Example sentences of "to [be] treated [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even these two conclusions need to be treated with great caution . |
| 2 | Incidentally , the cattle of Landes used to be treated with great care as draught oxen ( they were never overworked and were given special headgear to ward off flies ) but were also used in amateur ‘ bull races ’ in which bad-tempered oxen and cows were teased into charging at people . |
| 3 | Words demand to be treated with great truth . |
| 4 | In each case the greatest threat needs to be addressed first and where two or more addictions are equally strong , then each needs to be treated with equivalent concern . |
| 5 | It tends to medicalise and individualise social and economic problems so that the stress of the effects of poor housing , for example , is treated as an individual depressive illness — to be treated with psychotropic drugs . |
| 6 | He had not seen any of his children for ten years ; but he guessed that Alexei knew that he hated to be treated with formal courtesy . |
| 7 | Eye-witness evidence has to be treated with considerable reserve . |
| 8 | The fact that heads and teachers of very differing professional styles and values were working in Leeds throughout this period demonstrates , of course , that other factors were at work and that the wilder accusations of patronage which came our way needed to be treated with considerable caution . |
| 9 | This is plausible but by no means necessarily the case , and therefore the evidence from meteorites has to be treated with considerable reserve . |
| 10 | Homosexuals have as much right to be understood , to be treated with compassionate love as the rest of us . |
| 11 | If a patient suffering from cholera were to be treated with intravenous sterile solutions , he/she would require an average of 10 litres of the solution ( plus antibiotics ) during the course of the treatment . |
| 12 | Five hundred NHS patients waiting for plastic surgery are to be treated at private hospitals , as part of a Government initiative to cut waiting lists . |
| 13 | Before this Board the commissioner advanced two main submissions , namely : ( 1 ) that the business of the bank was one and indivisible since all the profit earning operations were directed from Hong Kong by staff therein employed , no overseas branch of the bank was involved and the funds employed in the purchase of the certificates of deposit arose from the carrying on of the business in Hong Kong ; and ( 2 ) that in any event , even if the sale and purchase of certificates of deposit failed to be treated as separate operations , nevertheless the profits from these operations arose in Hong Kong . |
| 14 | It takes its cue from other kinds of liberation , and rests the call for Animal Liberation on the recognition of the rights of nonhuman animals , including in particular their right not to be treated as mere means to human ends . |
| 15 | We are within the Constitution as it stands , nothing illegal is going on and we claim the right to be treated as democratic citizens assembling as we are free to do . |
| 16 | Private customers are typically individuals and small companies who are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; non-private customers are , typically , " ordinary business investors " but also include expert private customers who agree to be treated as non-private customers . |
| 17 | The main categories of non-private customer are : ( 1 ) Ordinary business investors ( see page 36 below ) ; ( 2 ) Individuals who are acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; ( 3 ) Expert private customers ( whether individuals or small business investors ) who have agreed to be treated as non-private customers ( see page 37 below ) ; ( 4 ) Small business investors who : ( a ) are acting in the course of carrying on investment business , or ( b ) the firm reasonably believes are ordinary business investors ; or ( c ) are trade customers ( see page 38 below ) in relation to the transaction concerned ( who are technically treated as ordinary business investors ) . |
| 18 | Such sums may , of course , be specifically agreed to be treated as additional capital contributions , though in practice that possibility is unlikely to have been discussed , and it would certainly be a rather haphazard method of raising finance . |
| 19 | Instead ‘ acquisition provisions ’ will have to be treated as above-the-line exceptional items , hitting pre-tax profits and earnings per share . |
| 20 | [ Children ] … love to be treated as Rational Creatures sooner than is imagined … [ by which ] … |
| 21 | Potential customers are to be treated as actual customers . |
| 22 | In his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) , Galileo argued that the language of the Bible had been accommodated to the minds of the uneducated , with the consequence that texts that superficially implied a stationary earth and a moving sun were not to be treated as literal scientific descriptions . |
| 23 | This Order , which is now in force , specifies that various building society resources which appear in annual accounts or accounting records are to be treated as capital resources to be aggregated with reserves for the purpose of the first criterion of prudent management . |
| 24 | Were the parents of Dronfield to be treated as naughty boys and girls , or were they to be treated as intelligent working people ? |
| 25 | Hence the words man , mankind , humanity have come to be treated as interchangeable synonyms . |
| 26 | Were the parents of Dronfield to be treated as naughty boys and girls , or were they to be treated as intelligent working people ? |
| 27 | We are making arrangements with Forces charities for gifts to be treated as charitable donations . |
| 28 | Similarly , aberrant sexual behaviour was more likely to be treated as organic malfunction in middle class women and insanity in working class women . |
| 29 | The goal of psychoanalysis was the development of a new set of techniques for use in psychiatry , and in this context dreams tended to be treated as neurotic symptoms rather than as a normal aspect of experience . |
| 30 | We must now change gear somewhat , and ask what it would take for such relationships to be treated as satisfactory explanations . |