Example sentences of "regarded [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hasidim idealised them , regarded them as intermediaries between God and his world . |
| 2 | Their common-sense ideas about life , good housekeeping and the rest were ignored by government after government , who regarded them as an over-productive milch-cow . |
| 3 | So far from treating the problems of the inner city as local difficulties which a bit of capitalist enterprise could clear up , it regarded them as evidence of systemic failure . |
| 4 | This idea inspired knights from France to flock to the assistance of the struggling Christian kingdoms in northern Spain ; but there was clearly a nice distinction between the attitude of men north of the Pyrenees , who regarded the Muslim as the wicked infidel , as cattle for the slaughter , and the Christians who had lived among them in Spain and who regarded them as misguided fellow-humans . |
| 5 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 6 | The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself . |
| 7 | Perhaps the Minoans regarded them as fearful intermediaries — essential but frightening go-betweens . |
| 8 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 9 | There is no evidence that the court circle in East Anglia , including those elements most closely identified with the queen , was inimical to Gloucester , or that the duke regarded them as rivals for power in the region . |
| 10 | In this new environment women were more frequently allowed to inherit property than they had been earlier , though inevitably the more they were heiresses the more those men who had power over them — uncles or guardians — regarded them as marketable assets . |
| 11 | Strains developed over the migration of the ‘ vyezzhye belye Kalmyki ’ to Russian territory , since the prince of the Teleuts regarded them as traitorous subjects and demanded their return . |
| 12 | Moreover , although their new jobs were temporary , not all of them regarded them as a " stop-gap " . |
| 13 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 14 | She regarded them as " mentors " who taught her a great deal about management , and international leadership . |
| 15 | Cigarettes , so cheap and in such large numbers , were snapped up even by non-smokers , who regarded them as some new kind of currency ; and the little bottles , so exquisitely miniature , ‘ twee ’ , as Sister Dew put it , could have nothing wicked about them even for teetotallers . |
| 16 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 17 | There is no evidence that the court circle in East Anglia , including those elements most closely identified with the queen , was inimical to Gloucester , or that the duke regarded them as rivals for power in the region . |
| 18 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 19 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 20 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a feature of the Wallasey landscape but unpopular with some local residents who regarded them as an eyesore and the cause of television reception problems . |
| 21 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 22 | We regarded ourselves as more hostages than prisoners . |
| 23 | He regarded himself as a liberal and a ‘ friend of black people ’ . |
| 24 | Ernie , who regarded himself as an expert with horses , had never at any time reassessed his skills . |
| 25 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 26 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 27 | However , Hope , by that time , clearly regarded himself as the embodiment of blacks ' ambitions . |
| 28 | He regarded himself as ‘ a bit of an antiquarian ’ but excavation was beyond his experience , so he called in John Barber , Classics Master at Oakham School who had dug in Greece with the British School at Athens . |
| 29 | This is not to be viewed as condescending : Roderick regarded himself as a student of the subject and said so on many occasions during the writing of the new book . |
| 30 | By now Wood regarded himself as something between his esteemed guest 's confidant and his protector . |