Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] take to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vertical loyalties within groups are taken to be the common base for the preservation of conformity as each individual knows their place and takes on a role consistent with that place . |
| 2 | The remainder of the plates were taken to be placed on the table , and she began rolling the cutlery into paper napkins , her fingers shaking as she did so . |
| 3 | Organisations ' insured costs were taken to be the cost of insurance premiums covering the period of study . |
| 4 | Improvements in performance with increasing arousal at low levels are taken to be a function of the increasing speed on information transfer . |
| 5 | In general , if w k is the weight ascribed to the kth objective and the constraints are taken to be inequalities , we are faced with solving the problem |
| 6 | Although in actual practice the Formalists tended to concentrate on the formal qualities of literature , this was because formal devices were taken to be the means whereby defamiliarization was realized . |
| 7 | General-purpose forces were taken to be those parts of the military not included in strategic forces , and " the armed forces of the participant states themselves , operationally subordinated with their consent to the C.-in-C. of the joint armed forces " . |
| 8 | In all cases , focus preferences were taken to be strong , so that a binary plausibility check , rather than ‘ special mode ’ inference , was assumed . |
| 9 | Hazards were taken to be simple , which include a single damaging element such as wind , rain , floodwater or earth tremor ; compound , which involves several elements acting together above their respective damage thresholds such as the wind , hail and lightning of a severe storm ; and multiple , when elements of different kinds coincide accidentally or follow one another as a hurricane may be succeeded by landslides and floods . |
| 10 | Suppose , however , that I simulate or even by coincidence pass through whatever sequence of states is taken to be sufficient for the conscious episode of feeling the prick of the needle . |
| 11 | Swords , spears and shields are taken to be weapons of warfare , defensive and offensive , and there is nothing to suggest that they were used in any way other than conventional modes ( Alcock 1978 ; Davidson 1962 ; Swanton 1973 ) . |
| 12 | The main environmental factors were taken to be the effect of market forces on such things as staff recruitment , purchase of materials , and course demand , etc , constrained by the long-term contractual obligations to existing teaching and non-teaching staff . |
| 13 | Much of this material — this archaic London , the Hawksmoor churches , their magical meaning , and the tramps who haunt them — comes from the striking poem Lud Heat by Iain Sinclair , where the churches are taken to be geometrically interrelated in the form of a pentacle , the sorcerer 's five-pointed star . |
| 14 | Thus ‘ abstract ’ is opposed to ‘ concrete ’ , ‘ explicit ’ to ‘ implicit ’ , ‘ elaborated code ’ to ‘ restricted code ’ , ‘ extensional structure ’ to ‘ in tensional structure ’ , and these types are taken to be related to differing kinds of social experience mediated or formed by a literate organization of reality , on the one hand , and an oral organization of reality , on the other . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |