Example sentences of "regarded as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the whole they are best regarded as expressing a desire to maintain and demonstrate right relations between God , man and his neighbour . |
| 2 | Yet on the basis of the facts available to him Andrewes could be regarded as taking a compassionate line in agreeing to the dissolution of a marriage which was intolerable to both husband and wife and had not been consummated . |
| 3 | Himself a minister from 1964 and an advocate of devaluation , Jenkins contends that " if they [ Wilson and Callaghan ] could get American support for what they wanted to do anyway this could be regarded as serving a British interest and , from the point of view of the 1966 election , even a Labour Party interest " . |
| 4 | In addition , suicide attempts were usually regarded as implying a wish to die and the existence of mental illness , while less acceptable reasons , such as manipulation of others , were infrequently considered . |
| 5 | In a religiously-divided country such as the Netherlands , trade unions had been formed in a period of strong Protestant and Catholic religious revival when a socialist trade union movement was regarded as implying a secular view of society . |
| 6 | Certain colonial powers ( notably Britain ) entered into such agreements with their former colonies which were regarded as forming a ‘ complete assignment of all treaties which , upon construction , were susceptible of devolution , … |
| 7 | According to general relativity , space and time together can be regarded as forming a four-dimensional space called space-time . |
| 8 | Elements which can all appear at the same position within a document are regarded as forming a model class : for example , the class phrase includes all elements which can appear within paragraphs but not spanning them , while the class chunk includes all elements which can not appear within paragraphs ( such as paragraphs , for example ) . |
| 9 | All elements which represent links or associations between one element and another do so using a common set of attributes , and are thus regarded as forming the attribute class pointer . |
| 10 | The issue of currency may be regarded as helping the government to finance its expenditure . |
| 11 | The provisions of this Code are not intended to form part of any contract entered into between registrants and third parties unless expressly incorporated into such contract and should not be regarded as creating a collateral contract between registrants and third parties . |
| 12 | Unless such disclosure is regarded as defining the respective rights and duties of the parties ab initio61 it is unlikely to be effective as a means of avoiding liability for breach of duty . |
| 13 | The RIBA had produced a standard form of building contract which was widely used and regarded as reflecting the various roles involved . |
| 14 | In the Acts and Epistles Christians are regarded as experiencing the Kingdom as a present reality . |
| 15 | The solution lies in removing from the fourth head the bulk of cases which are charitable in spite of the fact that a particular group is primarily benefited , namely gifts in relief of distress , and thereby making possible a more limited definition of the general sections which can be regarded as benefiting the community and a more sweeping rejection of gifts which though benefiting the community do not do so directly . |
| 16 | As a result , the client should be advised that the use of standard terms should not be regarded as removing the need to adopt other sensible business precautions . |
| 17 | There is nothing to prevent eleven ( or fewer ) Member States entering into a treaty between themselves on matters outside or additional to the existing treaties — indeed the Maastricht Treaty itself , as is well known , envisages less than twelve Member States acting together in the ‘ new ’ areas of Monetary Union and Social policy — and in that sense can hardly be regarded as deepening the Community as previously defined . |
| 18 | To disturb the resting place of any person is regarded as defiling the dead and fortunately , not too many cases are recorded , but one type of archaeological exploration can quite accidentally set off a very volatile and dangerous sequence of events that , on this occasion , cost a man his life and left a whole community in a traumatic turmoil . |
| 19 | The trend line drawn through the peaks of the time-series can be regarded as providing a rough estimate of the economy 's potential output during the period . |
| 20 | Interestingly , the manuscript regarded as providing the best text of the poem , Bibliothèque National fr.19152 , labels the work a " " fable " " in the first line while the other copies read " " fabliaus " " or " " fableaus " " , suggesting that the category of fabliau may not have been so clearly defined and recognized at this early date as it was later to become . |
| 21 | What the preliminary or collateral fact doctrine seeks to do is to distinguish those elements within the bracket which can be regarded as conditioning the power of the tribunal to go on and consider the merits from the merits themselves . |
| 22 | China is regarded as possessing the largest untapped hydro potential of any country and projects to a capacity of over 6,000 MW are currently under construction . |
| 23 | The fact that a wealth tax bore heavily on someone who turned out to lose all his capital would not on an ex ante basis be regarded as indicating a regressive impact , but in terms of measured income ( allowing for the loss ) it might appear that way . |
| 24 | This was widely regarded as indicating a warmer attitude towards NATO , in which France 's position had been ambiguous since it withdrew from its integrated military structure in 1966 . |
| 25 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 26 | But I think the person is not an ingredient in the single thought : he is rather constituted by relations of the thoughts to each other and to the body … the grammatical forms ‘ I think ’ , ‘ you think ’ , and ‘ Mr Jones thinks ’ , are misleading if regarded as indicating an analysis of a single thought . |
| 27 | The agricultural export economy was not regarded as needing a skilled workforce and little priority was given to schooling for the majority of the population . |
| 28 | The elections were also regarded as marking the end of " cohabitation " between President Mário Soares , a former secretary-general of the PS , and the PSD government of Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva . |
| 29 | Described by Economy Minister Zelia Cardoso de Mello as a " deepening " of the government 's economic policies , the announcement of the plan , issued by presidential decree on Jan. 31 , was generally regarded as marking the failure of the anti-inflation measures introduced in March 1990 by President Fernando Collor de Mello [ see pp. 37312-13 ] and it was opposed by businessmen , bankers and trade union leaders alike . |
| 30 | Attempting to get to grips with all the developments in nursing over the past five years is meat enough for any expert , and you will not be regarded as letting the side down just because you are not familiar with all the latest terminology or research in your clinical specialty . |