Example sentences of "regard as [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not explore the range of shapes pupils will accept or regard as examples of a shape . |
| 2 | A leaked World Bank internal report shows that more than one-third of Bank-funded projects completed in 1991 were regarded as failures by the Bank 's own staff . |
| 3 | The implication of this is that many mergers can be regarded as failures in the sense that they do not attain the gains in efficiency claimed as their justification . |
| 4 | Carbohydrates come in a variety of different forms , all of which are best regarded as sources of energy . |
| 5 | However , since explanations can be regarded as responses to explicit or implicit questions , the research into the pragmatics of questioning in the classroom provides hints about the pragmatics of explanation in the classroom . |
| 6 | When they first came into existence in the late 1970s , the proportion of advanced work which they offered and , therefore their claim truly to be regarded as institutions of higher education , depended on their inheritances from their previous colleges . |
| 7 | After all , the impulsive waves considered by Khan and Penrose may be regarded as idealizations of such waves . |
| 8 | The women began increasingly to be regarded as possessions of their families . |
| 9 | These sentences contrast grammatically in terms of phrase structure , and could not , in any logical sense , be regarded as paraphrases of one another . |
| 10 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 11 | The wetlands , long regarded as wastes by generations of farmers , have been replaced by a harvest which fits the dictionary definition of ‘ waste ’ in every sense . |
| 12 | However , the courts have frequently recognised that businessmen do not share the lawyer 's desire for certainty , and that insistence that all terms be precisely agreed would prevent many business agreements being regarded as contracts at all . |
| 13 | Shiels or shields are cottages , direct from the Anglo-Saxon , so the town of Galashiels may be regarded as cottages by a stream , or as scattered cottages . |
| 14 | The rates themselves can usefully be regarded as percentages of either factory standard price per unit or average selling price per unit . |
| 15 | The rates themselves can usefully be regarded as percentages of either factory standard price per unit or average selling price per unit . |
| 16 | And this , in turn , would seem to justify Professor Gaddis 's conclusion that the assumption was that such governments , whether in Western Europe or Japan , and whether or not they came to power by legal or illegal means , could only be regarded as instruments of the Kremlin and hence not truly independent . |
| 17 | School meals and milk as well as education maintenance allowances increasingly came to be regarded as complements to a universal scheme of family allowances by its advocates rather than alternatives as had been argued , for example , at the Trades Union Congress in 1930 . |
| 18 | This reflects the fact that several kinds of considerations may lead to different and incompatible policies all of which are commonly regarded as policies of neutrality , because all of them demonstrate an even-handed treatment of the parties either by not helping one more than the other , or by not helping one more than the other to take special measures to improve his position in the conflict , and so on . |
| 19 | The reserve , the indifference and the blasé outlook which urbanites manifest in their relationships may thus be regarded as devices for immunizing themselves against the personal claims and expectations of others . |
| 20 | Consequently in the western world diamonds were at first not regarded as objects of beauty — other stones such as emeralds and red garnets were preferred . |
| 21 | In the New Testament those who do not enjoy salvation in Christ are regarded as slaves of sin ( John 8:34 ; Rom. 7:14 ) . |
| 22 | Since the tomato , being a member of the Solanaceae tribe which includes also the poisonous nightshades , was long regarded as a dangerous if not actually deadly fruit ( the potato and the aubergine , also of the Solanaceae family , have in their time suffered from the same associations ) presumably the mixture of vinegar and spices used in the early sauces were regarded as safety-devices against the possibly toxic effects of the fruit itself . |
| 23 | In some debates it appears that traditional farming is regarded as systems of high input of fertilisers and pesticides which started in the 1950 's and are still progressing and developing today . |
| 24 | If , however , Morgan v. Palmer and Steele v. Williams are properly to be regarded as cases of extortion colore officii the same must be true of Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , which followed them . |
| 25 | The English courts have however held that films , tapes and video recordings are not to be regarded as documents for the purpose of the ‘ best evidence ’ rule , since ‘ they are by their nature reliable ’ and ‘ the old rule is limited and confined to written documents ( Kajala v Noble [ 1982 ] 75 Cr.App.R.149 ) . |
| 26 | The rights of presentation to livings in the Church of England , known as advowsons , which are often in the hands of laymen , are also regarded as interests in land . |
| 27 | Following the Puritan days of the Reformation , music , dancing and theatre were all regarded as inspirations of the devil . |
| 28 | These payments will not be regarded as payments for hire or reward ( normally excluded under the policy ) , if : |
| 29 | These payments will not be regarded as payments for hire or reward ( normally excluded under the policy ) , if : |
| 30 | These payments will not be regarded as payments for hire or reward ( normally excluded under the policy ) , if : |