Example sentences of "be regarded as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whether the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or the Stanze of Raphael should be regarded as the culminating effort of modern art , has long been the subject of controversy ’ ; but they both received double asterisks . |
| 2 | Do you think there 's a better means of selection , other than what seem generally to be regarded as a rather barbaric system ? |
| 3 | Even a letter to the Police Review can be regarded as a form of indiscipline : |
| 4 | There is a point here of immense importance for the understanding of Leonard which he shares with Layton ( who preferred to be regarded as a poet-prophet in the Hebrew tradition ) . |
| 5 | Inadequate thinking , as I hope to have shown in my section on mental development , can be regarded as the inadequate control of mental attention , and , like inadequate action , fails through misdirection , disinhibition , and unco-ordination . |
| 6 | In the circumstances , no member of Katherine 's funeral cortege was particularly surprised that there was trouble at the graveside , though they were relieved Dr Kavanagh had stayed away , the line from New York to Inniskeen quivering with warnings that opening Patrick 's grave would be regarded as desecration . |
| 7 | ‘ A college education should be regarded as everyone 's birthright . ’ |
| 8 | He came to be regarded as the major reason for the government 's post-Falklands electoral strength , its reputation for competence , enterprise , and success . |
| 9 | Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension . |
| 10 | This , I suppose , must be regarded as some sort of progress . |
| 11 | The policy to which we devoted years of labour must be regarded as a thing of the past . |
| 12 | In 1940 he wrote of an almost sanctified rural life as something vitally different from the separately developing urban culture which so disturbed him and pleaded that agriculture should be regarded as a vocation , rather than merely an industry , though he pointed out that such a view involved the whole orientation and scheme of values of a future society . |
| 13 | Because still in 1988 , under the pressure of social instability and political crises , homosexuality could be regarded as a kind of privation or error , an ‘ inverted positivity ’ , an inimical , pernicious , inauthenticity always threatening to return from within the true and the authentic . |
| 14 | As late as the 1900s , Mrs Humphry Ward , the best-selling Victorian novelist and leading anti-suffragist , stressed that marriage had to be regarded as a necessary discipline , for if husbands and wives could not resolve their differences what hope remained for the larger polity ? |
| 15 | A woman with no children may well be regarded as a witch who must be ostracised and barred from celebrations . |
| 16 | In lower Patel families the birth of many daughters began to be regarded as a disaster . |
| 17 | The women began increasingly to be regarded as possessions of their families . |
| 18 | Firstly Muslims ( like Christians and unlike Hindus ) have set prayers which should be said during the day , so that Christian prayers can be regarded as a threat or at least an alternative to Islam , and secondly , while Hindu and Sikh parents often regard Christian prayers for their children as so much water off a duck 's back , Muslims , again like Christians or religious Jews , object to any other religious influence on their children . |
| 19 | It could be regarded as the original monocoque , because it used a lightweight structure of four small-diameter steel tubes and a stressed aluminium skin . |
| 20 | In addition to rot and insect attack which may be regarded as defects intrinsic to timber , problems also arise from the way timber elements of traditional buildings were assembled . |
| 21 | If such techniques appear to have been used , the structure should be regarded as suspect , because all reputable Victorian engineers were aware of the risks of making connections by these methods . |
| 22 | It was purchased by an architect , Michael Manser , in 1969 , for what would now be regarded as a nominal sum . |
| 23 | At the slightest sign of originality in approach or technique a director might well be regarded as a menace and any departure from the hoary formula adhered to by the executives could be considered highly presumptuous . |
| 24 | Filmmakers were rarely imported from outside ( Thorold Dickinson , who was allowed in to make Secret People in 1952 , could be regarded as an ‘ old boy ’ since he had worked at the studio during Basil Dean 's time ) and , with five directors responsible for two-thirds of the films made at the studio between 1942 and 1955 , there was little competition inside the studio , and no exposure to fresh ideas from outside . |
| 25 | The SACC characterisation of Mr De Klerk 's statement , as ‘ cynical and spurious ’ , is likely to be regarded as something of an understatement in many legal and political circles . |
| 26 | The Stock Exchange concluded that the accounts could be regarded as suspect because they made no reference to such business , according to Sir Anthony . |
| 27 | A victory for her would be regarded as a particularly bitter blow for Mr Chirac , who has been campaigning in support of her rival . |
| 28 | Agency may be regarded as an extension of legal personality . |
| 29 | A gesture can not be regarded as the expression of an individual , as his or her creation ( because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture , belonging to nobody else ) , nor can it even be regarded as that person 's instrument ; on the contrary , it is gestures that use us as their instruments , as their bearers and incarnations . |
| 30 | A gesture can not be regarded as the expression of an individual , as his or her creation ( because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture , belonging to nobody else ) , nor can it even be regarded as that person 's instrument ; on the contrary , it is gestures that use us as their instruments , as their bearers and incarnations . |