Example sentences of "[adv] regarded as [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as the sole candidate and with the very high rate of abstention ( only 28.28 per cent of voters turned out ) , his presidency had been widely regarded as lacking in legitimacy . |
| 2 | Up to this time many astronomers had regarded Venus as the Earth 's twin , and that beneath the clouds , which were widely regarded as consisting of water , there were oceans and perhaps vegetation and animals . |
| 3 | Within the rock discourse of the time , progressive rock was widely regarded as associated with , indeed as the music of , the ‘ counterculture ’ . |
| 4 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |
| 5 | I agree with Sir Frederick Pollock 's note on the case of De La Bere v. Pearson , Ltd. when he wrote in Pollock on Contracts ( 13th ed. ) , 140 ( n. 31 ) that ‘ the cause of action is better regarded as arising from default in the performance of a voluntary undertaking independent of contract . ’ |
| 6 | Well Loaded Much talked-about guitar rockers , generally regarded as destined for the bigger stadia of life , unless they self-destruct en route . |
| 7 | It may take drastic discontinuities , of the kind described above , to highlight the fact that the environment over a period must be taken into account before one can attempt to predict the course of personality development , yet children reared under normal home circumstances are generally regarded as remaining under such constant environmental conditions that this consideration does not hold . |
| 8 | Although people in the Cape Town ballet world thought highly of his promise , John 's talent as a choreographer was not regarded as proved by the time he left South Africa ( at only eighteen , why should it have been ? ) , and other young choreographers were at least as highly thought of . |
| 9 | This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself . |
| 10 | Viewed overall , only half the minister 's members are now regarded as experienced in the park purposes they are appointed to present . |
| 11 | Thus , in the Report for the year 1980–81 , the CDA commented that the industrial co-operative was still often regarded as characterised by them . |
| 12 | It has to succeed , not in fair competition , but in the face of ignorance and misunderstanding : ignorance , because whereas professional knowledge and informed advice on the incorporation and conduct of conventionally organised companies are generally available , whereas education and training relating to them are commonplace , this is not true for co-operatives ; misunderstanding , because the industrial co-operative sector is still often regarded as characterised by the three well-known rescue cases … and hence as supposing itself to be exempted from test by commercial criteria and the rigours of the market economy . |
| 13 | Every one of those links , whether it is an effect on the chemistry inside a cell , a later effect on how brain cells wire themselves together , an even later effect on behaviour , or a final effect on lake size , is correctly regarded as caused by a change in the DNA . |
| 14 | On 4 July the duke was made chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north ; steward of Rochdale and Tottington in the county palatine ; of Clitheroe and Penwortham ( Lancs. ) and of Halton ( Ches. ) ; and master forester of the Lancashire forests , together with the forest of Bowland , then regarded as lying in Yorkshire . |
| 15 | On 4 July the duke was made chief steward of the duchy of Lancaster in the north ; steward of Rochdale and Tottington in the county palatine ; of Clitheroe and Penwortham ( Lancs. ) and of Halton ( Ches. ) ; and master forester of the Lancashire forests , together with the forest of Bowland , then regarded as lying in Yorkshire . |