Example sentences of "can be regarded [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst the Charter can be regarded with suspicion because of its association with political pacts , and therefore a drift to centrist politics , it does nevertheless raise important issues about legislative reform . |
| 2 | Even a letter to the Police Review can be regarded as a form of indiscipline : |
| 3 | Inadequate thinking , as I hope to have shown in my section on mental development , can be regarded as the inadequate control of mental attention , and , like inadequate action , fails through misdirection , disinhibition , and unco-ordination . |
| 4 | Firstly Muslims ( like Christians and unlike Hindus ) have set prayers which should be said during the day , so that Christian prayers can be regarded as a threat or at least an alternative to Islam , and secondly , while Hindu and Sikh parents often regard Christian prayers for their children as so much water off a duck 's back , Muslims , again like Christians or religious Jews , object to any other religious influence on their children . |
| 5 | Hues of the spectrum — red , orange , yellow , green , blue and purple — can be regarded as qualitative refinements to the quantitative black-grey-white scale . |
| 6 | Each vertex can be regarded as a triangular pyramid with a base to edge ratio of π . |
| 7 | The Gardener 's and Florist 's Dictionary of 1724 can be regarded as Philip Miller 's first contribution to garden literature . |
| 8 | In building up its stable of branded prescription drugs , Medeva has bought a number from SmithKline Beecham , including Dexedrine , which can be regarded as a UK equivalent of methylphenidate , and the products Normax and Micralax , which are used to treat constipation arising from use of opiates in severe pain cases . |
| 9 | The contestation of meaning can be regarded as a fundamentally transgressive practice which can have a liberating effect on the reader — hence his emphasis on the value of the ludic aspect of fractured narrative which had a ‘ carnivalesque ’ role ( almost in the Bakhtinian sense ) of freeing the reader . |
| 10 | In other industries a preliminary grouping would be the distinction between water soluble and water insoluble soils but in food industries all soils can be regarded as water insoluble . |
| 11 | Zarathustra 's monotheistic religion can be regarded as a response to the social conditions of his time , an age of transition when a settled agricultural and pastoral community was being threatened by predatory tribes who still followed the nomadic way of life . |
| 12 | He came to the conclusion that time can be regarded as a numbering process associated with our perception of before and after in motion and change . |
| 13 | The seventh part of his third Ennead ( ‘ On Time and Eternity ’ ) can be regarded as meditation on the passage in Plato 's Timaeus ( 37–8 ) where time and the creation of the world are discussed . |
| 14 | Since the timekeeping was governed mainly by the flow of water rather than the escapement action , this device can be regarded as a link between the timekeeping properties of a steady flow of liquid and those of mechanically produced oscillations . |
| 15 | These can be regarded as classics of their kind , and are important not only because of their intrinsic interest as dramatic events in history , but also because they illustrate some of the facets of volcanic eruptions which will be discussed in later chapters . |
| 16 | You may be able to claim constructive dismissal even if the incident which directly leads to your departure is minor , if it can be regarded as the last straw . |
| 17 | Platelet aggregation , or platelet-platelet stickiness , can be regarded as a special case of platelet adhesion and follows adhesion of platelets to injured surfaces . |
| 18 | Odour masking and counteraction can be regarded as two distinct methods of odour abatement , although both processes often take place together in practice . |
| 19 | Papinian is discussing whether , if a non-heir builds a monument , this can be regarded as a negotium gestum and the costs charged to the heir . |
| 20 | This power can be regarded as an unavoidable element in the evolutionary process , which will always be a part of ongoing life . |
| 21 | Although these institutions can be regarded as providers of ‘ external ’ courses , considerable co-operation on production of courses is possible , and desirable from the library 's point of view . |
| 22 | This.vertical Phillips curve ( labelled LPC in Fig. 6.4 ) can be regarded as a warning to policy-makers that continued attempts to reduce unemployment below its natural level can only lead to higher and higher inflation rates and no long-run decrease in unemployment . |
| 23 | Some clearly feel the need for the Ultimate to be expressed in symbolic , personalized form , and image worship can be regarded as part of the desire of human nature for symbols . |
| 24 | It can be regarded as a principle apart from morality on which morality can be based since it provides a reason why it might be worthwhile for a man to act morally . |
| 25 | After this time they were never really separated for any long period , and the course of Dorothy 's life can be regarded as the same as Wordsworth 's . |
| 26 | This practice can be justified on the grounds that many narrative pieces , including those related in our extract , were written separately in Germany in 1798–9 ; and so the philosophy can be regarded as a later intrusion . |
| 27 | New forms of behaviour are the result of what can be regarded as a ‘ mind climate ’ or group mental energy creating a morphogenetic field . |
| 28 | That which vibrates within the electron can be regarded as a unit of pure consciousness . |
| 29 | Akasha can be regarded as the universal ‘ soul ’ , with the universal field — or Sakti — acting as its dynamic means of expression . |
| 30 | The energy enters the particle via a similar point ( laya centre ) which can be regarded as a vacuum point in the charge where the vortex field will not be deformed in any manner . |