Example sentences of "regard as [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The most depressing aspect he had found had been the neglect of the fundamental issue of liberty raised by MPs ’ proposals to prevent what they regarded as abuses by the press . |
2 | The latter were incensed at what they regarded as hitting below the belt and retaliated with vicious shootings at policemen regardless of whether they were the men responsible . |
3 | The teachers ' authority is not to be regarded as delegated by the parent . |
4 | That rate of : wage inflation which can be attributed solely to union militancy can be regarded as resulting from the power struggle between unions and employers for a bigger share of the national ‘ cake ’ and between the unions themselves for higher places in the wages ‘ league table ’ . |
5 | Even where the only ‘ standard ’ terms of the seller are those in the exemption clause itself , still a buyer whose contract includes that exemption clause could well be regarded as buying on the seller 's ‘ written standard terms of business . ’ |
6 | Success for the normal children ranged from 82 per cent to 100 per cent , and Fenn suggests that , as a rule of thumb , a child who fails the test should be regarded as functioning below the level of the normal 4- to 5-year-old . |
7 | Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’ |
8 | Davies v. Sumner is the leading authority on the meaning of the expression ‘ in the course of a business ’ and has been followed in a case under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , R. & B. Customs Brokers v. United Dominion Trust , where it was held that a business 's buying of two or three cars over a period of five years was an insufficient degree of regularity for the latest such purchase to be regarded as made in the course of the business ( see paragraph 10–18 above . ) |
9 | The allowance can not normally be paid for the first time after pension age because it is regarded as overlapping with the retirement pension . |
10 | But they were fairly sure that Lothar would persist in his old tricks , and in that case , as Nithard candidly admitted , " they would have to be regarded as absolved from the oath they had sworn " . |
11 | Viewed overall , only half the minister 's members are now regarded as experienced in the park purposes they are appointed to present . |
12 | This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself . |
13 | Second , as regards durability , the goods should last for a reasonable time and any breach should be regarded as occurring at the time of supply rather than when the lack of durability became apparent . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | ‘ It was acknowledged that the proposed new measures could be regarded as detracting from the sport 's essential sense of adventure and freedom . ’ |
16 | In a block of premises each tenant can normally be regarded as consenting to the presence of water on the premises if the supply is of the usual character , but not if it is of quite an unusual kind , or defective or dangerous , unless he actually knows of that . |
17 | Some have connections which are so close to education that they can be regarded as falling inside the group of like-minded supporters . |