Example sentences of "regard [pron] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all small creatures are pests , some are predatory on the pests themselves , and we should regard them as friends . |
| 2 | At various times they have regarded them as insectivores , although they do not eat insects ; as bats , although their gliding membranes bear no resemblance to the wings of a bat ; as primates , because of the construction of their middle ear . |
| 3 | ‘ Right from the beginning my fellow directors have regarded me as part of the team and have been tremendously supportive . ’ |
| 4 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 5 | So far from treating the problems of the inner city as local difficulties which a bit of capitalist enterprise could clear up , it regarded them as evidence of systemic failure . |
| 6 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 7 | There is no evidence that the court circle in East Anglia , including those elements most closely identified with the queen , was inimical to Gloucester , or that the duke regarded them as rivals for power in the region . |
| 8 | There is no evidence that the court circle in East Anglia , including those elements most closely identified with the queen , was inimical to Gloucester , or that the duke regarded them as rivals for power in the region . |
| 9 | The Hasidim idealised them , regarded them as intermediaries between God and his world . |
| 10 | In the first months of 1945 , the German people regarded itself as Hitler 's gain victim . |
| 11 | Lawrence had spent so long at Charlton Athletic that people regarded him as part of the fittings . |
| 12 | Specifically it was , he regarded it as kind of transmuted libido . |
| 13 | In a few generations , there was a new class of Britons who regarded themselves as part of the Roman empire and ‘ Roman ’ in a broad sense . |
| 14 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 15 | All Russian attempts to penetrate the Teleuts ' territories were opposed , since they regarded themselves as overlords in the northern Altai . |
| 16 | It is indeed the case that both of these " new branches " professed an orthodox Arminian theology and regarded themselves as movements within rather than against the Church of England . |
| 17 | There was a time when most Scots regarded themselves as members of one or other of the main Christian denominations . |
| 18 | They no longer regarded themselves as objects of charity and resented being so regarded by the hearing world . |
| 19 | According to one study , published in 1971 , only 5 per cent of career foreign service officers in the State Department regarded themselves as Republicans . |
| 20 | I am certain Lorentz and Fitzgerald regarded themselves as realists , interpreting the experiment on the speed of light in terms of Newtonian ideas of absolute space and absolute time . |
| 21 | These wild Gaelic-speaking men may have once lived in bothies , but when in Brighton they regarded themselves as raiders in a strange and hostile land . |
| 22 | Also , I was always under the impression that the likes of Constable , whilst in full knowledge that they were at the top of their profession , regarded themselves as craftsmen . |
| 23 | I hasten to qualify this observation in that the cutter crews in no way regarded themselves as amateurs . |
| 24 | Some of the old guard ashore still regarded us as playboys though , and resented the money that was being spent on the new boats and their equipment . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher , however , has remained a mobilizer ; she clearly regards herself as Heath plus , providing greater political will and persistence . |
| 26 | So we could perhaps make a case for offering curatorial protection to artefactual software by regarding it as part of the contextual and functional extension of hardware without which technical history would be incomplete . |
| 27 | Regarding themselves as kingmakers , Godwine and his sons strove repeatedly to maintain an ‘ English ’ identity , free both of too much Danish interruption and of the new factor in political life , the influence of the Duchy of Normandy . |
| 28 | In addition , sections 36–40 detail principles of good social work practice like client participation in decisions and long-term planning to underline the professional orientation of the Act and to prevent clients from regarding themselves as victims of bureaucratic decisions ( Habermann and Tries , 1990 ) . |
| 29 | The drafter should regard it as part of his/her job to advise the business client on the adoption of proper procedures . |
| 30 | These are er , books which these , these are books which do not directly concern , therapeutic applications of psychoanalysis , and as a result , many psychoanalysts who have been very fervent in projecting a kind of medical image for psychoanalysis , have tended to regard them as diversions at best , and at worst as , rather er regrettable eccentricities on the part of Freud . |