Example sentences of "[was/were] once regard [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid there are segments of the left who are especially envious of its capacity to animate the groups which were once regarded as their traditional supporters . |
| 2 | But what is striking is not so much the fact that Auguste Comte or Herbert Spencer were , after all , persons of some intellectual stature , than that men who were once regarded as the Aristotles of the modern world have practically vanished from sight . |
| 3 | The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land . |
| 4 | The early chapters of Genesis were once regarded by some Christians as an embarrassment . |
| 5 | Unemployment , where a job was once regarded as a birth right , is 10.6 per cent and rising . |
| 6 | Although the music they are dealing with is as old as the hills they have still managed to inject a little of their own venom into what was once regarded as a mummified corpse . |
| 7 | ( Tenure of this sort was once regarded as an exclusively late development ; but its roots are now thought to have been very old . ) |