Example sentences of "may be taken to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The metric in this region may be taken to be of the form ( 6.20 ) , but with the metric functions U , V , W and M all depending on u only . |
| 2 | These are given by ( 8.7 ) where ε may be taken to be 0 on null geodesics and 1 on time-like geodesics . |
| 3 | An extension through this surface may be taken to be the familiar two parts of the exterior Schwarzschild space-time . |
| 4 | The starting point for investigation may be taken to be the eighteenth-century revolutionary movements which gave impetus to beliefs that social progress was possible and that social organization could be reconstructed in accordance with rational principles . |
| 5 | In an age when all Unionists professed some form of religious belief and when Anglicanism was the assumption of those who professed no other form of Christianity in England , some of this may be taken to be assumption rather than conviction . |
| 6 | Let us call to mind the ‘ representative firm ’ , whose economies of production , internal and external , are dependent on the aggregate volume of production of the commodity that it makes ; and , postponing all further study of the nature of this dependence , let us assume that the normal supply price of any amount of that commodity may be taken to be its normal expenses of production ( including gross earnings of managements ) by that firm . |