Example sentences of "considers [pron] " in BNC.

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1 FoE is heavily involved in the rainforests ; WWF considers them its ‘ major international priority ’ ; Greenpeace started its rainforest campaign in 1989 and pondered the possibility of seaborne harassment of ships carrying timber exports .
2 Jimmy Schmidt , the nationally renowned chef and owner of Detroit 's Rattlesnake Club , considers them part of ‘ a holy trinity … caviar , morel mushrooms and truffles . ’
3 Once we have them , our reason considers them and we come to see that wholes are equal to the sum of their parts , or that all numbers are even or odd .
4 Dr Peter Stefanini , managing director of Coalite Chemicals , said that on reviewing its business activities , Anglo took ‘ a new view on the chemical division and the liquid fuel division ’ and now considers them to be non-core businesses .
5 Amnesty International considers them to be prisoners of conscience .
6 Subjects affected by such apprehension will tend to modify their responses in a way they think the experimenter considers them to be healthy .
7 At that age the law considers them to be dead , so their children inherit their houses and money .
8 Considers them beneath contempt .
9 Professor Malcolmson considers them to have been " fairly common " , and Dr Dobson listed 383 between 1717 and 1800 .
10 I think he 's spoken to you about me , and I 'm sorry he considers me to be unreliable : happy-go-lucky was how he described me , I imagine .
11 ‘ The beastly old woman has told me , quite bluntly , that she considers me very much an ex -wife .
12 It is quite possible , then , that my employer fully expects me to respond to his bantering in a like manner , and considers my failure to do so a form of negligence .
13 However , if one forgets for a moment the organizational structures of the two parties and considers their policies , one sees a relatively united unionist movement .
14 Gladys Sellers considers their position in today 's competitive market
15 If they leave during this period they will be entitled to redundancy pay provided that the industrial tribunal considers their leaving was reasonable or the job at the new location was unsuitable .
16 A more recent collection , which reflects some of the same debates and also considers their implications for the economic geography of the UK is The Geography of De-Industrialisation edited by Ron Martin and Bob Rowthorn ( London and Basingstoke , Macmillan ; 1986 ) .
17 It considers their employment status at the time of the survey , the likelihood of being in or about to start work according to the IT subject studied , the type of institution attended and other key influences .
18 It is not the first time he has taken his countrymen and women to task for what he considers their cultural failings .
19 The group considers which aspect of the issue they feel is most important ( for example the guidance in the Bible , unity , tradition , etc . ) .
20 In politics outside the magnate class one has the same picture : when one considers which boroughs were represented in fifteenth-century parliaments , one is struck by the contrasting figures from the North and the South : in Wiltshire there were sixteen boroughs and in Sussex twelve ( if one includes the three Cinque Ports which fell within the shire ) , whereas the figures for the three northern shires of Yorkshire , Northumberland and Lancashire were three , one and none respectively .
21 The report considers which level of geographical unit is most suited to analysing regional problems in the Community from the three levels defined in the mid-1970s and subsumed under the French acronym , NUTS levels I , II and III .
22 But the real obstacle to any formal union of the centre and right opposition parties is that each of them is formed around the personality and ambitions of an individual politician who considers himself to be papabile or presidentiable .
23 The question whether a man who considers himself wronged has a claim which he can make good will depend on the answer to the question : Is there a writ to meet his case or , if there is not one , can one be framed which the King 's Courts will hold good ?
24 It is clear from his critical writings that , to some extent , he considers himself to be the successor of Kafka and Camus : this influence emerges in his novels , Dans le labyrinthe ( 1959 ) — whose very title evokes Kafka and Borges — and his first work , Un Régicide ( 1949 ; published 1978 ) in which the atmosphere is very tangibly that of the absurd-cum-behaviourist novel ( see Smyth 1983 ) , even if in both cases the metaphysical is subjected to parody .
25 Within this trickle of a song , Morrissey defends his much maligned plagiarism with a comical air of one who considers himself , quite rightly , to be above such charges .
26 For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes .
27 It is understandable : the child considers himself safe in the residential street and is inattentive on the way to school .
28 When working with the patient who considers himself a consistent failure in a particular area of his life , part of that treatment may well involve regressing him to the time of one of these earlier successes .
29 He considers himself the victim of a plot , regards the asylum as Hades , and refuses to accept that he is mad .
30 He considers himself an expert on the subject now and confirms that what Horatia says is entirely possible . "
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