Example sentences of "may [be] regard as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A voluntary group which is a company may be regarded as ‘ influenced ’ by the local authority where both 20% or more of its voting members or board of directors are associated with the local authority and 50% or more of its business . |
| 2 | The most intellectually satisfying explanation is that embodied in the doctrine of karma , in accordance with which the dead child may be regarded as having completed the final stage of a soul-life that , in previous incarnations , had almost earned its passage and , after one more brief sojourn , was able to escape from the cycle of death and rebirth . |
| 3 | The Butler Committee argued that relatively minor mental disorders may be regarded as falling within section 2 simply because this outcome is thought to be preferable to mandatory life imprisonment . |
| 4 | Stimuli A and B may be regarded as physically similar to the extent that they share common , c , elements . |
| 5 | If your employment ends because of , say , revolution overseas , the contract may be regarded as frustrated , ie completely brought to an end by operation of law , because it is no longer possible for the contractual duties to be performed as you and your employer originally envisaged . |
| 6 | This kind of administrative structure may be regarded as likely to lead to the implementation of policies that are at variance with those favoured by elected local councils . |
| 7 | The church of St Polyeuktos was 51.45 m long and 51.90m. broad , which , with some allowance for error or subsidence , may be regarded as precisely 100 cubits square . |
| 8 | These things are fundamental , and are the natural outcome of the evolutionary process operating the laws of survival , and the order outlined above may be regarded as self-evidently constituting the best that would be achieved by very early man . |
| 9 | CBT may be regarded as similar to expert decision support , an off-line supportive system . |
| 10 | Any dietary factor which delays the absorption of carbohydrate may be regarded as beneficial — and here , once again , is where dietary fibre appears in a valuable preventative and protective role . |
| 11 | In this respect , they may be regarded as following Gandhi 's suggestions and advice . |
| 12 | ‘ Periodical ’ may be regarded as almost synonymous , but seems to be increasingly reserved for the more literary types . |
| 13 | Initial attempts made by the Bangladeshi Government to introduce oral rehydration therapy to the people of Bangladesh ( NORP ) may be regarded as inappropriate . |
| 14 | In this instance you may be regarded as falling short in the modesty stakes , as your question may be interpreted to mean that you want even more adulation . |
| 15 | For most fairly pure crystalline solids , however , the grain-boundaries are quite strong and , for a hard brittle material , a polycrystalline solid may be regarded as behaving in a manner comparable to whiskers and other single crystals and this , as we have seen , is very like the way glass behaves . |
| 16 | There are many reasons why it may be regarded as helpful to gather information about a child 's language , and the uses to which any formal assessment results may be put will influence decisions about how assessments can best be carried out . |
| 17 | For example , a child with language which is less advanced than the language of other children of that age would be regarded as having delayed language ; in contrast , children whose language stands out because it is deficient when compared with the way in which they perform on other social and intellectual tasks may be regarded as having a language deficit . |
| 18 | A child who has problems in any area of development may be regarded as being likely to benefit from some form of special educational placement , either full time or part time . |
| 19 | The upbeat account of the firm 's local fortunes may be regarded as somewhat surprising given the fact that IBM Eastern Europe has not announced the conclusion of any major contracts so far this year . |
| 20 | The most important consideration was freedom of action ; an understandable response , as childbearing may be regarded as equivalent to a fifteen-year sentence of partial house arrest , without remission for good behaviour . |
| 21 | They may be regarded as having been , at central government level , ideologically inspired : that is , undertaken either on the view that the possibility of rescuing a failed , conventionally organised enterprise would serve to promote Socialism in a neo-Marxist version of it absolutely opposed to Capitalism , and that the occasion was one which must not be missed even though the odds against success were heavy ; or in a spirit of uncritical idealism , sure that the ideology guaranteed success , that the gloomy appraisal was therefore wrong and the distinction between co-operative means and socialist ends a carping irrelevance . |
| 22 | Criterion descriptions may be regarded as setting curriculum objectives , as describing the performance of those attaining the objectives , and as specifications for test items or assessment situations . |
| 23 | The findings may be regarded as mutually supportive . |
| 24 | Rape and sexual assault may be regarded as sexually deviant when an individual gains the main pleasure and satisfaction from the act of sexual violation rather than from the coitus involved . |
| 25 | This is because the non-singular matrix may be regarded as made up of elementary operations , and these can not change the rank of a non-vanishing minor of order r . |
| 26 | Indeed , although regulatory offences in the abstract may be regarded as of minor consequence they may in certain cases have drastic results . |
| 27 | Disciplines which exist only at the intersection of other disciplines may be regarded as merely derivative or parasitic , and their very identity doubted or denied ( Albrow 1986 ) . |
| 28 | Nationalism may thus be regarded as one form of ethnocentrism , in which cultural groups and their essential characteristics are defined by nationality and the cultural attributes of one or more nations may be regarded as inherently superior or inferior . |
| 29 | Nationalism may also contain racial elements in so far as particular nations may be regarded as deriving from specific racial stocks ; and biologically defined communities may be regarded as the prime source of cultural characteristics . |
| 30 | In that regard it appears that membership of an association creates between the members close links of the same kind as those which are created between the parties to a contract and that consequently the obligations to which the national court refers may be regarded as contractual for the purpose of the application of article 5(1) of the Convention . |