Example sentences of "[verb] be taken to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 3 | The four outcomes that can result are taken to be as labelled in the Box ( over page ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With the help of defiant stances and some actual fighting , Jock establishes himself in public reputation as the kind of tough lad he enjoys being taken to be . |
| 6 | It is worth pointing out that , if the initial Killing vector had been taken to be , which is ( 12.25 ) with and , an equivalent transformation would have been obtained with and . |
| 7 | If the " we " code is taken to be the one which is closer to the " heart and mind " of the speaker , and hence the one which imparts greatest salience to a given message , then Creole , even though used sparingly , does indeed seem to fulfil the " we code " function for speakers in this community . |