Example sentences of "be treated as the " in BNC.

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1 Practices such as witchcraft are treated as the outcome of structural features , filtered through the unconscious , and manifested in uncontrolled expressions of fear , guilt or frustration .
2 Thus the shareholders in the company are treated as the electorate , and the directors are regarded as the legislature .
3 In each node of the bottom layer , the inputs are treated as the address of a cell .
4 An alternative possibility is that these three versions of a word are treated as the same ( which would happen if the visual word-recognition system operates at a relatively abstract level ) .
5 The SFA requirements relating to notifications , consents or instructions to or from indirect customers who are treated as the firm 's customers ( see page 25 above ) , and customer agreements with them , can be discharged by reference to the intermediary ; this , however , does not apply where the intermediary acts for only one indirect customer .
6 There is no doubt that instead of treating the sea as the giver of life to mankind , as it certainly is , it has for far too long been treated as the world 's sewer .
7 The ‘ rule of thirds ’ has been treated as the standard method of division , but other arrangements were sometimes made which might reflect the contractor 's view of the likely profits to be won from a particular campaign .
8 At nineteen she is the youngest of four children and has always been treated as the " little one " .
9 The Venetian ambassador complained that though the republic had always been treated as the equal of the kingdoms of Europe he had been offered a place which did not fully reflect this .
10 It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee .
11 For instance , witness Steven Wells fulminating in the NME : ‘ Pop can be treated as the vile pus that drips from sores of a cancerous body politic . ’
12 Bodies or groups of human beings may have legally recognized rights and duties , which can not be treated as the rights and duties of the members .
13 Neither should the budget be treated as the little tin god that stifles all thought , initiative and development .
14 Parental responsibility should be treated as the greatest and most important undertaking of human life , albeit the one potentially holding out the promise of the greatest happiness .
15 P appealed to the High Court , contending that no part of his interest ‘ came to an end ’ within para 4(2) ; he had merely disposed of shares in Q. Similarly , para 4(2) was not deemed to operate by virtue of para 4(1) , which provided that a disposal of an interest in possession of any property was not a transfer of value , but should be treated as the coming to the end of an interest in possession , bringing into play para 4(2) .
16 Income would normally be treated as the recipient 's for tax purposes unless , that is , the donor has the right to get the asset back in the future or retains some control over it — in which case the donor would be liable for any tax .
17 He also says that ‘ the decoding of sentence meaning should be treated as the end point of development ’ as though the universal superiority of the essayist technique had been firmly established .
18 Instead of being perceived simply as agents of the shareholders the board of directors came to be viewed as an organ of the company which for many purposes could be treated as the company .
19 Its conception of the company as a real person or living organism suggested that the corporate managers could be treated as the brain of the organism formulating the policy of the company and directing its implementation by corporate executives .
20 Which point of speaker-change , among the many , could be treated as the end of one chunk of the conversation ?
21 By agreement between the foster mother and the local authority the hearing of the substantive application for judicial review commenced on 11 December 1991 was to be treated as the hearing of the applications under section 10(9) of the Act of 1989 , and the foster mother agreed to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review if leave were granted .
22 Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings .
23 ‘ Where an unconstitutional change of regime takes place in a recognised state , governments of other states must necessarily consider what dealings , if any , they should have with the new regime , and whether and to what extent it qualifies to be treated as the government of the state concerned .
24 Accordingly , if the interim government is to be treated as the Government of Somalia , it must be able to show that it is exercising administrative control over the territory of the Republic .
25 If such a case involved no unlawful means their ‘ purpose ’ would be treated as the advancement of their own self-interest or , to put it another way , their object in removing C from the market would be legitimate .
26 Major changes in the way we conceptualize Nature certainly took place at this time , but historians now suspect that the emergence of Darwin 's theory should not be treated as the only watershed dividing the old way of thinking from the new .
27 If revaluation of his security is necessary , resulting in a greater shortfall , he is to be treated as the creditors referred to in the previous paragraph .
28 In so far as insolvency law is committed to the principle that property within the apparent ownership of the company should be treated as the company 's in the event of its insolvent liquidation , permitting party autonomy to effect automatic crystallisation undermines this policy .
29 The species is presumed to be so homogeneous that every individual can be treated as the equivalent of every other .
30 The ‘ offer ’ probability may be treated as the product of ( i ) the probability that a vacancy will come to the individual 's notice and ( ii ) the probability that the individual , if available , will be ‘ offered ’ the job .
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