Example sentences of "regarded it as a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others regarded it as a measured response to the Dublin government 's paper proposing ‘ new institutions ’ to satisfy the nationalist aspiration and provide ‘ executive functions for the development of practical north-south co-operation and co-ordination in all areas of mutual benefit . ’ |
| 2 | The sale of beer by the gaoler in late eighteenth-century Britain was apparently universal — Howard called it the ‘ tap ’ and seems to have regarded it as a necessary evil . |
| 3 | By way of contrast , the Spanish conquerors of northwest South America ( modern Colombia ) , where the first deposits were found , regarded it as a dangerous adulterant of gold and silver and tried to prohibit its export — unavailingly , although its supply to European chemists was made capricious . |
| 4 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |
| 5 | Addressing a press conference on June 23 , French Finance Minister Pierre Bérégovoy said that while some countries favoured associate membership for the Soviet Union , others had regarded it as a transitional status . |
| 6 | Its supporters regarded it as a happy augury that on the same day the Soviet Union finally called off its blockade of Berlin . |
| 7 | Either would have regarded it as a special achievement and in either the semi-democratic command structure would have ensured that a number of men would have participated in the decision where to detonate it . |