Example sentences of "regard as [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fish caught in gill-nets are generally regarded as being of poorer quality , because they are often dead for many hours before coming aboard the fishing vessel . |
| 2 | His teachings were regarded as being of such importance that they are used unaltered to this day at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna . |
| 3 | The evaluation could also be regarded as being of the summative type , in that information was given of the functioning of a nearly finalized course . |
| 4 | Here the discipline is regarded as being of an applied and pragmatic nature and research is empirically oriented , usually with an emphasis on procedural and institutional concerns , towards policy relevance and problem-solving . |
| 5 | The implications of this paper could be regarded as being of considerable significance and must , therefore , be viewed with caution until further corroborative evidence can be produced by large-scale excavation on the site of the ‘ villa ’ and a detailed ground survey of the large area of the suggested tempelbezirk . |
| 6 | The report nonetheless considers that some sort of control is necessary , and also favours the introduction of a legal pre-emption right on works of art regarded as being of national importance , and which risk leaving the country . |
| 7 | Expeditions led by a king were regarded as being of greater importance and were invariably larger than those led by others , however exalted in rank a royal lieutenant might be . |
| 8 | Language understanding is generally regarded as being of greater importance than generation , since understanding requires the recognition of many paraphrases for the same command or information , whereas generation may be satisfied with the production of just one . |
| 9 | All macro-level features which can not be made intelligible in this way are regarded as being of secondary importance to the outcome of the story . |
| 10 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 11 | The growth of institutional investment is regarded as being of particular significance in this respect . |
| 12 | The matters regarded as being of common interest under this title are listed in Article K.1 : |
| 13 | The lexicons have been regarded as being of only secondary importance or their production considered to be trivial . |
| 14 | As hon. Members may or may not recall , Conservative Members had a free vote , a conscience vote , because the Bill was regarded as being of sufficient importance to require people to make up their own minds . |
| 15 | Well I 'm probably regarded as being of a point just to the right of Ghengis Khan on these matters . |
| 16 | Four of them are in cities of what you might regard as being of particular interest — Tripoli , Beirut , Damascus and Baghdad . ’ |