry with them a credit .
5 It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee .
6 Alien soldiers , who might be treated as traitors by invading Germans , were too much at risk so near the south coast .
7 No longer were we ‘ engagé volontaires ’ , who could be treated as nothings — we had proved ourselves to the instructors on our course , and henceforth they would treat us as legionnaires and expect us to behave as such .
8 There is always the risk that you will be treated as a spokesperson on behalf of lawyers generally and this may not be taken too kindly by your colleagues .
9 Under TA 1988 , s677(10) there shall be treated as a capital sum paid to the settlor by the trustees of the settlement any sum which is paid by them to a third party at the settlor 's direction or by virtue of the assignment by him of his right to receive it or is otherwise paid or applied by the trustees for the benefit of the settlor and which would not otherwise be treated as a capital sum paid to the settlor .
10 If grouped together ( within 5″ of another chariot ) they may be treated as a unit for leadership tests testing on the value of the highest .
11 Assume further that the probe lengths are sufficiently small that they may be treated as points in comparison with the clones , and that the probes are all single-copy .
12 The government 's already got rid of a minimum wage in industry , but farmworkers say they must be treated as a special case .
13 They should be treated as a guide only and not as a complete or detailed study of the law .
14 They should be treated as a guide only and not as a complete or detailed study of the law .
15 Merton was dismayed that Mannheim distinguished between ‘ cultural science ’ and ‘ exact science ’ ; for Merton they should be treated as similar forms of knowledge because they are based on equivalent epistemologies .
16 They should be treated as place-holders for other propositions , rather than as representing a logically independent class of propositions of their own .
17 They have got to demand in the politest possible way , but in the most determined way , that they should be treated as responsible citizens whatever their walk of life People take others at their own evaluation .
18 I think they should be treated as adults and allowed to make that decision for themselves .
19 If they kept to German names and were captured they would be treated as traitors .
20 Ukraine 's and Moldova 's refusal to sign this agreement led to threats from Russia that they would be treated as foreign countries .
21 The Customs and Excise have the power to direct that where two or more people purport to trade separately to avoid registration for VAT , but are really part of a single business , they shall be treated as a single business for VAT purposes .
22 While they will be taxed at the investor 's top rate , when repatriated they will be treated as income , rather than capital , and therefore avoid the risk of having to pay capital gains tax .
23 Both titles will have the artwork on the dust jacket repeated on the cover , so that they can be treated as ordinary paperbacks as preferred .
24 One of the consequences of holding instructions in store locations is that they can be treated as data , and manipulated as such by the computer .
25 The physical implementation and application areas of microcomputers are thus different from mainstream computers , but at the instruction set level which we discuss in this book they can be treated as variations on the central Von Neumann model .
26 Science , as it has developed right across the board since the end of the sixteenth century , has operated with the axiomatic assumption that events in the material world , out there , external to human minds , are governed by regularities which are so coherent and consistent that they can be treated as " natural laws " .
27 Either we may see them as qualifying the properties inherent in the nouns , or we may take the view that lawfulness and distance serve to mark out certain generally recognized subcategories of heirs and cousins ( whereas one can scarcely argue for any generally accepted subcategories of strangers and kids marked out by totality and mereness ) , so that they can be treated as ordinary ascriptive adjectives .
28 However , some parts of the lease will be construed against the tenent , since by a legal fiction he may be treated as a grantor .
29 I propose that it should be treated as a case of criminal kidnap until we have evidence to the contrary . ’
30 As such , it should be treated as an investment in the infrastructure of the capital and appropriately resourced with both money and the equally important human currency of ideas , creativity , and enthusiasm .
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