Example sentences of "[am/are] to be [verb] as [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This latter category may form the raw material or foundation for comparisons , but such studies are to be regarded as preparatory , rather than being fully comparative , since the questions asked of the data are at best implicit and few analytical statements are drawn from them .
2 Dances which emphasize indecent movements are to be regarded as obscene .
3 In Greek mythology , as one might expect , many examples of heroes who resemble Gilgamesh can be found , and it is likely that the Amazons are to be understood as mythological recollections of the traumatic character of the impact of the new , aggressive and masculine child-rearing regimes of the mothers of early agriculture .
4 His general thesis was that the decisions from 1884 to 1945 , which held that the child when born can not recover damages for pre-natal injury , represent the pure doctrine of the common law , while all the decisions from 1946 onwards , which all took the opposite view , are to be rejected as heretical and wrong .
5 Take care to establish whether within the terms of such a contract you are considered part of the rostered qualified workforce , or whether you are to be treated as supernumerary .
6 Statements conveying preferential relationships between terms indicate which terms are to be treated as equivalent to one another , or which concepts are to be grouped together under one index term .
7 It should be noted that the act stipulates that the time limits are to be treated as approximate only .
8 Lord MacMillan in Perry v Astor ( 1935 ) 19 TC 255 at p289 stated : The Section does not declare that the dispositions with which it deals are to be treated as non-existent in a question between the maker of the disposition and the Inland Revenue .
9 If propositions purporting to be about fictional things are to be accepted as meaningful , then it is only on condition that they can be paraphrased into propositions about non-fictional things ; for example , into propositions about persons who are thinking , alleging , claiming , etc. something fictional .
10 As for the meaning of dependent conditionals , it is possible and perhaps necessary to say of them , as it is commonly said of " if " statements of various kinds , that they are to be taken as primitive , in the sense of not being open to analytical definition or reductive analysis .
11 These seven canvases from the original ten — three are now lost — are to be offered as separate lots with estimates between £50,000–70,000 and £80,000–120,000 .
12 But as a suggestion it seems rather to name the difficulty than to solve it : which false beliefs are to be counted as relevant ?
13 Slimming pills containing high levels of guar and locust bean gums are to be banned as potential health risks , the Ministry of Agriculture has announced .
14 With the breakdown of faith in the fundamental rationality of man we no longer ask , for example , whether the drives of Freud 's Id and Super-ego are to be classed as egoistic , or see a puzzling self-contradiction in masochism .
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