Example sentences of "[prep] be considered [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Are there not many moralists who would not wish to be considered religious ?
2 Pre-war values never did come back ; rent restriction never did cease to be considered necessary , even after the building of three or four million new houses ; subsidies never were discontinued .
3 If not dismissive in this way it is likely to be considered unimportant and never thought about again .
4 An even older Sivapithecus ( 17 million years old ) has been claimed for Kenya as being ancestral to the hominid chimpanzee-gorilla lineage a relationship which is confirmed by molecular studies — and the Asiatic orang-utan lineage ; whether this animal is to be considered congeneric with the later species of Sivapithecus is disputed , however .
5 The latter region incorporates the material that is oligomeric , and the line separating II and III represents the oligomer-polymer transition where the chains begin to become long enough to be considered capable of adopting a gaussian coil conformation .
6 The Public Order ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1981 makes it necessary for organisers to give the police 5 days ' notice of a march for it to be considered legal .
7 Both these main suites show the combination of ease and comfort which was beginning to be considered essential to the perfect home of the Twenties .
8 The area was about four hours away from Edinburgh or Glasgow — near enough to be accessible for weekends , far enough to be considered remote .
9 For inclusion in the study subjects had to be considered healthy and asymptomatic with no major medical illnesses and in particular , no past or present history of gastroduodenal disease or dyspeptic symptoms .
10 It is rare for usage which is in the form of the exchange 's actual rules , as distinct from other trade usage , to be considered unreasonable .
11 THEY used to be considered dirty , slow , noisy and uncomfortable .
12 Another problem , and one that was intimated in the previous paragraph , is the question of who is to be considered accountable to whom .
13 ‘ Elements ’ are precise descriptions of what people need to be able to do to be considered competent and have associated with them ‘ performance criteria ’ , which are the key indicators used to judge the individual 's level of performance .
14 Aggro is likely to be considered appropriate in situations where opposing fans attempt a territorial invasion of their rivals ' ‘ end ’ ; where one hooligan fan stares at , or adopts a threatening posture towards an opponent , or calls him a demasculatory name , such as ‘ cunt ’ , ‘ wanker ’ , or ‘ poofta ’ .
15 To be considered subversive in Colombia is to be one step away from the grave .
16 The conditions that must be satisfied for such generalizations to be considered legitimate by the inductivist can be listed thus :
17 The study recommends that the acquired bank 's discounted cash flow following the acquisition must exceed the price paid for it , for the acquisition to be considered reasonable value .
18 Nonetheless , a standard form drafted by both parties or by bodies representing both parties is more likely to be considered reasonable .
19 That is simply because it has to be that low if some of these houses are to be considered habitable at all , and if others are to be inhabited by two , or often by three , families at the same time .
20 In two respects , however , the definition is wider than at common law in that the Act ( a ) renders a species dangerous if it poses a threat to property and ( b ) allows for a species to be considered dangerous if it is not commonly domesticated in Britain , even though it may be so domesticated overseas .
21 GOOD drawing ability used to be considered important at school , not only as a skill that might give expression to a child 's aesthetic and artistic inclinations , but also one that would be useful in practical ways — in recording flora and fauna in nature study , for example .
22 Kinnock had all the best jokes : sad fact that this no longer seems to be considered important .
23 This involves two decisions : which neighbouring points are to be considered local and which changes are atypical ?
24 Specify a figure between 1 and 100 to signify when the media type is to be considered full ( 95% is a recommended figure ) .
25 ‘ The removal or the retention of a child is to be considered wrongful where — ( a ) it is in breach of rights of custody attributed to a person , an institution or any other body , either jointly or alone , under the law of the state in which the child was habitually resident immediately before the removal or retention ; and ( b ) at the time of removal or retention those rights were actually exercised , either jointly or alone , or would have been so exercised but for the removal or retention .
26 What has become a matter of concern is that as society becomes more complex , and as the common coin of politics moves away from socialism — and indeed social democracy — it becomes important to preserve and develop those rights which have come to be considered fundamental .
27 But maybe the offer is refused because the kitchen sink has been enthroned as the living nerve-centre of the home , and to abandon it is to lose the right to be considered worthy and hard-working ; she who washes the dishes puts everybody else under an obligation .
28 Gastric clearance had to be considered abnormal in three asymptomatic patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy according to Feldman and coworkers as well as to our own criteria : in healthy subjects all 10 markers were emptied from the stomach by six hours .
29 For Schein , it is ‘ the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented , discovered , or developed , in learning to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration , and that have worked well enough to be considered valid and , therefore , to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive , think and feel in relation to these problems . ’
30 Prices for these wines used to be considered advantageous , but no longer .
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