Example sentences of "regarded as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neglect of this obvious truth led to computer programs ( say , for language analysis ) being regarded as failures if they could not record 100% success . |
| 2 | The implication of this is that many mergers can be regarded as failures in the sense that they do not attain the gains in efficiency claimed as their justification . |
| 3 | A leaked World Bank internal report shows that more than one-third of Bank-funded projects completed in 1991 were regarded as failures by the Bank 's own staff . |
| 4 | It looked at 1,800 projects in 113 countries , for which the Bank had lent US$138,000 million , and found that 37.5 per cent of the projects were regarded as failures , compared to 15 per cent in 1981 and 30 per cent in 1989 . |
| 5 | Carbohydrates come in a variety of different forms , all of which are best regarded as sources of energy . |
| 6 | However , since explanations can be regarded as responses to explicit or implicit questions , the research into the pragmatics of questioning in the classroom provides hints about the pragmatics of explanation in the classroom . |
| 7 | When they first came into existence in the late 1970s , the proportion of advanced work which they offered and , therefore their claim truly to be regarded as institutions of higher education , depended on their inheritances from their previous colleges . |
| 8 | After all , the impulsive waves considered by Khan and Penrose may be regarded as idealizations of such waves . |
| 9 | Certain bush-bucks which , like spirits , sleep by day and move by night are similarly regarded as spirit-animals , so their flesh is forbidden to women . |
| 10 | The environmental systems are effectively regarded as machines whose workings can all be discovered , described in differential equation form and whose future activities can thus be predicted in detail if their initial states are known . |
| 11 | The women began increasingly to be regarded as possessions of their families . |
| 12 | The employee inventor argued that the sums received by the employer under the 1983 and 1985 contracts should be regarded as benefits deriving from the possession of a patent over the invention . |
| 13 | These sentences contrast grammatically in terms of phrase structure , and could not , in any logical sense , be regarded as paraphrases of one another . |
| 14 | What a diddy — and I just lit up a roll-up in a no-smoking carriage , but the woman opposite was kind enough to point this out to me , saving me further financial embarrassment and financial loss … now I know why tourists are regarded as idiots the world over , it 's because they are . |
| 15 | Although money is not normally ‘ goods , ’ a coin which is sold as a curio piece , and not as currency , is regarded as goods , Moss v. Hancock ( 1899 D.C. ) . |
| 16 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 17 | Before the Finance Act 1989 , switches within offshore umbrella funds did not count as realisations for either capital gains tax or income tax purposes , but they are now regarded as disposals and so chargeable to CGT and income tax . |
| 18 | Fellatio and cunnilingus are not regarded as perversions , rather as variations of normal sexual behaviour , and a punitive or disapproving approach from the doctor is a thing of the past . |
| 19 | BELOW It is difficult to categorize some rock paintings and carvings as they can be regarded as sites or finds . |
| 20 | Now that herbal usage has been revived so much in other disciplines , the definition has expanded to include plants usually grown nowadays for garden ornament , such as the Christmas rose ( Helleborus niger ) , marigold ( Calendula ) and the Florentine iris ; plants which were regarded as weeds , such as tansy , comfrey , yarrow and herb robert , but are being treated with respect as their usefulness for all sorts of reasons is realized again ; and plants which supply dyes , cosmetics , insect repellents and fragrances . |
| 21 | The wetlands , long regarded as wastes by generations of farmers , have been replaced by a harvest which fits the dictionary definition of ‘ waste ’ in every sense . |
| 22 | In the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth , fraud and accident — especially the accidental loss of a document — are regarded as matters peculiarly appropriate for relief in a Court of Equity — matters which a Common Law Court can not sufficiently deal with . |
| 23 | The training of trainers , programme evaluation and staff development were regarded as areas requiring further attention by many respondents . |
| 24 | However , the courts have frequently recognised that businessmen do not share the lawyer 's desire for certainty , and that insistence that all terms be precisely agreed would prevent many business agreements being regarded as contracts at all . |
| 25 | Shiels or shields are cottages , direct from the Anglo-Saxon , so the town of Galashiels may be regarded as cottages by a stream , or as scattered cottages . |
| 26 | The rates themselves can usefully be regarded as percentages of either factory standard price per unit or average selling price per unit . |
| 27 | The rates themselves can usefully be regarded as percentages of either factory standard price per unit or average selling price per unit . |
| 28 | And this , in turn , would seem to justify Professor Gaddis 's conclusion that the assumption was that such governments , whether in Western Europe or Japan , and whether or not they came to power by legal or illegal means , could only be regarded as instruments of the Kremlin and hence not truly independent . |
| 29 | School meals and milk as well as education maintenance allowances increasingly came to be regarded as complements to a universal scheme of family allowances by its advocates rather than alternatives as had been argued , for example , at the Trades Union Congress in 1930 . |
| 30 | Both these products are made on a large scale and can still be regarded as commodities . |