Example sentences of "[adv] regarded as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restraint covenants agreed to in respect of the merged firm will be unenforceable unless some part of the business can be properly regarded as continuing the merged practice and entitled to protection . |
| 2 | However , as the sole candidate and with the very high rate of abstention ( only 28.28 per cent of voters turned out ) , his presidency had been widely regarded as lacking in legitimacy . |
| 3 | Up to this time many astronomers had regarded Venus as the Earth 's twin , and that beneath the clouds , which were widely regarded as consisting of water , there were oceans and perhaps vegetation and animals . |
| 4 | Britain is widely regarded as having a political system which scores high on political institutionalization and low on personal leadership . |
| 5 | He was widely regarded as having one of the most brilliant minds in the Royal Navy . |
| 6 | His intervention , although criticized by Slovak leaders , was widely regarded as having facilitated a resolution of the devolution issue . |
| 7 | Pérez de Cuéllar 's report was widely regarded as having consequences advantageous to Morocco . |
| 8 | Within the rock discourse of the time , progressive rock was widely regarded as associated with , indeed as the music of , the ‘ counterculture ’ . |
| 9 | A separate document also released on June 7 , on NATO 's " core security functions " , was widely regarded as representing the United States perspective , and reiterated that " the security of North America is permanently tied to the security of Europe " . |
| 10 | In Byelorussia , which was widely regarded as retaining one of the most conservative republican leaderships , it had been decided to allocate a quota of reserved Supreme Soviet seats for official organizations ( a practice applied in the March 1989 elections to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies but since labelled undemocratic and abandoned for national elections — see p. 36978 ) . |
| 11 | This was widely regarded as indicating a warmer attitude towards NATO , in which France 's position had been ambiguous since it withdrew from its integrated military structure in 1966 . |
| 12 | It was widely regarded as presaging a new era of more co-operative meetings between the leaders of the two governments . |
| 13 | The composition of the new Cabinet , however , was widely regarded as strengthening the position of Mchangama , leader of the MWANGAZA party and son-in-law of the President . |
| 14 | These seven , led by Walter Sisulu , had since their release addressed major pro-ANC rallies inside South Africa , acting as if the organization were no longer banned , and were widely regarded as constituting an effective " internal ANC leadership " , although the organization denied the existence of differences of approach . |
| 15 | A small proportion ( about 20 ) of the 660 people living in the hospital in 1984 were widely regarded as presenting such serious challenges that it had been planned to move them to new sub-regional institutions rather than community services . |
| 16 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |
| 17 | The words ‘ I ask you , son , to care for the lands which will come to you with your usual diligence and look after them so that they may come to your sons ’ , although they do not sufficiently express a trust but advice rather than obligation to leave the lands , are none the less regarded as having the force of a trust in favour of the grandsons after the death of their father . |
| 18 | I agree with Sir Frederick Pollock 's note on the case of De La Bere v. Pearson , Ltd. when he wrote in Pollock on Contracts ( 13th ed. ) , 140 ( n. 31 ) that ‘ the cause of action is better regarded as arising from default in the performance of a voluntary undertaking independent of contract . ’ |
| 19 | He was n't highly regarded as having senior management potential . |
| 20 | Acceptance of an authority can be an act of identification with a group because it can be naturally regarded as expressing trust in the person or institution in authority and a willingness to share the fortunes of the group which are to a large extent determined by the authority . |
| 21 | Well Loaded Much talked-about guitar rockers , generally regarded as destined for the bigger stadia of life , unless they self-destruct en route . |
| 22 | For example , documentation standards in the market have been criticised , and are generally regarded as falling well behind standards in the US CP and ECP markets . |
| 23 | Described by Economy Minister Zelia Cardoso de Mello as a " deepening " of the government 's economic policies , the announcement of the plan , issued by presidential decree on Jan. 31 , was generally regarded as marking the failure of the anti-inflation measures introduced in March 1990 by President Fernando Collor de Mello [ see pp. 37312-13 ] and it was opposed by businessmen , bankers and trade union leaders alike . |
| 24 | Iraq was for some years generally regarded as possessing air superiority , although this was not translated into any particular battlefield advantage . |
| 25 | It may take drastic discontinuities , of the kind described above , to highlight the fact that the environment over a period must be taken into account before one can attempt to predict the course of personality development , yet children reared under normal home circumstances are generally regarded as remaining under such constant environmental conditions that this consideration does not hold . |
| 26 | Neanderthals possessed bigger brains than we do ; the Cro-Magnons , generally regarded as having wiped out the Neanderthal precursors , were similarly large-brained . |
| 27 | ( Like tragedy , its " sublime " sister art , the " Old " ( Aristophanic ) Comedy of classical Athens is generally regarded as having originated in the worship of Dionysus . |
| 28 | It has won greater favour in the US than in Britain where it is generally regarded as conceding too much to a particular , and somewhat incoherent , philosophical system . |
| 29 | In principle Contact users had access to a wide range of structured ‘ rehabilitative ’ activities generally regarded as heightening independence and self-help . |
| 30 | The reason why this specific condition is not regarded as repeated is that it is incompatible with the condition to which the substitution is subject : the substitutes are to be admitted if no children are born to the testator or if any born die before puberty , whereas the manumission is subject to the condition that there are children who are still alive at puberty . |