Example sentences of "can not be regard " in BNC.

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1 A gesture can not be regarded as the expression of an individual , as his or her creation ( because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture , belonging to nobody else ) , nor can it even be regarded as that person 's instrument ; on the contrary , it is gestures that use us as their instruments , as their bearers and incarnations .
2 But the twists and turns of Currie 's political career are simply a graphic illustration of the fact the SDLP can not be regarded as the Labour Party in Northern Ireland .
3 The evidence of three recent controlled studies indicates that clients with bulimia nervosa can benefit to a similar degree from treatments which can not be regarded as forms of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy ( Fairburn and Cooper , 1989 ) .
4 ‘ UDCs can not be regarded as a success if buildings and land are regenerated but the local community are by-passed and do not benefit from regeneration ’ .
5 The company has informed your two banks , where you have substantial overdrafts , I understand , that your employment with us has ceased , and we can not be regarded as guarantors .
6 This remark emphasizes again the point previously made that moral considerations , which can not be regarded as principles in the Kantian sense , are involved in situations of moral dilemma or in what Winch calls ‘ ‘ the perspective' ’ of the action' .
7 These offences can not be regarded as trivial because sometimes they result in an employee 's or innocent bystander 's death , serious injury , or permanently impaired health .
8 Although certain details of the painting do coincide almost exactly with features of other works by Neroccio , the work as a whole can not be regarded as a copy .
9 Findings based on very limited evidence can not be regarded as being firmly established and need to be verified by means of additional observations and cases .
10 While failure to establish an effective Teachers ' Council supports the view that teaching can not be regarded as a profession , the establishment of such a Council would be fraught with administrative difficulties .
11 This deviant case analysis , while yielding important insights , can not be regarded as providing all the variables needed to explain firm by firm variations , as more research is necessary to construct a more refined typology , in particular one which could distinguish between the different types of professional integration here revealed , i.e. attitudinal , dependence on court , and dependence on the good opinion of high status practitioners .
12 Lastly , the points used in the control group can not be regarded as suitable : electrical stimulation of needles only 2 cm from the real points is unlikely to be without some effect .
13 The empirical evidence suggests , however , that the supervision which institutional investors exercise over the management of a company is minimal and can not be regarded as a sufficient control over the managers of large public companies .
14 Even so , Finnis remains committed to the proposition that in determining the concept of property the legislator 's choice can not be regarded as wholly unfettered or arbitrary .
15 In its annual report of 1938 the Committee stated that ‘ the existing scale of benefits can not be regarded as so fully meeting needs as to make it undesirable to raise them further ’ and continued , ‘ if … the wage system made allowance for dependency , the main objection to further increase in the rates of benefit would be removed ’ ( Quoted in Green , 1938 ) .
16 concluded , ‘ proposals for organic change can not be regarded as a limited change … it introduced a fundamental change within the existing structures of local government ’ ( Stewart et al .
17 One view is that successor States can not be regarded as third parties because of the continuing link between their territory and the treaty .
18 This school can not be regarded as typical , partly because each school and each project is unique , but also because the practical results of the staff energy and imagination which find a focus in the project seemed greater and more far-reaching here than in most other Minor award schools .
19 A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously .
20 He argues that dreams can not be regarded as a neurotic symptom if everyone dreams — unless everyone is neurotic .
21 Whatever is claimed of these traditional philosophical mysteries , including the claim that they enter into mental events , they surely can not be regarded as parts of them .
22 This sentence is therefore more specific than [ 3 ] , and can not be regarded as entirely equivalent in sense .
23 The space-time co-ordinates can not be regarded as simple unstructured cues to interpretation in context .
24 Similarly , the other co-ordinates relevant to the deictic context , speaker , hearer and indicated object , can not be regarded as simple unstructured cues which demand standard specification .
25 Whatever properties are delineated as especially appropriate to material artefacts in general , these can not be regarded as necessary attributes of an individual artefact when considered in any particular social context .
26 The range of quality from very good to squalid is of significance , because at one end of the range many authorities view mobile homes as being more or less equivalent to permanent dwellings , while some of the poorer , less well serviced , caravans can not be regarded as permanent homes .
27 The problem of induction can not be regarded as a decisive refutation because , as I have previously mentioned , most other philosophies of science suffer from a similar difficulty .
28 The respondents in the survey can not be regarded as representative of the general population as these areas contained only 58 per cent .
29 Nevertheless , my conclusion is that to allow a local government authority to sue for libel would impose an added and substantial restriction upon freedom of expression which , having regard to the ability of individuals within a local authority to sue for libel , and to the ability of a local government authority to sue for malicious falsehood , or to invoke the criminal law of libel , can not be regarded as necessary in our democratic society .
30 Whilst , therefore , the criterion of the owner 's nationality is consistent with a fairly widespread international practice , it can not be regarded as forming part of customary international law .
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