Example sentences of "regarded as [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They are regarded as belonging to an earlier age of superstition and ignorance .
2 ‘ 5(1) Property shall be regarded as belonging to any person having possession or control of it , or having in it any proprietary right or interest ( not being an equitable interest arising only from an agreement to transfer or grant an interest ) . …
3 ‘ But whether , in the ordinary case to which section 5 of the Theft Act 1968 does not apply , goods are to be regarded as belonging to another is a question to which the criminal law offers no answer and which can only be answered by reference to civil law principles .
4 It is therefore to be expected that where an animal had been classified as ferae naturae at common law it will be regarded as belonging to a dangerous species under the Act ( e.g .
5 The goods will therefore be regarded as belonging to the original owner unless one of the exceptions applies .
6 By s.5(1) of the Theft Act 1968 : [ p ] roperty shall be regarded as belonging to any person having possession or control of it , or having in it any proprietary right or interest ( not being an equitable interest arising only from an agreement to transfer or grant an intent ) .
7 Language has always been regarded as belonging among these secondary categories .
8 The teachers ' authority is not to be regarded as delegated by the parent .
9 They are not intended to confine police investigation of crime to conduct which might be regarded as sporting to those under investigation .
10 ( 2 ) But on a sale by auction or by competitive tender the buyer is not in any circumstances to be regarded as dealing as consumer .
11 Theories were developed that might be regarded as dealing with such issues only in the field of conflict .
12 The opposition responded with calls for the conference to be chaired by the Most Rev. Monsengwo Pasinya , president of the Roman Catholic Bishops ' Conference and archbishop of Kisangani , in place of Isaac Kalonji Mutambaye , regarded as discredited by his loyalty to Mobutu .
13 An appeal may establish a formal precedent which an agency might find undesirable , since standard setting is then taken out of its hands by people regarded as possessed of less expertise and possibly differing interests .
14 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially .
15 Thus , in the Report for the year 1980–81 , the CDA commented that the industrial co-operative was still often regarded as characterised by them .
16 It has to succeed , not in fair competition , but in the face of ignorance and misunderstanding : ignorance , because whereas professional knowledge and informed advice on the incorporation and conduct of conventionally organised companies are generally available , whereas education and training relating to them are commonplace , this is not true for co-operatives ; misunderstanding , because the industrial co-operative sector is still often regarded as characterised by the three well-known rescue cases … and hence as supposing itself to be exempted from test by commercial criteria and the rigours of the market economy .
17 That rate of : wage inflation which can be attributed solely to union militancy can be regarded as resulting from the power struggle between unions and employers for a bigger share of the national ‘ cake ’ and between the unions themselves for higher places in the wages ‘ league table ’ .
18 It is also what is involved when modern descriptions of the moon 's trajectory are retained and observation statements referring to the fact that the moon is much larger when it is near the horizon than when it is high in the sky are regarded as resulting from an illusion , even though the cause of the illusion is not well understood .
19 But much of it has been regarded as stemming from forces eager to interfere with and undermine the free economy , shifting the locus of decision from the market place and into the political arena .
20 This led to calls for the reassertion of the values and practices of the Tokugawa period , or rather of those that the ruling élite regarded as according to the needs of post-1868 Japan .
21 Where any investor is part of a larger organisation , the Panel should be consulted to establish which other parts of the organisation will also be regarded as acting in concert .
22 Even where the only ‘ standard ’ terms of the seller are those in the exemption clause itself , still a buyer whose contract includes that exemption clause could well be regarded as buying on the seller 's ‘ written standard terms of business . ’
23 Success for the normal children ranged from 82 per cent to 100 per cent , and Fenn suggests that , as a rule of thumb , a child who fails the test should be regarded as functioning below the level of the normal 4- to 5-year-old .
24 At worst , it was regarded as consisting of sanctimonious , middle-class persons who mouthed government cliches about ‘ power-sharing ’ and said that they would be equally satisfied to live under London or Dublin .
25 If samples are scored for aneuploidy , a significant chromosome count identifying aneuploidy is regarded as consisting of minimally two mitotic cells with the same count .
26 Up to this time many astronomers had regarded Venus as the Earth 's twin , and that beneath the clouds , which were widely regarded as consisting of water , there were oceans and perhaps vegetation and animals .
27 If your employer agrees to your early departure , you will still be regarded as dismissed in law if the agreement is simply , in effect , to bring forward your dismissal date or if it is agreed that you need not actually work during the remainder of your notice period .
28 Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’
29 Scaevola replies that , unless the testator is shown to have had other intentions , liability for maintenance is regarded as attaching to acquisition of the sum of money .
30 ( 2 ) The cases in which a pecuniary advantage within the meaning of this section is to be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where — … ( c ) he is given the opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration in an office or employment …
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