Example sentences of "[be] regarded as [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 This might have been regarded as making the local manager 's job more straightforward but as one set of pressures was removed others made themselves felt .
2 NILTs have always been regarded as representing the acceptable face of tribunals .
3 Again , the executor and administrator have long been regarded as having the deceased 's possession continued in them ; when they assume office their title relates back to his death .
4 In the Acts and Epistles Christians are regarded as experiencing the Kingdom as a present reality .
5 As a result , the client should be advised that the use of standard terms should not be regarded as removing the need to adopt other sensible business precautions .
6 The issue of currency may be regarded as helping the government to finance its expenditure .
7 The solution lies in removing from the fourth head the bulk of cases which are charitable in spite of the fact that a particular group is primarily benefited , namely gifts in relief of distress , and thereby making possible a more limited definition of the general sections which can be regarded as benefiting the community and a more sweeping rejection of gifts which though benefiting the community do not do so directly .
8 There is nothing to prevent eleven ( or fewer ) Member States entering into a treaty between themselves on matters outside or additional to the existing treaties — indeed the Maastricht Treaty itself , as is well known , envisages less than twelve Member States acting together in the ‘ new ’ areas of Monetary Union and Social policy — and in that sense can hardly be regarded as deepening the Community as previously defined .
9 What the preliminary or collateral fact doctrine seeks to do is to distinguish those elements within the bracket which can be regarded as conditioning the power of the tribunal to go on and consider the merits from the merits themselves .
10 Bearing in mind that these remarks were made before the new section 69(1) was introduced by the Act of 1986 , I do not see that they can be regarded as carrying the matter any further .
11 It follows , therefore , that if the prevention of odour emissions from premises could be regarded as improving the physical environment the local planning authorities have a responsibility to take environmental considerations , including odour prevention , into account in formulating their policies .
12 This sort of experiment shows however that with materials of this character one can not really distinguish between practical strength and brittleness so that the introduction of weak internal surfaces can be regarded as raising the strength .
13 ‘ 6(1) A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal .
14 A divergent process can also be regarded as having the most undefined behaviour possible , since it forever performs internal actions in an effort to decide what its behaviour will be , but never makes any progress .
15 The concept is explained in s.6(1) : A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal .
16 Attempting to get to grips with all the developments in nursing over the past five years is meat enough for any expert , and you will not be regarded as letting the side down just because you are not familiar with all the latest terminology or research in your clinical specialty .
17 Unless such disclosure is regarded as defining the respective rights and duties of the parties ab initio61 it is unlikely to be effective as a means of avoiding liability for breach of duty .
18 To disturb the resting place of any person is regarded as defiling the dead and fortunately , not too many cases are recorded , but one type of archaeological exploration can quite accidentally set off a very volatile and dangerous sequence of events that , on this occasion , cost a man his life and left a whole community in a traumatic turmoil .
19 Parliamentary socialism is regarded as elevating the parliamentary means above the socialist end , so precluding socialism and sacrificing it to the struggle for office and government .
20 China is regarded as possessing the largest untapped hydro potential of any country and projects to a capacity of over 6,000 MW are currently under construction .
21 In the matter of contract , drunkenness is regarded as having the same effect as insanity .
22 281 is regarded as extending the protected class , there was in Shah 's case no relationship of influence or likely influence over the sureties by those connected with the debtor company of which the bank had any knowledge .
23 If the two treaties have identical parties the subsequent treaty is regarded as amending the earlier .
24 The connections between gender and class were apparent enough in the early modern period , and if the transvestite was a pervert or invert it was precisely in the pre-sexological senses of these ideas ; whether actually or only in the paranoid imagination of the dominant , she was regarded as upsetting the entire social domain , even when her sexual ‘ orientation ’ was not the issue .
25 The test was tried first on the horse who was regarded as having the lowest intelligence : a mare who lived around the family home .
26 The high turnout , at 75-80 per cent , was regarded as giving the UNP a more convincing mandate than the low-turnout elections won by Ranasinghe Premadasa and the UNP in 1988 and 1989 [ see pp. 36394-95 ; 36467 ] .
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