Example sentences of "could be regarded [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The care taken over the disposal of the dead indicates a deeply held conviction that , provided the appropriate steps were taken , death could be regarded as a transitional state .
2 This argument could be regarded as a rebuttable presumption , but then the inexorable logic of the theory breaks down ; it could not be said that legal rules were always to be determined by the ordinary courts .
3 By analogy , therefore , where the refusal of planning permission makes it impossible for a defendant to comply with the terms of a nuisance order , this could be regarded as a reasonable excuse .
4 In general , Beccaria 's philosophy exhibits what could be regarded as a curious combination of concern with the rights of the individual under the social contract on the one hand , and utilitarian reductivism on the other — curious because rights theory and utilitarianism are often thought to be philosophically incompatible .
5 A novel like The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , for instance , could be regarded as a latter-day Middlemarch , with Meg rising up and breaking free as Dorothea does , and it is possible to detect the influence of Wilson 's favourite writer , Dickens , in works as dissimilar as Anglo-Saxon Attitudes and No Laughing Matter .
6 Rational choice models , like class conspiracy theories , can be considered as micro-reductive variations on the dominant ideology thesis , just as , I suggested earlier , the concept of racism as necessary false consciousness could be regarded as a macro-reductive correlate of ‘ irrational prejudice ’ arguments .
7 This could be regarded as a pragmatic approach to the design of devices for the organization of knowledge by subject .
8 Although the brief for the study could be regarded as a loose one , the full SSM was not formally applied by moving deliberately through each of the SSM stages , although in retrospect there were many similarities .
9 This could be regarded as a superior explanation to the others .
10 Given that borrowed funds can always be placed on deposit the spread could be regarded as the real cost of borrowing .
11 The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state .
12 It could be regarded as the original monocoque , because it used a lightweight structure of four small-diameter steel tubes and a stressed aluminium skin .
13 This sentence could be regarded as an elliptical version of the deductive explanation given in ( 27 ) .
14 Alternatively , sentence ( 29 ) could be regarded as an incorrect empirical explanation .
15 If Pool Re was the only viable cover offered on the market , this could be regarded as an anti-competitive agreement under article 85 , unless special exemption was obtained form the European Commission .
16 The officers ' comments about what they had seen were observations of association between W and others , but in no case was any act shown on W's part which could be regarded as an overt act in respect of the conspiracy charge .
17 Choppy 's comments about schools in urban areas is quite interesting , because the first one was actually in Lincolnshire , which in no terms could be regarded as an urban area , and quickly looking down the list — and there are actually about sixty throughout the country — an awful lot of them have been in rural heartlands like Oxfordshire .
18 However , it was not at all convinced that a slight penetration with one finger could be regarded as an aggravated assault and yet considered it impractical to distinguish between different forms of digital penetration .
19 Erm quality could be regarded as an empty word .
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