Example sentences of "was taken as the " in BNC.

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1 The movies had created a false world and what was taken as the ultimate proof of that was the way in which they had failed to deal directly with real Americans and their dilemmas .
2 The height of the first peak in the autocorrelation function was taken as the autocorrelation score for that histogram .
3 Outcomes for the children and young people were analysed according to the legal route which was taken as the basis for the child 's admission into care .
4 It seemed that people thought it was about kinky sex ; at best it was taken as the onset of senility .
5 It is not clear why the age of 65 was taken as the cut-off point for these screening programmes .
6 No single country was taken as the model in implementing change .
7 This statistic was used in conjunction with a bidimensional weighted index where [ a ] was taken as the point most distant from the vernacular , and scores assigned for variants on the dimensions both of height and backness .
8 In seven cases the three research psychiatrists could not agree unanimously on the primary diagnosis ; in these cases the majority opinion ( 2:1 ) was taken as the research diagnosis .
9 That one incident was taken as the moment when the predicted breakdown in law and order , the full-blown crisis in industrial relations , had arrived .
10 The productivity index , for this purpose , was taken as the company income divided by the personnel strength of the company .
11 It also made more than passing obeisance to the logic of the experiment which , for many and wrongly , was taken as the sine qua non of the scientific method .
12 Every 10 minutes , three images of the gall bladder were taken and the mean of the three measurements was taken as the response at this time point .
13 p<0.05 was taken as the level of significance .
14 The mean value of the fasting samples obtained at 15 minutes and immediately before the meal was taken as the basal gastrin value .
15 The resting pressure was taken as the mean pressure of all measurements in each of the three catheters — that is , six determinations in each patient .
16 The first sailing from the port after midnight on the New Year was taken as the official start of the Single Market ; the first piece of freight on board was actually an unidentified light van and trailer — the driver no doubt blissfully unaware that he had made history — which , along with several vehicles turning round from the inbound convoy , sneaked back on board the 01.00 return sailing of the Pride of Kent while the official welcoming party was still in progress at the other end of the port .
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