Example sentences of "could [be] regarded [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF TASMANIA COULD BE REGARDED as a microcosm of what to expect from the great continent of Australia , Gould 's exhilaration as he sailed towards Sydney could not , understandably , have been higher . |
| 2 | Because still in 1988 , under the pressure of social instability and political crises , homosexuality could be regarded as a kind of privation or error , an ‘ inverted positivity ’ , an inimical , pernicious , inauthenticity always threatening to return from within the true and the authentic . |
| 3 | The following year he could comment to journalists that he , as President of the Commission , could be regarded as a kind of European prime minister . |
| 4 | Indeed , it could be regarded as a measure of the previous work how little needs doing after the pilot . |
| 5 | Profumo unfortunately succumbed to the charms of a Miss Christine Keeler who — casting my mind back — appeared at the time to be an attractive little thing , and whose very appearance could be regarded as a warning to every husband anxious to preserve his marriage . |
| 6 | Certainly , if the memorandum could be regarded as a contract , there might be difficulties because the transaction was not supported by consideration . |
| 7 | Although majority opinion in Ulster might have been prepared to let a power sharing Executive show what it could do , the same opinion was not prepared to accept the idea of a Council of Ireland since that could be regarded as a step towards unification of North and South . |
| 8 | The Christian idea of God as Trinity could be regarded as a bridge between the traditions of the Near East and the Far East . |
| 9 | Thus our very existence could be regarded as a confirmation of grand unified theories , though a qualitative one only ; the uncertainties are such that one can not predict the numbers of quarks that will be left after the annihilation , or even whether it would be quarks or antiquarks that would remain . |
| 10 | In this case that certainly was not so ; the ordinary means of access to the house was from the front of the house and to my mind it is very doubtful whether this yard could be regarded as a means of access to the house at all … in my view the section can not be extended beyond what was held in Brown 's case so as to include a yard of this kind . |
| 11 | If the intensification of use could be regarded as a material change of use , then planning permission would be required thus enabling any odour emission to be controlled by planning legislation . |
| 12 | The act could be regarded as a novus actus interveniens . |
| 13 | Obviously , the case was stronger than the one actually provided for , so it could be regarded as a fortiori . |
| 14 | It would be a mistake , in Gandhi 's view , to allow ahi sā to become a fetish , and not to kill in certain circumstances could be regarded as a form of hi sā rather than ahi sā . |
| 15 | A lasting cellular change in output in response to a defined input is at the least a dramatic example of neural plasticity ; but even more than this , the very specific form that the response takes could be regarded as a form of memory . |