Example sentences of "to be regarded [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under a c.i.f. contract which provided ‘ each shipment to be regarded as a separate contract , ’ the sellers had an option whether to send separate shipments or to send all the goods by one shipment . |
| 2 | Charles … allowed himself for the sake of a few thousand pounds to be regarded as a greedy and litigious landlord rather than as a just ruler or as a national king . |
| 3 | Relegation seems to be regarded as a terrible fate , worth going to great efforts to avoid . |
| 4 | When one recollects that bequests were made in the hope of securing the prayers of beneficiaries for the donor 's soul , it may be assumed that bridges , and also roads , were in sufficient use for such gifts to be regarded as a good piece of spiritual investment . |
| 5 | If it is to be regarded as a genuine composition from the court of Cadwallon , it would seem to belong to the very eve of Hatfield . |
| 6 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | His earlier much-fabled ‘ ruthless determination ’ and fanatical single-mindedness were now becoming to be regarded as a major liability , and the command to the 6th Army to fight to the last man was seen as its fateful demonstration . |
| 9 | ‘ Space will have to be regarded as a primary thing with matter derived from it . ’ |
| 10 | … Worse still , torture came to be regarded as a normal practice . ’ |
| 11 | There are examples in some countries of such candidates being elected and of pressure-group members of parliament being sufficiently numerous and permanent to share in office and to be regarded as a permanent parliamentary group — in other words , to behave in many ways like a party . |
| 12 | If you wish to be regarded as a proper model , you must behave like one . |
| 13 | Terms were agreed at Cirencester by which , it would seem , the western Saxons lost control of Cirencester and the lands along the Severn which became part of the territory of the Hwicce , so that the kingdom of the Hwicce has come to be regarded as a Mercian creation of the time of Penda . |
| 14 | They show that the CS First Boston Group continues to be regarded as a leading firm by informed industry sources and , most importantly , by clients . |
| 15 | Some of them obviously exceeded their duties in their zeal for examination improvement , as a memo of December 1942 makes clear : These examinations are to be regarded as a domestic affair of the Local Education Authorities for the conduct of which no responsibility must rest upon Inspectors … |
| 16 | This may be one reason why sign language has come to be regarded as a special need in itself rather than being aligned with other home languages , which would exempt deaf children from the legislation of the Education Act 1981 . |
| 17 | Since returns are still anticipated from most of the remaining 15 courses , the response rate has to be regarded as a preliminary indication of how well the survey worked using course organisers as distributors and collectors . |
| 18 | Any other section of the community is to be regarded as a particular class of persons . ’ |
| 19 | He was one of the most sensitive and influential writers of the twentieth-century renaissance in Welsh literature and came to be regarded as a remarkable innovator in both style and theme . |
| 20 | In systems integration , for example , Gartner Group rates Bull fourth in Europe and sixth in the world , which is a fact that continually gets lost amid all of Bull 's other bad news — and the French authorities seem to be oblivious to how badly the regular injections of state cash to prop Bull up play in the outside world , causing the company to be regarded as a corporate basket case that would no longer exist if it were subjected to the normal commercial disciplines faced by all its foreign competitors . |
| 21 | The reputation of Angelica Kauffman ( 1741–1807 ) has risen steadily in recent years , since she ceased to be regarded as a minor decorative artist and began to reassume the esteem accorded her by her contemporaries . |
| 22 | It used to be regarded as a premium fuel for domestic and commercial use , now we just send it up the chimneys of power stations . |
| 23 | They had asked for a greater number of " peacekeeping forces " to be sent , although Sahnoun on Aug. 12 was to emphasize that the proposed deployment was not to be regarded as a peacekeeping operation , but was to protect food distribution . |
| 24 | At one time the line of the defences used to be regarded as a significant rural-urban divide , but the repeated recognition of extensive extra-mural suburbs has necessarily shifted the emphasis of enquiry . |