Example sentences of "[adv] regarded as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) Transfer of work A client is properly regarded as a client of the firm and not of the individual solicitor unless there is some personal , often family , connection between the two . |
| 2 | This was widely regarded as a triumph for Levi , who received a guarantee that he would retain his present Cabinet position in any future Likud-led government , and a written assurance that his supporters would receive increased representation within Likud institutions , the government , Knesset ( parliament ) committees and the Jewish Agency . |
| 3 | Emphasising that " the key to a peaceful solution lies in the hands of Afghans themselves " , he said nevertheless that the talks had been made possible by the " new , positive and changing " United States attitude , a comment widely regarded as a reference to recent US congressional moves to cut aid to the mujahedeen by 10 per cent . |
| 4 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 5 | In Berlin , for example , I heard of a woman addressed as Fräulein ( ‘ Miss ’ , literally ‘ little woman ’ and widely regarded as a put-down , so that many German women have abandoned it in favour of Frau ) by a male bus driver , who said ‘ Danke , Fräulein' when she tendered her fare . |
| 6 | Hau was widely regarded as a conservative , and violent street protests erupted in Taipei when news of his appointment emerged . |
| 7 | As a member of the politburo 's military faction he was widely regarded as a conservative . |
| 8 | He dressed from the Pinner charity shops , and was widely regarded as a gentleman , who wittered on rather too much about himself and could be a bit of a nuisance when he was drunk . |
| 9 | The Excess Profits Duty was widely regarded as a concession to mounting concern over profiteering ( Maguire 1987 ) , but the decision to levy it on societies posed fundamental questions about the nature of the cooperative enterprise . |
| 10 | Israel 's acceptance of Italy as a venue was widely regarded as a concession . |
| 11 | The move was widely regarded as a victory for reformers in the party , as the enlarged membership embraced members of the business community , intellectuals and a number of former dissidents . |
| 12 | The move was widely regarded as a victory for reformers in the party , as the enlarged membership embraced members of the business community , intellectuals and a number of former dissidents . |
| 13 | In its co-ordinated typography , pertinent use of colour-coding and subtlety of complex chartwork , BP 's Statistical Review is widely regarded as a model of its kind . |
| 14 | In 1886 he was invited to become the chief mechanical engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , for whom he completed , equipped , and organized the engineering workshops in Horwich , widely regarded as a model of their kind , eventually employing over 10,000 men . |
| 15 | Leicestershire is widely regarded as a pioneer of ‘ progressive ’ primary methods . |
| 16 | Huge though the payment was , it was widely regarded as a bargain , partly because most of the bill was met by insurers and partly because the amount was a fraction of the outstanding claims against the firm . |
| 17 | She was widely regarded as a crank . |
| 18 | The directors recommended that the dividend payout to shareholders should be increased by 25 per cent to 7.5p a share which was widely regarded as a move designed to ward off a takeover bid . |
| 19 | The move was widely regarded as an expression of his increasing dissatisfaction with the Labour Party , with which his Yahad party had merged in 1986 [ see p. 34770 ] . |
| 20 | The attack was widely regarded as an assassination attempt on Gilchrist Olympio , chairman of the opposition alliance Union of the Forces of Change ( UFC ) , who suffered serious injuries . |
| 21 | Many similar examples can be found around the world , but in Britain there is substantial historical evidence which suggests that sharing with relatives outside the nuclear family in adult life has never been widely regarded as an ideal to be aimed for ( see chapter 2 ) . |
| 22 | Local government , however , is also widely regarded as an instrument of democratic self-government . |
| 23 | The King 's speech was therefore widely regarded as an attempt to halt Jordan 's drift into regional isolation . |
| 24 | The move , widely regarded as an attempt to appease the government 's right-wing critics unhappy with the slow pace of Islamic reform and with recent Gulf war policy [ see pp. 38007 ; 38102 ] , was expected to be resisted by women 's groups and minorities . |
| 25 | The move , described as " a balancing act " , was widely regarded as an attempt by the government both to pacify religious fundamentalists critical of recent changes in its policy towards Afghanistan [ see pp. 38725-26 ] , and to secure closer co-operation from the ISI . |
| 26 | In what was widely regarded as an attempt to deflate the extraordinary personality cult which had grown up around him since his cancer was publicized , the King referred indirectly to his own mortality . |
| 27 | The ceremony was widely regarded as an effort to restore Prussia 's regional identity after its suppression during the years of communist rule in the former East Germany , and simultaneously to dissociate Frederick the Great from the Nazi Party , which had revered his military power . |
| 28 | From this point of view the state is not seen as a threat to freedom , but is rather regarded as a vehicle for securing broad community and individual rights against the power . |
| 29 | They are not necessarily regarded as a nuisance at law however and may not be actionable under that branch of the common law known as the tort of nuisance . |
| 30 | THE Birmingham Readers and Writers Festival , now in it 's sixth year , is rightly regarded as a jewel in Birmingham 's civic crown . |