Example sentences of "not regarded " in BNC.

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1 Surveys indicate that Mrs Thatcher is not regarded as a warm or compassionate person .
2 ‘ The various projects were not regarded as competitive , ’ Danischewsky recalled , ‘ so we read each other 's scripts and kicked in with our suggestions and contributions to all the films . ’
3 Today 's vagrants , squatting under railway arches and in shop doorways , are not regarded as having strayed from anywhere .
4 But the relations by blood or marriage of a wife are not regarded as being related to the relations of her husband : thus if A and B are two brothers and C and D two sisters , the marriage of A with C will be no bar to the marriage of B and D.
5 By the end of the century the advocates of Neo-Malthusianism , as it was called , were aiming to bring child-bearing under control ; life , except in strict Catholic families , was not regarded as the gift of God .
6 The general fast was not regarded with the same favour everywhere ; in London it was dubbed ‘ General Farce ’ by the National Union of the Working Classes , which organised a demonstration .
7 The overplus of the Greek over the Hebrew was not regarded by Origen as less than fully canonical ; the suggestion that the overplus should be read for example of life and instruction of manners , but not to establish disputed doctrine , was left to Jerome .
8 And there were reports from many parts of the Reich that ‘ a newsreel without pictures of the Führer was not regarded as up to standard ’ .
9 They found that ‘ learning difficulty ’ was being interpreted as poor achievement in traditional academic subjects and was not regarded as an appropriate description of emotional and behavioural difficulties .
10 An obvious objection is that the attitude of respect is not regarded by those who display it as the source of their obligation .
11 This explains Conservative dislike of the churches ' drawing attention to the question of the duties of government to the citizenry — it was not regarded as proper for the churches to take an interest in political matters of this kind .
12 It is clear , however , that it was not regarded as a useful adjunct to the civil rights agitation .
13 The attitude of staff is always conditioned by the lead from the top and if cleaning is not regarded as a serious requirement at this level this attitude is quickly communicated to all levels with inevitable results .
14 Fellatio and cunnilingus are not regarded as perversions , rather as variations of normal sexual behaviour , and a punitive or disapproving approach from the doctor is a thing of the past .
15 Although people in the Cape Town ballet world thought highly of his promise , John 's talent as a choreographer was not regarded as proved by the time he left South Africa ( at only eighteen , why should it have been ? ) , and other young choreographers were at least as highly thought of .
16 For , although there was an absolute past , it was normative and was not regarded as receding .
17 Although there was evidence of cosmic order in the motions of sun , moon , and stars and in the cycle of the seasons , this order was not regarded as securely established but had continually to be achieved by the integration of conflicting divine wills or powers .
18 This meant that pensions were not regarded as a right but were dependent on the establishment of eligibility through contributions or ‘ work-testing ’ .
19 Memorandum on classes of business not regarded as appropriate for Cabinet discussion ’ is a minute from Brook to Bridges dated 21 April 1950 , two months after Labour had been returned to power with a slim majority of six and two months before the Korean War stimulated a huge increase in defence spending .
20 What I think was true was that the Falklands was not regarded as a front-line issue for some period of time , and indeed the forecast was that it would n't really boil up again until August or thereabouts in 1982 .
21 The agricultural export economy was not regarded as needing a skilled workforce and little priority was given to schooling for the majority of the population .
22 Before this , the regime was not regarded with favour by many of the major donor agencies in the West .
23 However , this type of economic support , though acknowledged as necessary , was not regarded as ideal : Guillermo Martinez of ANDEN commented in 1989 :
24 Some authorities were better organized in relation to UDG submissions , and some areas were simply not regarded as attractive to the market — even when UDG was taken into account .
25 Deposits can also be held at non-bank financial institutions such as building societies , mortgage corporations , savings and loans associations and finance houses ; however , such institutions generally have to hold cheque account balances at banks themselves and thus public deposits with them are not regarded as part of the nation 's money supply in many countries .
26 Unfortunately aptitude for singing and acting was not regarded as important .
27 If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ?
28 The reason why this specific condition is not regarded as repeated is that it is incompatible with the condition to which the substitution is subject : the substitutes are to be admitted if no children are born to the testator or if any born die before puberty , whereas the manumission is subject to the condition that there are children who are still alive at puberty .
29 When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … .
30 Consequently in the western world diamonds were at first not regarded as objects of beauty — other stones such as emeralds and red garnets were preferred .
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