Example sentences of "regard [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Known as the champagne tea and highly regarded for afternoon drinking .
2 Well regarded for its colour-illustrated articles by noted authors , many from the museum field , the journal had a devoted following of around 10,000 subscribers , but needed a cash infusion to get out of the red .
3 ( 4 ) Where the arrangements for the admission of pupils to a school maintained by a local education authority provide for applications for admission to be made to , or to a person acting on behalf of , the governors of the school , a parent who makes such an application shall be regarded for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above as having expressed a preference for that school in accordance with arrangements made under subsection ( 1 ) above .
4 None the less , he proved to be a left-hand bat of the highest possible calibre , and a character much respected as well as affectionately regarded for what John Arlott called his ‘ pin-toed toddle ’ .
5 Similarly , if debts due to the company are subject to a floating charge , the interest of the floating charge holder will be subject to any lien or set off that the company creates with respect to the charged assets prior to crystallisation , for a floating charge is not regarded for this purpose as an immediate assignment of the chose in action , it becomes such only on crystallisation .
6 Peony preferred to be regarded for herself and not just as a stamp of her mother 's , for her mother was beautiful , but Peony knew that although she did look the pattern of her mother , she had not her beauty or her presence .
7 Almost all grants received are regarded for tax purposes as reducing expenses incurred , or reducing the cost of the development in question for the purposes of calculating capital allowances .
8 It is quoted in full : 6 Private residence exception : separated couples Where a married couple separate or are divorced and one partner ceases to occupy the matrimonial home and subsequently as part of a financial settlement disposes of the home , or an interest in it , to the other partner the home may be regarded for the purposes of Sections [ 222 to 224 of TCGA 1992 ] 101 to 103 as continuing to be a residence of the transferring partner from the date his or her occupation ceases until the date of transfer , provided that it has throughout this period been the other partner 's only or main residence .
9 Churchill 's personal popularity had been vouched for invariably by above 75% of the respondents , and the government , though poorly regarded during the setbacks to British arms in 1942 , after the battle of El Alamein was never below 70% .
10 In effect , this occurs by what we can regard as a self-timing of the system .
11 In the event , the deal which has emerged in Taif has justified the general 's fears of what he would regard as a sell-out of the Maronite cause .
12 Against these powerful Heathite figures , there were indeed very few colleagues whom the Prime Minister could safely regard as ‘ one of us ’ .
13 Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal .
14 The terrorist is normally a person who , as such , risks death either by his own weapons or in the commission of his act , and is at least as likely to court what he might regard as a martyr 's or patriot 's death as to be deterred by it .
15 Now those critics have been joined by what entrenched IRFU committeemen may regard as the Enemy Within .
16 She was embarking on what she would always regard as the pleasantest years of her life .
17 He is using a human child as research material , removing him from what everybody — our readers — must regard as a normal human life .
18 If a patient dismisses his doctor , the criminal law would not lightly regard as manslaughter the act of a doctor who respected the wishes of a dying or aged patient .
19 Much may hinge upon points that the typical executive might understandably regard as irritating technicalities .
20 What do you regard as your particular strengths ?
21 What do you regard as your particular weaknesses ?
22 Others sink in what outsiders might regard as a storm in a teacup .
23 It must also be remembered that the working life of what we might regard as identical batteries tends to vary .
24 Remembering that the elderly often become quite anxious and upset at the prospect of any change or disturbance of their normal routine , however pleasing the end-result promises to be , you will need to take anything they may regard as an ‘ upheaval ’ very slowly .
25 ‘ 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 .
26 Yet it is arguable that the child 's first experiments with what adults would regard as linguistic deceit are on a causal and behavioural par with the bird 's fraudulent warning cry .
27 Finally , it is possible to reverse the flow of the argument and consider whether the attention paid to what some will regard as mere wrecks of humanity , quite apart from the treatment of human corpses , is not exaggeratedly sentimental .
28 Nevertheless , in what most people would regard as an obvious case of rape , the victims had to suffer a traumatic experience in court and have their humiliating experiences reported to millions .
29 To say what it ought to be would be to express attitudes of his own , which he does not regard as the task of the kind of philosopher like himself who is , in his professional work , trying to understand ethical discussion rather than to participate in it .
30 Er erm I 'm sorry it is the question now that I 'm going to come to was going back to organisation how often does the board meet ? and who does it regard as ?
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