Example sentences of "be [adv] regard [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Even with the ending of East-West confrontations and the prospect of nuclear armouries being run down rapidly , it is hard to imagine a world in which civil reactors are widely regarded as safe and the problems of acceptable disposal of nuclear wastes are overcome .
2 a ‘ cultural heritage ’ view emphasises the responsibility of schools to lead children to an appreciation of those works of literature that have been widely regarded as amongst the finest in the language ;
3 He replaced a health minister who had been widely regarded as extremely successful in increasing access to health services through the introduction of Medicare .
4 However , as the sole candidate and with the very high rate of abstention ( only 28.28 per cent of voters turned out ) , his presidency had been widely regarded as lacking in legitimacy .
5 On the whole they are best regarded as expressing a desire to maintain and demonstrate right relations between God , man and his neighbour .
6 Such laws , although sometimes run together with causal laws , are best regarded as otherwise .
7 If this is the case extrapolated profiles are best regarded as means to supplement knowledge rather than as a primary method .
8 Although they are generally regarded as being tender , many gardeners in cold northern areas have reported these plants to have survived several recent winters without harm .
9 Fish caught in gill-nets are generally regarded as being of poorer quality , because they are often dead for many hours before coming aboard the fishing vessel .
10 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 .
11 It may take drastic discontinuities , of the kind described above , to highlight the fact that the environment over a period must be taken into account before one can attempt to predict the course of personality development , yet children reared under normal home circumstances are generally regarded as remaining under such constant environmental conditions that this consideration does not hold .
12 Late morulae are generally regarded as 16- to 32-cell embryos which have not cavitated and it is at this stage ( -84 h post-hCG ) that they pass through the uterotubal junction from the oviduct into the uterus .
13 Cars which are generally regarded as highly desirable , such as convertibles , will enjoy the most dramatic change in their fortunes .
14 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 .
15 The theme stressed by Johnson Mattheys voluntary presenter , Peter Skinner , from the Chemicals and Process Development group at Royston , was that although precious metals are generally regarded as rare and costly their unique properties ensure that they are of surprising benefit to Society in many areas of everyday life .
16 For example , documentation standards in the market have been criticised , and are generally regarded as falling well behind standards in the US CP and ECP markets .
17 But it is certainly er a body which is er recognised as responsible and indeed in er tax law and in various other ways er its promulgations and the standards that it sets are are generally regarded as acceptable but these matters of course are kept under review .
18 Professor Colin Bell , of Edinburgh University 's sociology department , said : ‘ The conference represents a unique opportunity for the doctors and nurses who care for people who are generally regarded as being ‘ hopelessly ill ’ to get together with lawyers , philosophers and sociologists to discuss the very real dilemmas — social , legal and medical — posed by such people .
19 If you have gained the impression that you are dealing with a balding manic-depressive axe-wielding lunatic , then I must hasten to add that I am generally regarded as a bit eccentric but quite harmless by my neighbours !
20 All elements which represent links or associations between one element and another do so using a common set of attributes , and are thus regarded as forming the attribute class pointer .
21 And I think they 're both regarded as fairly civilised , ’ Julius remarked .
22 For a songwriter , the main advantages of owning a publishing company are usually regarded as keeping total control of , and earning 100 per cent of the income generated by , his or her songs .
23 Low potencies are usually regarded as being those up to and including the 30c or 30x .
24 Places of human burial , be they cemeteries or church graveyards or Ancient Briton , Roman or Saxon burial barrows or mounds , are usually regarded as worthy of respect and reverence .
25 Protostomes , such as annelids and arthropods , are usually regarded as having spiral , determinate embryonic cleavage , and the embryonic blastopore is situated at the rear , at or near the site of the future mouth .
26 However , to public and professionals alike many old buildings are still regarded as representing little more than four external walls .
27 Although her views are still regarded as highly eccentric outside reactionary conservative and fascist circles , it is interesting to note that some historians now argue that secret societies like the IRA and the Mafia have indeed played a significant role in world events , and that the Illuminati conspiracy in the 1780s was truly a model for future revolutionary organization .
28 The Treaty of Rome does not regard all state subsidies as incompatible with the Common Market ; indeed , subsidies to consumers , and aid to seriously underdeveloped areas , are both regarded as being compatible with Community law .
29 These academics may be respected , but they are also regarded as tiresome .
30 They are also regarded as being capable of causing illness or even death to get their way .
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