Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] have been regard " in BNC.

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1 This might have been regarded as making the local manager 's job more straightforward but as one set of pressures was removed others made themselves felt .
2 Had the boys boarded a train to Carlisle and caused damage there , this might have been regarded as too remote .
3 In Beck v Szymonowski [ 1924 ] AC 43 a clause which provided that " the goods delivered shall be deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the contract " unless the buyer notified the seller of complaints within a stated period was held not to apply where the seller contracted to sell reels of cotton 200 yards in length but actually supplied reels of only 188 yards : the claim was " not in respect of goods delivered but in respect of goods which are not delivered " ( despite the fact that this might have been regarded as a claim that the goods did not comply with their description ) .
4 What could legitimately be described as ‘ dubious tactics ’ on Malham Cove in the early 70s would have been regarded as quite normal in the early 60s and would be considered style of pathological purity in the 90s .
5 ‘ I suppose that would have been regarded as subversive by some governments in the bad old days , ’ he said .
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