Example sentences of "are regarded as [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The UK gives the least subsidies of any major marine manufacturing country and only warship yards are regarded as of strategic significance .
2 Parental support and co-operation are regarded as of paramount importance and to facilitate this the school is open until 9 p.m. on one evening each week during term , when parents meet heads of departments and/or class teachers according to a system of appointments .
3 Share salesmen are regarded as on a level with hard sell futures salesmen .
4 Since for each item there is a 50 per cent chance of a correct response simply by guessing , children with scores of 8 or less on any set are regarded as in need of retesting , while very low scores ( 0–1 ) indicate that the child is systematically misunderstanding the meanings to be derived from word order .
5 In the simplest electrostatic picture of a complex such as , for instance , the lone pairs of the oxygen atoms in the water molecules are regarded as in pure ligand orbitals and the eight d electrons of the nickel are held in pure d orbitals .
6 EC officials said that the areas , which are regarded as among those most in need of aid , had been omitted because they fell outside the administrative boundary of the Highland and Island region .
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