Example sentences of "[adv] [be] regard " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would probably unleash another burst of investment as firms took advantage of opportunities which had hitherto been regarded as too risky . |
| 2 | ‘ In the case of SO&sub2 ; and NOx emissions from combustion processes , ’ said the Department , ‘ prevention , or partial abatement , has hitherto been regarded as impractical on grounds of cost , and operators are therefore required to render ground-level concentrations of the emissions harmless by dispersal from high stacks and dilution in the air . ’ |
| 3 | The research focus shifted to the role of the message in referential communication , and also to listeners who had hitherto been regarded as a somewhat passive element . |
| 4 | They may also depend upon getting people from within the department to work to change old policies which have hitherto been regarded as quite satisfactory . |
| 5 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) was heavily defeated in two by-elections , on Feb. 9 and on March 5 , in what had hitherto been regarded as safe LDP constituencies . |
| 6 | Women pastors have long been regarded as something quite normal . |
| 7 | Iraq and Iran have long been regarded as strategic counterweights . |
| 8 | Although folk-dance is embedded in their way of life , ballet has long been regarded much as the diplomatic service is in Britain : good money , plenty of respect and no political controversies . |
| 9 | This extraordinary process of programmed cell death has long been regarded as essential to development , the process of growth from spherical egg to an entire human being . |
| 10 | Simon Robson has long been regarded as first eleven material , while Stedman has bowled with some success in his slower mode . |
| 11 | The University of San Carlos has long been regarded as a hotbed of opposition , and the list of those imprisoned , tortured and murdered is long , even since 1986 . |
| 12 | When FDA clearance comes through the final product in a portfolio of basic food ingredients will be in place — promising the transformation of what has long been regarded as one of Britain 's most boring businesses into a world beater . |
| 13 | With this the criticism of traditional orthodox formulations , which had long been regarded as absolutely central and essential to Christian belief , came on the stage in a new way and ushered in a debate which has continued up to the present . |
| 14 | In a country where , as a popular song puts it , ‘ every son is born a soldier ’ and turns out each year for a spell of military service until he is well into middle age , the army has long been regarded as an essential part of the country 's armed neutrality . |
| 15 | SERBIA 'S president , Slobodan Milosevic , has long been regarded as the artful dodger of Balkan politics . |
| 16 | He has long been regarded by the trade as one of the top sporting gun men in the business , with years of experience behind him . |
| 17 | The British countryside has long been regarded as a source of out-migration and a pool of reserve labour for urban areas . |
| 18 | In Britain , with its strong two-party system , a government defeat on a vote of confidence has long been regarded as a theoretical possibility rather than practical politics . |
| 19 | Second , income tax has long been regarded as a tax of central importance in government management of the economy ; it is a major financial and psychological weapon in securing the success of the Cabinet 's economic strategy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 22 | A British international cap has long been regarded as the ultimate achievement for the amateur golfer . |
| 23 | The residents of Unity Flats are shrugging off the stigma of living in what has long been regarded as one of the city 's most undesirable areas . |
| 24 | Gusmao had long been regarded as a symbol of the resistance to Indonesian rule in East Timor and his capture was a massive blow to Fretilin . |
| 25 | The city , located in a desert basin with little rainfall , has long been regarded as being among the most wasteful of water resources in the Western United States . |
| 26 | The continuous return to the same subject to wring out every ounce of meaning from it , has long been regarded as the hallmark of the true professional . |
| 27 | Among immature Pterygote insects , the gills of mayfly nymphs , the abdominal prolegs if Lepidopteran and Symphytan larvae , the terminal appendages of Trichopteran larvae and the gills of Sialoid larvae have all been regarded as true abdominal appendages ) Snodgrass , 1935 ) , but this is not satisfactorily established ( Pryor , 1951 ) . |
| 28 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |
| 29 | The manner in which death came to men , including those innocent of any offence , could be so appalling that the final stroke could only be regarded as a merciful relief . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal held that the unlawful act would only be regarded as ‘ dangerous ’ if it was likely to cause physical harm , not if mere emotional shock ( unaccompanied by physical harm ) was foreseeable . |