Example sentences of "regard [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Bedford Park is regarded as the first Garden Suburb in England , and thus has an international importance , while Shaw is one of the most important architects of the Victorian period , best known as the designer of the old New Scotland Yard building on the London Embankment . |
2 | Tyrothricin can reasonably be regarded as the first antibiotic to be established as a therapeutic substance . |
3 | This contribution to the accumulating ‘ goodness ’ may be regarded as the first which is not due to the ruthless survival laws which belong to the second period of this book . |
4 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
5 | The German naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel ( 1834–1919 ) is generally regarded as the first to put forward the idea that these changes in the embryo retrace our evolutionary history . |
6 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
7 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |
8 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
9 | And you , my dear Mary , respected though your name is — you are insufficiently regarded as the first of that invaluable breed , preceeding them by at least one whole generation ! |
10 | The move was widely regarded as the first step towards full normalization of diplomatic relations , which had been suspended after the communist victory in the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
11 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
12 | Ibrahim was widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Maldives , after his brother-in-law , President Gayoom . |
13 | You may be able to claim constructive dismissal even if the incident which directly leads to your departure is minor , if it can be regarded as the last straw . |
14 | Nor can the stability argument be regarded as the last word , as we do not know whether general relativity itself will be valid right up to the space-time singularity . |
15 | Whether the bloom shape is the ultimate , only time will tell , for there have been other occasions in the development of the rose when a new type has been regarded as the last word . |
16 | This may be regarded as the last fling of this relationship . |
17 | Regarded as the third Saatchi brother when he was finance director of their advertising group , Martin Sorrell decided to branch out on his own in 1985 . |
18 | The TV is regarded as the next generation of home sets , with a flat screen that can be hung on the wall like a picture . |
19 | Turkey is a market that has never quite fulfilled its potential — according to Nelson 's Paul Berry , ‘ Turkey has been regarded as the next Greece for more than 10 years ’ . |
20 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
21 | He was a champion of 19th century book illustration , which he regarded as the last relatively unexplored corner of the English artistic tradition . |
22 | Accordingly , it is necessary to define what should be considered as bribery in the context of the period , rather than as it might be regarded in the twentieth century . |
23 | He was deposed by what the Western Church regards as the 8th Ecumenical Council . |
24 | The receivers were then discharged , as regards the first five plaintiffs on 19 December 1986 , as regards to the sixth and seventh plaintiffs on 11 February 1987 . |
25 | With regard to the first question , time will tell ; my own experience is that knowledge of D can open the door to the study of several physical processes involving the fractal structure . |
26 | With regard to the first , it was often argued that Afro-Caribbean family and child-rearing patterns harmed the intellectual and educational development of black children , but the misleading assumptions about these patterns and consequences have now been effectively contested ( Cross , 1978 ; Reeves and Chevannes , 1983 ) . |
27 | With regard to the first question , the Court was evenly divided 4–4 and for that reason affirmed the judgement of the Lower Courts which had accepted the misappropriation doctrine . |
28 | Advisory literature indicates that summaries and illustrations of student evaluation are an important source of evidence with regard to the first criterion . |
29 | In regard to the first , for example — that kasabat kadis did not normally enter or re-enter the medrese stream-two caveats must be entered , the first of which is that one must explicitly exclude two areas in which movement between kadiliks and medreses was not uncommon : first , the kadiliks and medreses below the level at which the hierarchy began to operate , whose holders received perhaps five , ten or fifteen akce a day ; and second , those at the top of the hierarchy , since it was not uncommon for holders of mevleviyet kadiliks to go back to medrese teaching as a form of either temporary or permanent retirement from service as a kadi or a kazasker . |
30 | With regard to the first part of the question , ‘ league tables ’ of the most taxed countries is a common response . |