Example sentences of "[prep] be defined as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if attempts to produce this concrete research are doomed to neglect or derision or to be defined as ‘ espionage ’ , then what can be achieved ? |
| 2 | Multimedia used to be defined as a fancy slide show that you sat and watched . |
| 3 | In time , the results may look coherent enough to be defined as Majorism . |
| 4 | First , ‘ boy labour ’ came to be defined as a problem which , together with the ‘ discovery ’ of adolescence , meant that working-class youth attained a hitherto unknown pre-eminence among social theorists and reformers . |
| 5 | Furthermore , if authenticity is to be defined as natural language behaviour ( and it is hard to see how else it might be defined ) there is also the difficulty that learners will naturally incline to draw on their own language in any situation that calls for uncontrived linguistic communication . |
| 6 | For example , the Church of Scientology has fought in the courts of Australia to be defined as a religion in order to be able to claim tax-exemption , while The Science of Creative Intelligence ( Transcendental Meditation ) has fought in the courts of the United States to be not given religious status so that it can be taught in the public ( State ) schools — a practice denied to religious organisations by the First Amendment of the United States ' Constitution . |
| 7 | So far as assistance to grandchildren in adult life is concerned , the American evidence suggests that grandparents do assist financially and that they define this assistance as a gift , unlike financial support between the other two generations which is more likely to be defined as a loan , or as part of an exchange ( Hill , 1970 , pp. 69–70 ) . |
| 8 | To reiterate the point just made , this is not an argument about the functional necessity for all societies to have a category of ‘ crime ’ but an argument about the positive qualities of what happens to be defined as crime under capitalism ; indeed , the argument is usually combined with the assumption that under socialism there would be no such thing as crime . |
| 9 | Traditionally , skilled jobs have tended to be defined as those requiring apprenticeships . |
| 10 | Once arrested , a youth , for instance , is more likely to be defined as a juvenile delinquent if his manner is interpreted as aggressive and uncooperative , if his appearance is seen as unconventional or slovenly , if his speech is defined as ungrammatical or slang and if his posture gives the impression of disrespect for authority or arrogance . |
| 11 | Thus the jive-talking black American youth from the inner city ghetto with his cool , arrogant manner and colourful clothes is more likely to be defined as a delinquent than the white ‘ all-American girl ’ from the tree-lined suburbs . |
| 12 | Phenomenologists do not try to establish what causes crime ; instead they try to discover how certain events come to be defined as crimes and certain people defined as criminal . |
| 13 | Held , that , since in Part III of the Insolvency Act 1986 there was no definition of ‘ company ’ in relation to administrative receivers , by virtue of section 251 of that Act the definition in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 applied and , therefore , unless the contrary intention appeared , ‘ company ’ was to be defined as a company registered under the Companies Acts ; but that a contrary intention was to be deduced from the proper construction of the provisions relating to administrative receivers generally and the Act of 1986 as a whole , whereby it appeared that Parliament intended that ‘ company , ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) , should not be confined to the prima facie meaning of companies registered under the Companies Acts but should embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ; and that , accordingly , the applicants were administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) ( post , pp. 243F–G , 244A–C , D–G , 245F — 246A ) . |
| 14 | Are they to be defined as refugees ? |
| 15 | In addition to this descriptive overview , issues which will also be discussed include : the relationship between ‘ theory ’ and ‘ practice ’ in crime prevention ; how and why activities come to be defined as crime prevention activities ; changes in the role of crime prevention officers and the increasing importance ( in theory , at least ) of crime prevention in the work of all police officers ; liaison with non-police bodies including crime prevention panels , neighbourhood watch schemes , schools etc. , and finally , the use of new technology in the prevention of crime . |
| 16 | ‘ Module-details ’ has to be defined as a set of atomic attributes , not as a group item , thus it has to be broken down into its constituents of ‘ module-name ’ , ‘ status ’ and ‘ unit-points ’ : |
| 17 | Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse . |