Example sentences of "[adv] [be] considered to [be] " in BNC.

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1 An unemployment rate well in excess of what had hitherto been considered to be a stable NAIRU was failing to produce sustained reductions in the rate of inflation beyond the initial impact effect of the fall in aggregate demand .
2 In fact , Dunrossness has long been considered to be the most fertile and agriculturally productive area in the whole of Shetland .
3 In Britain , for example , Merseyside , Sheffield and Glasgow have long been considered to be ‘ red islands ’ within British society : the labour movement having forced out of the state substantial levels of collective housing and welfare provision .
4 Initially , city advisers would need to rethink their attitudes towards a telephone service where sometimes the client who phones in is considered to be jumping the queue .
5 The site supports a large number and wide variety of bird species and so is considered to be a Wetland Site of International Importance .
6 Sheriff Brian Lockhart , who is presiding over the fatal accident inquiry , asked whether the Newton plans , referred to throughout five weeks of the inquiry so far as ‘ single lead ’ had not been considered to be so at the time .
7 In February the Interior Minister , Col. Djibril Ould Abdullah , who had generally been considered to be second in the political hierarchy and had been involved in 1986 in the vigorous suppression of unrest among black Mauritanians , was dismissed and replaced by Col. Mohammed Sidina Ould Sidya , a southerner [ see p. 37239 ] .
8 In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam .
9 And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence .
10 Q7 " A firm can not be considered to be genuinely marketing-orientated unless it has a thorough understanding of its markets , its customers and their problems . "
11 Learning to draw Islamic patterns at Eid , or Rangoli patterns at Diwali can not be considered to be mathematics unless the mathematical ideas embedded in the patterns are fully explored — considering rotation , reflection and translation can turn this investigation into one where the place of mathematics in different cultures is clear rather than leaving one feeling that examples of important geometric ideas are somehow ‘ outside ’ the real world of mathematics .
12 The electricity industry had always been considered to be a natural monopoly and plans to privatise it were preceded by lengthy discussions about the ideal structure for the industry .
13 IN the days when the British car industry was a joke , one firm more than any was considered to be a laughing stock .
14 Eventually , of course , the dug-outs return with the news that prices and demand had increased on other islands also and that what had erroneously been considered to be a series of relative price and demand shifts turned out to have affected all islands equally .
15 As an inside exploration of culture this might also be considered to be a ‘ liminal ’ or ‘ liminoid ’ phenomenon ( V. Turner 1974 , 1977 ) , for as it delves beneath the surface phenomena , the subjective analysis can reveal unconscious categories and transformational operations which lie between the dual poles and such exclusively preferred categories as ‘ cops and robbers ’ .
16 In this way , this family of solutions may also be considered to be a generalization of the Szekeres solutions with .
17 The importance of this part of the debate is that it illuminates one crucially important difference between , on this occasion , Devlin and Hart : that is , the disagreement over whether or not it is possible for there to be areas of behaviour which , whilst they might be considered to be ‘ immoral ’ , could also be considered to be ‘ private ’ .
18 Like glass , they may also be considered to be intermediate between liquid and solid .
19 NOT 1 evaluates to -2 , which would also be considered to be TRUE .
20 The occupier of a private house ( but not the owner of a house who had never entered into possession of it ) would probably be considered to be in possession of anything placed or left in it — at any rate unless it was concealed — while the occupier of a shop has been held not to be in possession of a thing dropped in a part of the shop to which the public had access .
21 Babies can not therefore really be considered to be trained as they do not realize when they want to go , do not indicate that they want to , and do not go to the potty by themselves .
22 If you can forgive Milton for what might now be considered to be a sexist remark , there is a 17th century solidity about his philosophy of learning .
23 Nonetheless , the original concept of driving a flight simulator by the flight data recorder can now be considered to be in its first stage of development .
24 ‘ Experiences , relationships etc are considered to be supportive when the individual involved sees the experience tin terms of his values , goals , expectations , and aspirations ) as contributing to or maintaining his sense of personal worth and importance . ’
25 Villages with vineyards rated between go and 99% inclusive are considered to be premiers crus while those classed at 100% are grands crus .
26 This may well be considered to be an important factor , but , like other arguments for restricting popular influence or control over political systems and assemblies , it is not a democratic argument .
27 A family member who did not react to the craziness of Chemical Dependency or other addictive disease would be a very strange , unreactive , person who might well be considered to be at least odd if not ill or crazy himself or herself for not reacting .
28 It appears to be the most durable consequence of , and could well be considered to be a ‘ surviving paradigma ’ of , Paracelsus .
29 So erm er erm by n by no means er could you call one point one percent of something that can vary by factors of three in , in , in , in Cornwall the natural radiation is three times what it is in , in Essex erm er but they seem to be quite er healthy nevertheless in Cornwall erm so point one percent is er varies by factors of three , obviously ca n't be considered to be erm er a major political er a major erm er environmental hazard .
30 Such experiences as love , hate , anger , sympathy , guilt , joy , sorrow and so on are considered to be abstract things as opposed to concrete objects like stones , trees or physical bodies .
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