Example sentences of "is [adv] taken to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | substantial — this is generally taken to be 10% or more ; |
| 3 | Because of the volatility of precious metal prices , net realisable value is generally taken to be the lower of market prices and average prices ruling over the last five years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Similarly , the common good ( or rather , that part of it defined by legal rules ) is not taken to be an objective category . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Bonn is usually taken to be the dividing line between the upper and lower Rhine , western Europe 's longest river at 1,320 kilometres . |
| 8 | He is usually taken to be the author of a polished English version of Alain Chartier 's poem ‘ La Belle Dame Sans Mercy ’ , a fashionable contribution to the courtly debate about love provoked by the Roman de la Rose . |
| 9 | The limit is usually taken to be about .05mm on the film . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although the Scarman Report is often taken to be the central text which argues for a link between ‘ social conditions ’ and ‘ disorder ’ , the terms of the debate were by no means set by Scarman . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In syntactic theory , the verb is often taken to be the head of the sentence , but for our purposes , as we shall see , there are reasons for casting the subject in this role . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We have concluded that a standard effect — one that is not a decision , choice , or the like of a person , or a following action — is indeed taken to be an event necessitated by a causal circumstance . |
| 18 | Research is commonly taken to be the specialist and reserved occupation of theorists , an activity which is carried out in detachment from the immediacy of actual events and requiring knowledge and expertise of a kind which only academic intellectuals can legitimately claim to have . |
| 19 | A personal relationship between them and their constituents is commonly taken to be an intrinsic and laudable feature of British parliamentary representation . |