Example sentences of "may [be] regard " in BNC.
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| 1 | A voluntary group which is a company may be regarded as ‘ influenced ’ by the local authority where both 20% or more of its voting members or board of directors are associated with the local authority and 50% or more of its business . |
| 2 | In addition to rot and insect attack which may be regarded as defects intrinsic to timber , problems also arise from the way timber elements of traditional buildings were assembled . |
| 3 | Agency may be regarded as an extension of legal personality . |
| 4 | The most intellectually satisfying explanation is that embodied in the doctrine of karma , in accordance with which the dead child may be regarded as having completed the final stage of a soul-life that , in previous incarnations , had almost earned its passage and , after one more brief sojourn , was able to escape from the cycle of death and rebirth . |
| 5 | Intent to kill may be regarded as the most obvious and indisputable form of fault element for murder , but to some extent that depends on the meaning of ‘ intent ’ . |
| 6 | The Butler Committee argued that relatively minor mental disorders may be regarded as falling within section 2 simply because this outcome is thought to be preferable to mandatory life imprisonment . |
| 7 | In short , we should call the offence reckless driving , but the occurrence of death , even though it may be regarded as bad luck , should aggravate the sentence . |
| 8 | Lady Antonia 's biography is the most substantial example of what may be regarded as the new and sober school of historians of Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 9 | Since so much assistance comes from outwith the area , there is a danger that what is being done may be regarded by them as alien , like Lord Leverhulme 's ill-fated projects . |
| 10 | Stimuli A and B may be regarded as physically similar to the extent that they share common , c , elements . |
| 11 | The emergence of the so-called ‘ new narrative ’ presupposes the existence of an ‘ old narrative ’ which it superseded and , in effect , the early 1940s may be regarded as a watershed . |
| 12 | Laundering of cloths in the ‘ hot wash ’ cycle of any machine may be regarded as disinfection . |
| 13 | Any time spent in doing other things than attempting to transmit the meme may be regarded as time wasted from the meme 's point of view . |
| 14 | However , this may be regarded as a longer-term aim . |
| 15 | Ending discrimination against older consumers may be regarded as a moral imperative , but it also makes sound economic sense . |
| 16 | The back may be regarded as the gateway to the whole person — body , mind and psyche . |
| 17 | If your employment ends because of , say , revolution overseas , the contract may be regarded as frustrated , ie completely brought to an end by operation of law , because it is no longer possible for the contractual duties to be performed as you and your employer originally envisaged . |
| 18 | The Public Health Act of 1875 which may be regarded as a landmark in the advancement of local administration , gave to these Boards a code of powers in relation to public health and other matters , and established urban and rural sanitary authorities . |
| 19 | Even specific changes which are beneficial at the educational level may be regarded with suspicion because of the political context in which they were made . |
| 20 | Roman monuments and inscriptions may be found , but the majuscule writing employed on these may be regarded as a subject separate from the general theme now being explored . |
| 21 | This kind of administrative structure may be regarded as likely to lead to the implementation of policies that are at variance with those favoured by elected local councils . |
| 22 | It is most unlikely for an odour per se to cause actual physical damage , but where it causes a diminution in the selling value of the property or injures the plaintiff 's business by , for example , causing potential customers to be lost , this may be regarded as sufficient invasion of the plaintiff 's interest to be tortious . |
| 23 | Even though odour emission may be regarded as a major consideration , as shown above , only rarely is planning permission refused on that ground alone , generally permission is granted but the development modified in some way to minimise any potential odour nuisance . |
| 24 | After all , the impulsive waves considered by Khan and Penrose may be regarded as idealizations of such waves . |
| 25 | However , as described in Section 12.4 , Chandrasekhar and Ferrari have also shown that , for the colliding plane wave situation , the Ernst function may be regarded either ( a ) as containing the metric functions , or ( b ) as a potential for those functions . |
| 26 | The learner may be regarded as a resource person by encouraging intercommunication between learners in role playing , and experiential learning , which are then followed by discussion and analysis of the effectiveness of the situation enacted , and the feelings which were generated towards each other . |
| 27 | He tells us that a concentration of lead in water of 50 g/litre may be regarded as an ‘ upper safe limit ’ and yet later on mentions with approval a suggested limit ( for children ) of 0.1 ug/g for lead in food . |
| 28 | The church of St Polyeuktos was 51.45 m long and 51.90m. broad , which , with some allowance for error or subsidence , may be regarded as precisely 100 cubits square . |
| 29 | These things are fundamental , and are the natural outcome of the evolutionary process operating the laws of survival , and the order outlined above may be regarded as self-evidently constituting the best that would be achieved by very early man . |
| 30 | This contribution to the accumulating ‘ goodness ’ may be regarded as the first which is not due to the ruthless survival laws which belong to the second period of this book . |