Example sentences of "take as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes as his criteria for class membership : firstly , the position of individuals in the process of production and their mode of sharing in the distribution of the product ; secondly , control over the labour power of others and thirdly , mode of remuneration . |
| 2 | Jocelyn Harris takes as her point of departure Duncombe 's The Feminiad . |
| 3 | R. B. Miller takes as a starting point modern pulsed power technology which , although originating in the UK , has been developed on a large scale in the US . |
| 4 | There are also the foreseeable difficulties that emerge when one takes as the basis for study the concepts of ‘ normal ’ and ‘ typical ’ children . |
| 5 | It takes as its basis the British Tourist Authority 's 1977 definition of a conference , i.e. : |
| 6 | Critical theory questions not just isolated elements of the society which it takes as its object ; it is the whole historical structure which is being criticized . |
| 7 | This year the summer school takes as its theme a topic which I am sure will be of interest to all parish musicians and liturgists in general . |
| 8 | It is the antithesis between these that Schleiermacher takes as the introduction to the doctrine of redemption , which occupies the second ( and larger ) of the two main divisions of The Christian Faith . |
| 9 | But although humanist theory takes as its object all the elements of subjectivity which empirical psychology 's concept of the subject excludes , it does not thereby challenge the structure of this concept . |
| 10 | Another area of concern for Mrs Whitehouse , which also takes as its focus the young , is sex education . |
| 11 | The flowering of the very Greek culture that Goody takes as the example par excellence of rationality , philosophy and science is inextricably linked with mysticism , secrecy and ambiguity . |
| 12 | The ‘ Ottoman ’ installation takes as its theme a Topkapi palace courtyard . |
| 13 | He takes as an example a " typically Faulknerian " passage from The Bear , part of a labyrinthine sentence extending over nearly two pages . |
| 14 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 15 | It is this which he takes as the key to an understanding of contemporary society , and of culture itself . |
| 16 | The next chapter is just such a consideration , though one that takes as a starting point the professional development of teachers ( Chapter 2 ) rather than the issue of accountability ( Chapter 1 ) . |
| 17 | The goal on each of these three planes is unity , and , appropriately , the novel takes as its framework the multi-layered but harmonious structure of medieval allegory . |
| 18 | Instead it takes as its model the typically eighteenth-century genres of direct discourse : the epistolary novel , the journal novel , and the fictional autobiography . |
| 19 | The ALT constructor takes as arguments a number of guarded processes . |
| 20 | This project takes as its starting point the fundamental tendency of people to seek explanations for events . |
| 21 | History is essentially to do with personal development in that it takes as the object of study the roots and origins of groups and those of individuals and examines how they have changed over time . |
| 22 | This takes as its theme " " Goddes pryvetee " " : a phrase appearing three times in the Miller 's Prologue and Tale ( 3164 , 3454 , 3558 ) and recalled again when John tells his wife his so-called " " pryvetee " " in line 3603 . |
| 23 | So desperate has the tribe 's situation become that the government Indian foundation FUNAI is attempting to contact all the remaining uncontacted Awa , an action it only takes as a last resort . |
| 24 | Work in the field is scattered between a number of approaches and takes as its subject differing historical periods and geographical areas . |
| 25 | I 'm interested in the romantic novel , and erm in the way in which certain kinds of English fiction affect American models in this period , which continues in a way my interest in popular fiction , because the American fiction really takes as its model in the late eighteenth century , the early nineteenth century , not in fact so much the mainstream British fiction of the eighteenth century , we think of Defoe or Fielding or Richardson or Smollett , these do n't provide very suitable models for American writers during that period because they 're all models based on the assumption of a fixed kind of society . |
| 26 | In doing so , he achieved something of the economic uplift associated with a move to the West , with little of the attendant culture shock , a fact which Glasgow can take as a kick in the groin or a pat on the back . |
| 27 | The first believes that perfect competition is a useful paradigm that policymakers should take as a guide ; this is the liberalising , deregulating , competition-promoting wing of the profession . |
| 28 | We may therefore take as an example of our new dichotomy between the practical and the theoretical the teaching of English . |
| 29 | We ca n't afford to be caught making what they would take as an act of aggression . ’ |
| 30 | Let us take as an example a haulage company which has acquired certain specialist expertise in transporting hi-tech products for companies based in North Yorkshire . |