Example sentences of "[be] take to [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios .
2 To avoid the technical difficulties in actually performing the sum over histories , these curved space-times must be taken to be Euclidean .
3 These are given by ( 8.7 ) where ε may be taken to be 0 on null geodesics and 1 on time-like geodesics .
4 Harris has argued that the value of life can only sensibly be taken to be that value that those alive place on their lives .
5 Accordingly , where the parcels are described simply by references to the Ordnance map ( either by specifying the numbers of the enclosures or by a plan that prevails over a verbal description ) the parcels will be taken to be those shown on the Ordnance map ( Fisher v Winch ) .
6 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 . ’
7 For the purposes of mens rea or the mental state of the accused , where his awareness is impaired by intoxicants he shall be taken to be aware of that which he would have been aware if not intoxicated , unless he shows either that his intoxication was not self-induced or that it was caused solely by the taking or administration of a substance in the course of medical treatment ( Section 6(5) ) .
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