Example sentences of "regarded [conj] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was regarded as being outside the remit of this survey although it was noted that an intentional consequence of any effective training programme should be to diffuse ideas and attitudes throughout the working environment , not least of all to counteract erroneous ideas or unwelcome attitudes . |
| 2 | He — um — he appointed you as his special envoy , you see — gave you carte blanche as far as time was concerned ; in fact he insisted that your entire stay here from day one should be regarded as being on company business . ’ |
| 3 | The UK Parliament is certainly not widely regarded as being at all competent in the scrutiny which it exercises over public spending , and few people are under the illusion that it is difficult for government departments to deceive MPs and Select Committees about necessary levels of expenditure and unnecessary levels of waste . |
| 4 | This can be expressed very physically in the way breasts are now regarded as being for feeding babies rather than for making love , and most couples experience tensions over their sexual relationship in the early months and even years of parenthood . |
| 5 | Larger quantities will be regarded as being for commercial purposes , unless buyers can prove otherwise . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His teachings were regarded as being of such importance that they are used unaltered to this day at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna . |
| 8 | The evaluation could also be regarded as being of the summative type , in that information was given of the functioning of a nearly finalized course . |
| 9 | Here the discipline is regarded as being of an applied and pragmatic nature and research is empirically oriented , usually with an emphasis on procedural and institutional concerns , towards policy relevance and problem-solving . |
| 10 | The implications of this paper could be regarded as being of considerable significance and must , therefore , be viewed with caution until further corroborative evidence can be produced by large-scale excavation on the site of the ‘ villa ’ and a detailed ground survey of the large area of the suggested tempelbezirk . |
| 11 | The report nonetheless considers that some sort of control is necessary , and also favours the introduction of a legal pre-emption right on works of art regarded as being of national importance , and which risk leaving the country . |
| 12 | Expeditions led by a king were regarded as being of greater importance and were invariably larger than those led by others , however exalted in rank a royal lieutenant might be . |
| 13 | Language understanding is generally regarded as being of greater importance than generation , since understanding requires the recognition of many paraphrases for the same command or information , whereas generation may be satisfied with the production of just one . |
| 14 | All macro-level features which can not be made intelligible in this way are regarded as being of secondary importance to the outcome of the story . |
| 15 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 16 | The growth of institutional investment is regarded as being of particular significance in this respect . |
| 17 | The matters regarded as being of common interest under this title are listed in Article K.1 : |
| 18 | The lexicons have been regarded as being of only secondary importance or their production considered to be trivial . |
| 19 | As hon. Members may or may not recall , Conservative Members had a free vote , a conscience vote , because the Bill was regarded as being of sufficient importance to require people to make up their own minds . |
| 20 | Well I 'm probably regarded as being of a point just to the right of Ghengis Khan on these matters . |
| 21 | To ensure that this is so it must be agreed that it is regarded as being beyond the capacity of the individual to alter , that is , it has to become ‘ sacred ’ , or enshrined in a ‘ god ’ . |
| 22 | Nobody would argue that Britons in the decade 1982-1992 enjoyed living standards that 1930s world champions , Benny Lynch and Jackie Brown , would have regarded as being beyond the average working man 's reach , yet this period of comparative prosperity produced 11 British world champions : the greatest number per decade in British boxing history . |
| 23 | Whereas in European antiquity the days of the week were regarded as being under the influence of the principal heavenly bodies — Saturn-day , Sun-day , Moon-day , and so on — for the Maya each day was itself divine . |
| 24 | It is not surprising , therefore , that the frontiersmen ( graničari ) were regarded as being amongst the most loyal of the Emperor 's troops . |
| 25 | Its scenery is widely regarded as being among the best in the country . |
| 26 | An embarrassing historical fact for falsificationists is that if their methodology had been strictly adhered to by scientists then those theories generally regarded as being among the best examples of scientific theories would never have been developed because they would have been rejected in their infancy . |
| 27 | The city , located in a desert basin with little rainfall , has long been regarded as being among the most wasteful of water resources in the Western United States . |
| 28 | Sleep had always been regarded as being in some way analogous to death ; the hypnotic trance was seen as having aspects of both conditions . |
| 29 | According to this reading , the repetition of episodes and the lack of a linear structure can be regarded as being in keeping with the formal realism of a narrative which is being conducted by someone whose overwrought state of mind colours his perception of the world around him , and who is no longer able to distinguish between imagination and reality . |
| 30 | ( ii ) If , as in 1.7.1 S is closed under ρ it follows that ρ\S x S is a binary operation on S. For psychological reasons and to stop pedantry getting out of hand , we replace ρ\S x S by the technically incorrect but intuitively more palatable symbol ρ and speak accordingly of ρ as being a binary operation on S. Thus for s and t in S we write sρt whether s and t are regarded as being in S or in A. |