Example sentences of "[adv] be taken to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commissioner quotes the Environmental Assessment ( Salmon Farming in Marine Waters ) Regulations of 1988 , which says that ‘ a proposed development shall only be taken to be likely to have significant effects on the environment … where the Crown Estates Commissioners consider that this is the case . ’ |
| 2 | They can only be taken to be creating expectations of faithfulness . |
| 3 | Harris has argued that the value of life can only sensibly be taken to be that value that those alive place on their lives . |
| 4 | The stationary state has just been taken to be one in which population is stationary . |
| 5 | Others , however , would rather maintain that these charges have sometimes been exaggerated , but that they do highlight genuine dangers of which one ought to be aware in reading Barth : dangers which lie partly in what he actually says , but also partly in what he can very easily be taken to be saying when his real meaning is subtly but significantly different . |
| 6 | The value when repaired for these purposes should always be taken to be the insured value . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The example in ( 22 ) simply extends the scope of Quality by viewing truth as a special sub-case of sincerity applied to assertions ; when one asks a question , one may standardly be taken to be asking sincerely and hence to be indeed lacking and requiring the requested information . |
| 9 | A person who has been admitted as a solicitor and whose name is on the roll shall , if he would not otherwise be taken to be acting as a solicitor , be taken for the purposes of this Act to be so acting [ and therefore being required to hold a practising certificate ] if he is employed in connection with the provision of any legal services ( a ) by any person who is qualified to act as a solicitor ; ( b ) by any partnership at least one member of which is so qualified ; or ( c ) by a body recognised by the Council of the Law Society under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 ( incorporated practices ) . |