Example sentences of "[noun pl] regard [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granted that words have a certain elasticity of meaning , the general rule remains that the judges regard themselves as bound by the words of a statute when these words clearly govern the situation before the court . |
| 2 | The metaphor is apt , as Palestinians regard themselves as engaging in a process of giving birth to their independent Palestinian state . |
| 3 | I think the important thing to remember there is that erm we regard ourselves as having and people who work in universities regard themselves as having a special obligation and indeed to use their own special skills in order indeed to define the needs of society in their own special field and then to do what they can to satisfy . |
| 4 | Some two-thirds of all temporary workers regard themselves as having seasonal , temporary or casual jobs and only one third as having fixed contract jobs , but with substantial differences between industries and occupations . |
| 5 | The Kurds regard themselves as a separate race of people from the rest of Iraq and wish to join with the Kurds of Turkey and make a new Kurdish state . |
| 6 | If teachers regard themselves as professionally accountable to themselves and their colleagues then they have accepted a commitment to the maintenance and improvement of their practice . |
| 7 | But 28% do feel working mothers regard themselves as superior which suggest that some of us might have got carried away with out own importance . |
| 8 | Members of most non-Western societies regard themselves as the most superior form of being , in possession of the most desirable qualities . |
| 9 | At other times cultural groups regard themselves in a superior relationship to other cultures . |
| 10 | The organizing theme of the book is distilled in chapter ten , where I delineate exactly why black sportsmen regard themselves as at a possible disadvantage in sport , how they perceive blackness as an impediment and , most crucially , how they react to it . |
| 11 | Some merely regard their function as a necessary official procedure best conducted with the least possible fuss and difficulty , while others regard themselves as the only impartial authority capable of investigating a sequence of events involving fatality no matter how technically complicated it might be . |