Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [adv] regard [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will not go into great detail on the dangers of using statistics here but merely point to some precautions which must still be taken even when using statistics which are generally regarded as reliable . |
| 2 | Cars which are generally regarded as highly desirable , such as convertibles , will enjoy the most dramatic change in their fortunes . |
| 3 | Such transgressions range from the socially acceptable parking on the ubiquitous yellow lines to the stigmatising drunken driving and eventually to offences which are generally regarded as morally reprehensible . |
| 4 | Much previous research , in ignoring the social structural features of class and gender , has tended instead to focus on a variety of other factors in explaining supposed patterns of ‘ underachievement ’ , most of which are now regarded as highly dubious . |
| 5 | However , ‘ professionalism ’ can be interpreted in a variety of ways , some of which are now regarded as pejorative . |
| 6 | Up to this time many astronomers had regarded Venus as the Earth 's twin , and that beneath the clouds , which were widely regarded as consisting of water , there were oceans and perhaps vegetation and animals . |
| 7 | Such matches and mismatches change over time , and so therefore does the use of the argument , and subjects which were previously regarded as vocational even if only in relation to a teaching career — are now justified on general grounds . |
| 8 | Shrines , chantries , and reliquaries were plundered or demolished , and the interiors of churches were denuded of their images , which were now regarded as idolatrous . |
| 9 | The third , which is usually regarded as representing the rung of the ‘ ladder ’ below reckless wounding or GBH ( contrary to section 20 ) but above common assault , is assault occasioning actual bodily harm . |
| 10 | The wartime state had many of the characteristics of the ‘ welfare state ’ , which is popularly regarded as having been created after the war . |
| 11 | ‘ The new syllabus is required because marketing is highly dynamic subject which is now regarded as of key importance to many disciplines other than advertising and sales . |
| 12 | Conversation analysis , which is sometimes regarded as distinct from discourse analysis ( Levinson 1983:286 ) , is a branch of study which sets out to discover what order there might be in this apparent chaos . |
| 13 | In Byelorussia , which was widely regarded as retaining one of the most conservative republican leaderships , it had been decided to allocate a quota of reserved Supreme Soviet seats for official organizations ( a practice applied in the March 1989 elections to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies but since labelled undemocratic and abandoned for national elections — see p. 36978 ) . |
| 14 | No composer was considered worthy of the name until he had written an opera , which was then regarded as representing the peak of musical achievement . |
| 15 | These bodies have various functions ; none is exclusively concerned with what is commonly regarded as being their primary function , i.e. the making of laws . |
| 16 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |