Example sentences of "be taken to [be] " in BNC.

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1 No , taken them , they 're taken to be professionals though are n't they ?
2 In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards .
3 No places were to be taken to be within the forest if no Forest courts had been held , verderers elected or regards made in them since 1565 .
4 If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval .
5 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 .
6 These are given by ( 8.7 ) where ε may be taken to be 0 on null geodesics and 1 on time-like geodesics .
7 An extension through this surface may be taken to be the familiar two parts of the exterior Schwarzschild space-time .
8 What was needed was that intention to make a legal act should be expressed ; this then had to be taken to be charged on the heir as trustee , since in that way the principle of benefit could be satisfied .
9 Marcellus says the condition on the manumission is not to be taken to be repeated in the case of the substitutes .
10 A case might be made for this ( although there is no other evidence for it ) and so substantive interference in Ulpian 's text could be taken to be limited to generalization or to the addition of per omnia .
11 An aim can be taken to be a statement of intent on the part of the teacher , usually expressed in general terms , whilst an objective is a statement describing in specific terms what the student is expected to do at the end of a course of learning experience .
12 Like a prescription it needs to be taken to be a cure , like a recipe it needs to be cooked to be eaten , like a cheque it needs to be cashed to be spent .
13 Where committed facilities are in existence at the balance sheet date which permit the refinancing of debt for a period beyond its maturity , the earliest date at which the lender has the right to demand repayment should be taken to be the maturity date of the longest refinancing permitted by a facility in respect of which all the following conditions are met :
14 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) ) .
15 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 .
16 There are claimed benefits in academic progress and in social and emotional maturity , but the solution to the basic problem of the language and learning environments can not be taken to be solved in the mainstreaming option .
17 Harris has argued that the value of life can only sensibly be taken to be that value that those alive place on their lives .
18 John Lyons could be taken to be offering such an analysis when he says that the English language is different from other languages in that it ‘ extends ’ the meaning of particular words beyond the culture-specific because of the international demands made on it ( Lyons , 1982 ) .
19 With writing , at least , they believe , what is said can be taken to be what is meant .
20 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 .
21 Thus the total number of transactions T in the economy can be taken to be fixed if full employment is the norm , or alternatively the assumption that the quantity of money has no permanent effect on the real sector of the economy implies that T is independent of M. Consequently there should be a definite relationship between the quantity of money and the price level if the velocity of circulation can also be shown to be independent of M.
22 Freud is not to be taken to be providing a theory of instinct for all species , but trying to puzzle out the complex similarities and differences between man and animals .
23 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 . ’
24 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 .
25 It is submitted that the judgment can not be supported on principle , though , as regards the particular application of the principle , but no further , it must be taken to be law in any court of first instance .
26 Nothing in the prohibition set out above shall be taken to be a direction to Norwich Union to terminate the appointment of the Winchester Group or any other person as an appointed representative .
27 If the number of children varies , then the branching ratio n can be taken to be the number which makes this sum give the right answer .
28 The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios .
29 Outbound timing is initiated over the fix and at the abeam position — if the abeam position can not be determined — timing from abeam must be taken to be when the outbound turn is completed .
30 To avoid the technical difficulties in actually performing the sum over histories , these curved space-times must be taken to be Euclidean .
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