Example sentences of "[noun sg] can be regarded [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | RIGHT Religion can be regarded as a primitive attempt to explain scientifically all the phenomena around us . |
| 3 | On this analysis , the 1950s-60s fertility boom can be regarded as a once-for-all anachronism . |
| 4 | Compact can be regarded as an equal opportunities initiative . |
| 5 | Even a letter to the Police Review can be regarded as a form of indiscipline : |
| 6 | In this respect , his pluralism can be regarded as a more sophisticated version of monism . |
| 7 | That which vibrates within the electron can be regarded as a unit of pure consciousness . |
| 8 | Akasha can be regarded as the universal ‘ soul ’ , with the universal field — or Sakti — acting as its dynamic means of expression . |
| 9 | Definition : Consumption can be regarded as total expenditure by households on goods and services which yield utility in the current period . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Man and machine can be regarded as sub-systems each making a distinctive contribution towards the achievement of the purposes of the working system . |
| 12 | If section 6(2) is interpreted in this way , the liability of the contravener can be regarded as a primary liability ; the liability of the responsible third party is an accessory liability . |
| 13 | Some have indeed argued that such a community can be regarded as a sort of superorganism , which adapts to the environment , regulates its numbers , stores information and behaves in a strongly cognitive manner . |
| 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 | Duration can be regarded as a first-order measure of interest rate risk : it measures the slope of the present-value profile . |
| 16 | And , in a sense the World Council of Churches at this point can be regarded as the supreme legislative body of the World Church . |
| 17 | Formally , the dielectric constant can be regarded as the equivalent of the mechanical compliance , rather than the modulus , and this highlights the fact that mechanical techniques measure the ability of the system to resist movement , whereas the dielectric approach is a measurement of the ability of the system to move , given that the groups involved must also be dipolar . |
| 18 | Each vertex can be regarded as a triangular pyramid with a base to edge ratio of π . |
| 19 | The boughs grow out from the trunk at nearly the same angle throughout the life of the tree and the sapling can be regarded as a geometrical model of the fully grown tree . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , probably the K-type can be regarded as the principal type . |
| 22 | Outgoing student calls are made from a pay phone , so that the telephone charge can be regarded as a purely administrative expense . |
| 23 | Though the Earth and the Moon can be regarded as a double planet system this is not an association of twins . |
| 24 | The way in which our primary schools are organised , both in curriculum terms and in the pattern of the school day , prompts reflection on the range of viewpoints which can be sincerely held when education can be regarded in such humanistic terms . |
| 25 | The dissolution of a polymer in a solvent can be regarded as a two stage process . |
| 26 | Entropy can be regarded as a measure of the disorder of a system or , equivalently , as a lack of knowledge of its precise state . |
| 27 | At one extreme , the description of the reflex pathway can be regarded as an account of a " real-time " journey of the impulses from the pain receptor along the sensory fibres to the spinal cord and back along the motor fibres to the biceps muscle . |
| 28 | Odour masking and counteraction can be regarded as two distinct methods of odour abatement , although both processes often take place together in practice . |
| 29 | Its use can be regarded as a move back to a more " managed " approach to the determination of interest rates . |
| 30 | The polymer chain can be regarded as a series of small segments covalently bonded together and it is the effect of this chain connectivity which leads to deviations from an ideal entropy of mixing . |