Example sentences of "regard as a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is hard to see why reasonable notice should be an additional requirement where the document concerned is one which a reasonable man would regard as a legal document , to be read carefully for its terms and conditions .
2 One of the barriers to what the Government would regard as a successful sale is the amount of regulation covering coal mining activities .
3 He is using a human child as research material , removing him from what everybody — our readers — must regard as a normal human life .
4 ‘ He 's what I would regard as a sensible Scot someone who does n't wear Scotland on every part of his clothing , but he 's deeply interested in the Scottish Institute in terms of its members .
5 The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference .
6 Whatever some observers regarded as a blundering approach was a skilful way of navigating the dilemmas confronting him .
7 A novel like The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , for instance , could be regarded as a latter-day Middlemarch , with Meg rising up and breaking free as Dorothea does , and it is possible to detect the influence of Wilson 's favourite writer , Dickens , in works as dissimilar as Anglo-Saxon Attitudes and No Laughing Matter .
8 Although induced polymorphic VT/VF is often regarded as a non-specific response in patients with syncope or recent myocardial infarction , there is some evidence that , in cardiac arrest survivors , polymorphic VT/VF may be a valid endpoint by which to evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic interventions .
9 Yet despite this decision — always regarded as a classic illustration of the common-law presumption in favour of freedom of assembly — the law has developed to the point where we can say with reasonable assurance that the residue of which Dicey was so proud has narrowed to the point of extinction .
10 She was regarded as a pleasant , generous , kind child .
11 Durham was a regular attender at Mr Kendal 's church and he was regarded as a strong reliable man whose word could be trusted .
12 But the dollar was regarded as a strong currency and was therefore popular in international trade .
13 Her life had not been particularly adventurous and at school , where her friend Rosie Fortinbras courted adventure , she had been regarded as a dull girl and a plodding worker .
14 The female P. pulcherimus is often regarded as a separate species to the male , being quite different in markings .
15 However , it was emphasized that apart from that situation , each quarry would be regarded as a separate unit .
16 Each Phoenix King 's reign is regarded as a separate historical epoch .
17 is something that might not have been anticipated : the principle finding concerning trends in class mobility since 1972 can stand unchanged even when in … 1983 … unemployment is regarded as a separate mobility status .
18 Under a c.i.f. contract which provided ‘ each shipment to be regarded as a separate contract , ’ the sellers had an option whether to send separate shipments or to send all the goods by one shipment .
19 Not the unconscious part of the ego of course which is doing the repression , this is regarded as a separate agency .
20 However where the restraint of trade doctrine applies , for example in contracts of employment , a confidentiality obligation will only be enforced if the information in question can fairly be regarded as a separate part of the employee 's stock of knowledge which a man of ordinary honesty and intelligence would recognise to be the property of his employer and not his own to do what he likes with .
21 A general principle in the employment field was laid down in Printers and Finishers Ltd v Holloway [ 1964 ] 3 All ER 731 where Cross J said that employees are prohibited from using information which " can fairly be regarded as a separate part of the employee 's stock of knowledge which a man of ordinary honesty and intelligence would recognise to be the property of his old employer and not his own to do as he likes with " .
22 In the United Sterling case the basis for dismissing the motion was that there was no evidence that the defendant was given any special information which he ought to have regarded as a separate part of his stock of knowledge which an honest employee would have recognised as property of the employer .
23 Duration can be regarded as a first-order measure of interest rate risk : it measures the slope of the present-value profile .
24 It should be regarded as a non-secure , learning environment only , and should not have live data entered into it except for training purposes .
25 A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player .
26 Too often , however , this area of the subject is regarded as a mysterious world where incomprehensible things are done with expensive equipment .
27 If , however , liquidity were regarded as a scarce commodity , then the bond price would fall as the degree of liquidity rose , in which case the coefficient on the liquidity measure would be negative .
28 Would CPRW 's objectives , as stated above , be more likely to be achieved if Wales was regarded as a distinct ‘ zone ’ ( or region ) under the Agri-Environment Regulation ?
29 A collection of TEI headers can also be regarded as a distinct document , and an auxiliary dtd is provided to support interchange of headers alone , for example between libraries or archives .
30 In what was widely regarded as a defiant challenge to President Mobutu Sese Seko , on Aug. 15 delegates to the national conference elected as Prime Minister Etienne Tshisekedi , leader of the opposition Democratic Union for Social Progress ( UDPS ) .
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