Example sentences of "[prep] be regarded as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think there 's a better means of selection , other than what seem generally to be regarded as a rather barbaric system ? |
| 2 | There is a point here of immense importance for the understanding of Leonard which he shares with Layton ( who preferred to be regarded as a poet-prophet in the Hebrew tradition ) . |
| 3 | He came to be regarded as the major reason for the government 's post-Falklands electoral strength , its reputation for competence , enterprise , and success . |
| 4 | As late as the 1900s , Mrs Humphry Ward , the best-selling Victorian novelist and leading anti-suffragist , stressed that marriage had to be regarded as a necessary discipline , for if husbands and wives could not resolve their differences what hope remained for the larger polity ? |
| 5 | In lower Patel families the birth of many daughters began to be regarded as a disaster . |
| 6 | The women began increasingly to be regarded as possessions of their families . |
| 7 | The SACC characterisation of Mr De Klerk 's statement , as ‘ cynical and spurious ’ , is likely to be regarded as something of an understatement in many legal and political circles . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 9 | They are to be regarded as pure miracle , those of the first version as much as those of the second , although it is true that the miracle is heightened in that second account . |
| 10 | If causing death is to be regarded as the most serious harm that can be inflicted , it would seem to follow that the most blameworthy form of homicide should result in the highest sentences imposed by the courts . |
| 11 | The usually veiled criticism contained in the report material , and the open comment coming to light in denunciations and court prosecutions , have necessarily to be regarded as the tip of the iceberg . |
| 12 | His earlier much-fabled ‘ ruthless determination ’ and fanatical single-mindedness were now becoming to be regarded as a major liability , and the command to the 6th Army to fight to the last man was seen as its fateful demonstration . |
| 13 | Five men doing handstands are likely to be regarded as a conspiracy against the public interest . |
| 14 | Was this to be regarded as a compliment or a criticism ? |
| 15 | Charles … allowed himself for the sake of a few thousand pounds to be regarded as a greedy and litigious landlord rather than as a just ruler or as a national king . |
| 16 | The commentator 's ingenuous query could just as well have been prompted , however , by an unrelated but somehow symptomatic display of the insensitivity and obstinacy that have come to be regarded as part of Kohl 's character . |
| 17 | That still leaves a healthy blend of seasoned hands and determined younger players , many of whom are happy to be regarded as all-rounders rather than specialists . |
| 18 | The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives . |
| 19 | The harvest feast was usually a highpoint of village life , and came to be regarded as a ritual of social unity . |
| 20 | If this notion of integration were developed within our total society , the mentally handicapped would cease to be regarded as a race apart . |
| 21 | Tani 1984 ) , but is part of a more recent trend on the part of ‘ serious ’ fiction to incorporate what hitherto tended to be regarded as ‘ popular ’ genres : the detective story ( giallo ) in Stefano Benni 's Comici spaventati guerrieri ( Comic frightened Warriors , 1986 ) and in Gianfranco Manfredi 's two novels to date ; the thriller in De Carlo 's Uccelli da gabbia e da voliera ( Cage Birds and Aviary Birds , 1982 ) and , in a form largely hidden by the luxuriance of the language , in Aldo Busi 's most recent book La Delfina Bizantina ( The Byzantine Dolphin , 1987 ) ; science fiction ( Benni 's Terra ! , 1983 ) ; the fantastic , with its recurring topic of ‘ doubles ’ , in another novel published by the enterprising Ancona firm Il Lavoro Editoriale , Claudio Lolli 's L'inseguitore Peter H . |
| 22 | It was academic theory that was to define the two great periods of French station-building which produced in the Gare de l'Est and the Gare d'Orsay terminals which came to be regarded as definitive types . |
| 23 | Relegation seems to be regarded as a terrible fate , worth going to great efforts to avoid . |
| 24 | This ‘ heliacal rising ’ , to use the term employed in Greek astronomy , thus came to be regarded as the natural fixed point of the ‘ Sothic ’ calendar . |
| 25 | In Hellenistic and Roman times the Chaldeans , as the Babylonians were called , came to be regarded as the great experts in astrology . |
| 26 | Clocks thus came to be regarded as status symbols . |
| 27 | Students came to be regarded as trouble-making drones , supported by the tax-payers ' money , indulging themselves at others ' expense , and frivolously wasting their own and other people 's time . |
| 28 | Thus , a clause in your contract to the effect that your employment will ‘ automatically terminate ’ , if , for example , you fail to return to work on the due date after a period of leave , is likely to be regarded as an invalid attempt to ‘ contract out ’ of modern job security laws . |
| 29 | They are an important source for two reasons : they indicate that the overload problem has been a constant since the Second World War and is not peculiar to the sixties , seventies and eighties , and that even what has come to be regarded as the most efficiently run administration since 1945 had serious difficulties in the handling of business . |
| 30 | Information providers should develop some level of personal contact with managers , if they are to be regarded as trusted sources . |