Example sentences of "be regarded " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could legitimately be described as ‘ dubious tactics ’ on Malham Cove in the early 70s would have been regarded as quite normal in the early 60s and would be considered style of pathological purity in the 90s . |
| 2 | The UDR , which is predominantly Protestant , has traditionally been regarded with distrust by many nationalists . |
| 3 | Women pastors have long been regarded as something quite normal . |
| 4 | The main shift , however , is in the new emphasis the White Paper is bound to place on intervention and regulation , words that have been regarded as mostly unpalatable in Tory conference debates over the past decade . |
| 5 | First because he or she has been regarded ( especially in psychoanalytic theory ) as one who fears the difference of the ‘ other ’ or opposite sex , and , in flight from it , narcissistically embraces the same sex instead . |
| 6 | But both have been regarded as politically reprehensible , camp because allegedly insulting to women , machismo because allegedly aping the masculinity oppressive of women ( lesbian and straight ) and gays . |
| 7 | With a few exceptions , such as Liberia under Tubman and Tolbert , and Gabon under Bongo , foreign investors have been regarded with feelings of wariness or hostility . |
| 8 | In their villages of origin the women had been regarded as contributing less to the economic position of the family than the men , but they had at least been recognised as crucial to the economic life of the community . |
| 9 | Until very recently professional sportsmen have been regarded by directors as skilled workmen ; footballers ' incomes were not calculated in the same way as transfer fees according to market value but in relation to what other working-class men could expect to earn . |
| 10 | The scheme was innovatory in providing housing at controlled rents in a converted building on a spectacular riverside site , something which previously had been regarded as the preserve of affluent owner occupiers . |
| 11 | It would probably unleash another burst of investment as firms took advantage of opportunities which had hitherto been regarded as too risky . |
| 12 | This has been capped by the well publicised current appearance of no less than Rain Man ( Warner ) for sale ( £14.99 ) as well as for rent , when hitherto the two spheres have tacitly been regarded as mutually exclusive . |
| 13 | Although the returns would have been regarded as uneconomic two years ago , government advisers will pay out the second-lowest bill for underwriting in the history of public sell-offs . |
| 14 | Iraq and Iran have long been regarded as strategic counterweights . |
| 15 | Sleep had always been regarded as being in some way analogous to death ; the hypnotic trance was seen as having aspects of both conditions . |
| 16 | The wealth and power he clearly possesses by the time he is reunited with his brother would have been regarded by the writer and the first hearers of the story as clear signs of God 's blessing . |
| 17 | Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour . |
| 18 | When Molyneaux was first elected to Westminster for South Antrim in 1970 , he had been regarded by Paisley as a conservative ally . |
| 19 | Gratitude to him has always been greater in the Orthodox churches of the East than in the West , where his domination of the church has often not been regarded as an altogether unmitigated good , at least in its consequences . |
| 20 | It could mean the recovery for the communal purposes of the monastery of land which had previously been regarded by an aristocratic family as a private-property share in its endowments . |
| 21 | For nearly thirty years that crusade has been regarded as one of his least successful , whereas a later British Crusade at Earls Court in London in 1966 has always been seen as a triumph . |
| 22 | This was not , of course , just a Protestant response , although it benefited the Protestants that the great Catholic powers of France and Spain should tear one another apart ; their temporary truce in 1556 had been regarded as a significant reversal to the cause of reform , and when the war was renewed one of the leading English preachers , Christopher Goodman , was to urge the English not to fight for Spain , just as Knox urged the Scots not to fight for France . |
| 23 | Congregationalists , for example , noted in their Year Books from 1898 to 1901 that they had installed 144 new organs ; as early as 1873 William Shepherdson , a Member of the College of Organists , reminded Nonconformists that a hundred years before , organs ‘ were beyond the reach of small Churches , while as to Chapels … the placing of an organ … would have been regarded as an act of profanation . ’ |
| 24 | Although folk-dance is embedded in their way of life , ballet has long been regarded much as the diplomatic service is in Britain : good money , plenty of respect and no political controversies . |
| 25 | For 200 years City offices have been regarded as a near certain store of value . |
| 26 | This extraordinary process of programmed cell death has long been regarded as essential to development , the process of growth from spherical egg to an entire human being . |
| 27 | But generally these researches have been regarded as a branch of historical studies , suitably only for professed historians . |
| 28 | Often , however , the facilities provided for them have been lamentable , not merely basic but squalid — safety and comfort has not been regarded as a priority — a prevailing stench of stewed onions — in stark contrast to the different world , only yards away , in the board room and the lucrative executive boxes . ’ |
| 29 | Five points instead of four for a try and the scrapping of a much-abused offside law had been regarded as inevitable , but experimental changes to rucks and mauls , switching the advantage to the defending side , received only a cautious welcome among leading coaches yesterday . |
| 30 | Coming on the heels of the Ashby Report , which had lacked conviction in Tutorials and had recommended that the reference to them in grant regulations be dropped , the Board 's decision seemed to be another blow to what had traditionally been regarded as the apex of WEA work . |