Example sentences of "could be regarded [prep] a [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 | This sentence could be regarded as an elliptical version of the deductive explanation given in ( 27 ) . |
| 11 | Alternatively , sentence ( 29 ) could be regarded as an incorrect empirical explanation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Erm quality could be regarded as an empty word . |