Example sentences of "taken to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of their findings , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) put forward the suggestion that latent inhibition derives from a loss of effectiveness by the specific cues that characterize the CS ( and thus requires pre-exposure to that very stimulus ) , whereas neophobia is taken to be a reaction to the aversive properties of novelty per se and can be attenuated by prior exposure to any other novel event ( see also Braveman 1978 ) . |
| 2 | There are two good examples of this in the British Museum 's Roman sculpture collections : the ‘ Spinario ’ , a boy removing a thorn from his foot , and ‘ Clytie ’ , long taken to be a portrait of the emperor Claudius ' mother , the younger Antonia , but perhaps better identified as a personification of one of the nations defeated by Augustus . |
| 3 | An aim can be taken to be a statement of intent on the part of the teacher , usually expressed in general terms , whilst an objective is a statement describing in specific terms what the student is expected to do at the end of a course of learning experience . |
| 4 | Like a prescription it needs to be taken to be a cure , like a recipe it needs to be cooked to be eaten , like a cheque it needs to be cashed to be spent . |
| 5 | Although the younger woman has been taken to be a likeness of his sister Wil by many biographers , misled by an ambiguous comment of Vincent 's , Tralbaut sees in it a close resemblance to Kee . |
| 6 | What is ethologically implausible about Ullman 's hypotheses is not that they involve some ( unconscious ) knowledge about material objects and normal viewing conditions , but rather that they assume the perception of rigid objects to be basic , while perception of non-rigid movement is taken to be a more complex special case . |
| 7 | In Darwin 's version pangenesis could not be squared with these cytological generalizations ; for , if each of the two masses of gemmules coming together at fertilization is taken to be one cell , then it has not arisen in the division of one cell in that parent ; while , if each is taken to be a myriad of cells , then far too many are coming together at fertilization . |
| 8 | The amount of total inorganic bromine was taken to be a linear function of the amount of total inorganic chlorine constrained by high-latitude measurements . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | For instance , US vase pronounced [ va:z ] was identified by one child as a smallish flower vase , while [ veiz ] was taken to be a really large kind . |
| 11 | When , later on , his only son died it was taken to be a sign that he had killed the supposed lover unjustly . |
| 12 | As will become clear , this claim is crucial to the development of the Report 's strategy , given that the rise of modern industrial society is taken to be a major progenitor of contemporary " accidental and conventional " social and cultural divisions . |
| 13 | The name Comminges is taken to be a derivation from this name , of the Convenae , which the Romans gave to the local people whom they had brought together in their new oppidum . |
| 14 | Nothing in the prohibition set out above shall be taken to be a direction to Norwich Union to terminate the appointment of the Winchester Group or any other person as an appointed representative . |
| 15 | When included , the inner shape was taken to be a hole or cut out in the total shape . |
| 16 | Metaphor has traditionally been taken to be a one-word device , or at most a figure of several words strung together , whereas Brooke-Rose 's analyses concentrate instead on metaphor 's work at the level of the phrase or sentence . |
| 17 | In the big chief 's private office Hartley informs me casually that what I 'd taken to be a ping pong ball-firing toy gun on the table behind me was actually an automatic 12-bore shotgun capable of delivering a dozen lethal rounds in quick succession . |
| 18 | If the approved accounts do not comply with the Act , every director who was a party to their approval and who knows that they do not comply or is reckless as to whether or not they comply is guilty of an offence and every director at the time the accounts were approved is taken to be a party to their approval unless he shows that he took all reasonable steps to prevent their approval . |
| 19 | He returned to the living-room and found that what he had taken to be a cupboard door , in fact gave access by a flight of stairs to the shop . |
| 20 | Was what they had taken to be a problem of the stomach something more deadly ? |
| 21 | This black hole is taken to be a neutral non-rotating black hole ( Schwarzschild black hole ) . |
| 22 | If that clause was taken to be a definition of the Government 's position and repeatedly referred to as an escape route , which appears to be the intention , it would fundamentally undermine confidence in the Government 's commitment to the European process . |
| 23 | Brucan 's additional claim that public opinion was being formed by a one-time Ceausescu collaborator was taken to be a reference to one of the NSF 's most public critics , Octavian Paler , editor of the newspaper Romania Libera , who had published an interview given by Brucan to the Independent which quoted him as saying that only intellectuals were fit to run the country . |
| 24 | This was taken to be a response to the open call by ASEAN foreign ministers for the continued US military presence in the region . |
| 25 | Improvements in performance with increasing arousal at low levels are taken to be a function of the increasing speed on information transfer . |
| 26 | What he had taken to be a gate turned out to be a wall , the hump on the ground near by a heap of gravel and the massive bulk on the other side of the road a barn whose gable end still bore the faded icon of a helmeted Mussolini and the slogan ‘ It is important to win , but still more important to fight . ’ |
| 27 | In the big chief 's private office Hartley informs me casually that what I 'd taken to be a ping pong ball-firing toy gun on the table behind me was actually an automatic 12-bore shotgun capable of delivering a dozen lethal rounds in quick succession . |
| 28 | Shapes should agree with choices ( i.e. it should be " choices that shape … " ) but the intervening " that " seems to have interfered , as though it is taken to be a singular subject . |
| 29 | Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are . |
| 30 | was increasingly viewed as providing insight into the fundamental truths of creation , in which nature as manifested in the unassailable reality of bones and organs was taken to be the only foundation of the moral order , a biology of incommensurability became the means by which such differences could be authoritatively represented . |