Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] regarded " in BNC.
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| 1 | Akehurst was early in understanding the importance of administrative and employment law in international organisations and , although others have carried this work forward , his contribution during the 1960s can properly be regarded as pioneering . |
| 2 | Prior to requesting the client to sign such a letter , the firm must be satisfied that the client can properly be regarded as a corporate finance client and place a note on file to this effect ( which is to say that there are no grounds for believing that it would be more appropriate to treat the client as a normal investment business client ) . |
| 3 | This can be achieved by ensuring that we fall within the exemption contained in Section 60(1) of the Companies Act , which states that an offer or invitation is not to be treated as made to the public ‘ if it can properly be regarded , in all the circumstances , as not being calculated to result , directly or indirectly , in the shares or debentures becoming available for subscription or purchase by persons other than those receiving the offer or invitation , or otherwise as being a domestic concern of the persons receiving and making it ’ . |
| 4 | The particular acts found by the judge are we think rather on the borderline of what can properly be regarded as constituting possession , always apart from the consideration of adverse possession . |
| 5 | Sometimes a partner will be recruited on the strength of his professional expertise alone and yet receive a share in the firm 's capital : where such arrangement can properly be regarded as commercial ( and this will usually be the case ) there will be no adverse tax consequences ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 6 | 3 Whether the employer impressed on the employee the confidentiality of the information Thus , though an employer can not prevent the use or disclosure merely by telling the employee that certain information is confidential , the attitude of the employer towards the information provides evidence that may assist in determining whether or not the information can properly be regarded as a business secret . |
| 7 | An important corollary of the present discussion is that circuit components of centimetre dimensions can properly be regarded as discrete until the frequency gets as high as about 300MHz ( recall discussion of this topic near the beginning of section 4.3 ) . |
| 8 | Proof-pulling for instance can perhaps be regarded as a mixed process , requiring both strength and skill . |
| 9 | The other is that the English landscape has never been static but has always been changing , for better or worse Today we are passing through a period which can perhaps be regarded as a disaster . |
| 10 | What evidence there is can only be regarded as peripheral . |
| 11 | In its first year of rail operations based solely on the seven-mile Paignton to Kingswear line , these figures can only be regarded as poor . |
| 12 | For public transport flights it is a very small risk indeed , but it can only be regarded as a prudent action to take out personal life insurance before one voluntarily exposes oneself to the hazards of flight . |
| 13 | In what can only be regarded as the ultimate pilot 's ‘ Jim 'll fix it ’ fantasy come true , he persuaded the RAF to let him go through key parts of the four-year course that ends with a posting to an operational fighter squadron . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly therefore , the results of the 1983 survey show that mass unemployment ‘ has created a serious new risk of what can only be regarded as downward social mobility — and that risk is much greater for men in working class positions , by whatever route they come into them , than it is for others ’ ( p. 17 ) . |
| 15 | He argued that education for understanding can only be regarded as successful to the extent that it makes behavioural outcomes unpredictable . |
| 16 | By strict standards , therefore , the memoirs must contain much that can only be regarded as fiction . |
| 17 | While most students not in receipt of a job offer were making applications and attending interviews at the time they completed the Initial destinations questionnaires , the fact that one third of students would be looking for employment at the end of the courses can only be regarded as a disappointing , and rather unexpected , finding . |
| 18 | I have come to the conclusion that the important points here are that ( i ) since there was no danger at this time in registering a protest , ( ii ) the final payments were made without any qualification , and ( iii ) were followed by a delay until July 31 , 1975 , before the owners put forward their claim , the correct inference to draw , taking an objective view of the facts , is that the action and inaction of the owners can only be regarded as an affirmation of the variation in June , 1973 , of the terms of the original contract by the agreement to pay the additional 10 per cent . |
| 19 | To present such fantasy in your article as though it were fact is unworthy of your newspaper and can only be regarded as malicious mischief-making . |
| 20 | Weber can thus be regarded as the founder of abstract field theory . |
| 21 | A second instance of political change which can scarcely be regarded as minor is the rise and fall of the fascist regimes in Europe . |
| 22 | In a block of premises each tenant can normally be regarded as consenting to the presence of water on the premises if the supply is of the usual character , but not if it is of quite an unusual kind , or defective or dangerous , unless he actually knows of that . |
| 23 | It is only as economic circumstances have eased , for most people at least , that the expressive aspects of relationships have become more prominent , although whether family relationships can ever be regarded as ‘ purely ’ expressive is very questionable ( ibid . |
| 24 | No advantage for one side can ever be regarded as absolutely conclusive . ’ |
| 25 | This approach seems to beg the question as to whether a suicide can ever be regarded as being in their right mind . |
| 26 | A fire , caused by a bolt of lightning at York Minster , can still be regarded as evidence of divine wrath at the appointment of a contentious bishop . |
| 27 | Fords won their appeal , the court holding that a new car which is damaged but then repaired so as to be ‘ as good as new ’ can still be regarded as new . |
| 28 | The court held that a new car which is damaged and then repaired so as to be " as good as new " can still be regarded as " new " . |
| 29 | Both these products are made on a large scale and can still be regarded as commodities . |
| 30 | Furthermore , since the board is dominated by the most senior representatives of management ( this term will be used , except where the context requires otherwise , to refer to the executive directors and senior managers ) it can hardly be regarded as a body providing independent supervision of management on the shareholders ' behalf . |