Example sentences of "regarded as [art] " in BNC.

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1 A seasoned assessor will soon spot someone who is not taking an active and full part in the activity and it will be regarded as no better than trying to force your way on to the centre stage .
2 Even its original version he had regarded as no more that a bargaining chip .
3 Although there were from time to time reports of " crossed aphasia " , in which the lesion is on the same side as the preferred hand ( Bramwell , 1899 ) , these were initially regarded as no more than occasional exceptions of the " contralateral rule " .
4 Do you think there 's a better means of selection , other than what seem generally to be regarded as a rather barbaric system ?
5 Added to this , it is regarded as a special treat by snails and slugs who will soon polish it off given the opportunity .
6 Even a letter to the Police Review can be regarded as a form of indiscipline :
7 It has always seemed to me rather sad that almost any move from beat duty is regarded as a promotion .
8 We find social relationships simplified , while myth and ritual are elaborated … if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action , it can be seen as potentially a period of scrutinization of the central values and axioms of the culture in which it occurs .
9 This last point is sometimes regarded as a bad fault in basic training , but it is almost inevitable in a long-ranging competition reverse punch .
10 Jewish education is understood in three phases : primarily in the home , which is regarded as a sort of mini-temple , so strongly are the emphases and traditions posited there ; at school , in the normal way , as with all growing children ; and at Hebrew school , which is attached to the synagogue under the rabbi or the teachers appointed by him .
11 There is a point here of immense importance for the understanding of Leonard which he shares with Layton ( who preferred to be regarded as a poet-prophet in the Hebrew tradition ) .
12 The directors recommended that the dividend payout to shareholders should be increased by 25 per cent to 7.5p a share which was widely regarded as a move designed to ward off a takeover bid .
13 Three weeks ago , the 102nd Airborne Division , Russian-trained and regarded as a crack unit , was rushed from its base at Asmara to the front line , but it too has been mauled by the rebels , who swept through the mountains flanking the main road , capturing all the towns as far as Woldiya .
14 The ANC team was led by Thabo Mbeki , the organisation 's chief of information and the man regarded as a likely successor to Oliver Tambo .
15 For the Maronites , a Muslim leader represented the victory of Arab nationalism ( and Islam ) over a country which they and the French regarded as a pro-Western , Christian homeland .
16 Welch is the first to admit that when the Theatre Royal opened in 1982 it was widely regarded as a white elephant , which quickly became little more than a stopping off point for second-rate touring products .
17 Leicestershire is widely regarded as a pioneer of ‘ progressive ’ primary methods .
18 Excluding prices of food , drink and tobacco , regarded as a more reliable guide to the underlying trend , factory gate prices rose 0.5 per cent during September and were 5.5 per cent higher than a year earlier .
19 ‘ The really worrying thing is that higher education is being regarded as a commodity for sale rather than something that we should invest in .
20 Cecil Parkinson , regarded as a potential successor to Mr Lawson at the Exchequer , said in a BBC television interview : ‘ You heard the Prime Minister last night say very clearly and openly that she and the Chancellor are in total agreement and that she has every confidence in him .
21 According to sources close to BSB , the ‘ squariel ’ — the square , flat receiving dish — is no longer regarded as a problem .
22 I was never consciously frightened of him and felt close to him and was regarded as a favourite child to him in some ways .
23 The policy to which we devoted years of labour must be regarded as a thing of the past .
24 In 1940 he wrote of an almost sanctified rural life as something vitally different from the separately developing urban culture which so disturbed him and pleaded that agriculture should be regarded as a vocation , rather than merely an industry , though he pointed out that such a view involved the whole orientation and scheme of values of a future society .
25 Because still in 1988 , under the pressure of social instability and political crises , homosexuality could be regarded as a kind of privation or error , an ‘ inverted positivity ’ , an inimical , pernicious , inauthenticity always threatening to return from within the true and the authentic .
26 The announcement in the Medium Term Financial Strategy ( MTFS ) in the 1980 budget of monetary targets — which would fall year by year ( see Table 8.3 ) — was also regarded as a means of lowering the expectations of wage bargainers .
27 She was the first British prime Minister to mount a sustained challenge to post-war consensus politics and , more than any other post-war Prime Minister , she is often regarded as a figure apart from her Cabinet .
28 Surveys indicate that Mrs Thatcher is not regarded as a warm or compassionate person .
29 Within the Cabinet , it was , paradoxically , Snowden — usually regarded as a sea-green incorruptible on the issue of free trade — who , overcome by hatred of Labour and a desire to smash his old party , appeared to relish the idea of an early election in which Labour would go down to defeat .
30 As late as the 1900s , Mrs Humphry Ward , the best-selling Victorian novelist and leading anti-suffragist , stressed that marriage had to be regarded as a necessary discipline , for if husbands and wives could not resolve their differences what hope remained for the larger polity ?
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