Example sentences of "be regard [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 168 vacancies thus created , 42 were to be filled by new borough seats , including eight new London seats and seats for Manchester , Leeds , and Birmingham ; 55 were to be devoted to the provision of additional members for countries , to augment what had traditionally been regarded as the most " independent " element in the representative system ; and nine new places were to be given to Scotland , Ireland and Wales . |
| 2 | Turbulent flows have often been regarded as the most important yet least understood set of phenomena of fluid dynamics . |
| 3 | In general , however , Haycocks III has been regarded as the least important of the three reports and the difficult financial climate of the last few years has meant that its recommendations have been given a low priority . |
| 4 | Biofuels and wind power are regarded as the most promising technologies , along with small scale hydro and tidal power . |
| 5 | The eastern diamondback and the western diamondback are regarded as the most dangerous snakes in North America and are responsible for a number of human fatalities every year . |
| 6 | Among these factors , a reduced basal tone and frequent episodes of inappropriate relaxation of the lower oesophageal sphincter are regarded as the most important . |
| 7 | For practical purposes , the culpable causing of another person 's death may fairly be regarded as the most serious offence in the criminal calendar . |
| 8 | If causing death is to be regarded as the most serious harm that can be inflicted , it would seem to follow that the most blameworthy form of homicide should result in the highest sentences imposed by the courts . |
| 9 | Intent to kill may be regarded as the most obvious and indisputable form of fault element for murder , but to some extent that depends on the meaning of ‘ intent ’ . |
| 10 | They are an important source for two reasons : they indicate that the overload problem has been a constant since the Second World War and is not peculiar to the sixties , seventies and eighties , and that even what has come to be regarded as the most efficiently run administration since 1945 had serious difficulties in the handling of business . |
| 11 | Written by Dom Pérignon 's pupil and immediate successor at Hautvillers , the treatise must be regarded as the most authoritative contemporary account , not only of the state of viticulture and viniculture in Champagne in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries , but also of Dom Pérignon 's particular contribution to the art of winemaking . |
| 12 | Physics was chosen as a representative subject , not only because it is studied by so few women , and is therefore a typically masculine discipline , but also because it tends to be regarded as the most objective , rigorous and , indeed , successful of the pure sciences . |
| 13 | When first a new people group was contacted , the leaders were asked to pay tribute , and then they were often persuaded to make a solemn pact or covenant ( shen or prisyaga ) The customs of the locals were investigated to elicit information about what sort of oath would be regarded as the most binding . |
| 14 | While Brunner 's theology was for a time regarded , especially in Britain and America , as more ‘ moderate ’ than Barth 's , and therefore preferable , he must now be regarded as the less radical and less creative of the two . |
| 15 | is regarded as the most expensive grain in the world , and is n't really a rice at all but a type of grass . |
| 16 | With its large population and massive dependence on foreign exchange from oil exports Nigeria is regarded as the most vulnerable of the OPEC countries and has constantly battled to increase its production quota above the 1.3 million barrels per day laid down by OPEC . |
| 17 | The actual implementation of an innovation is regarded as the most important part of the study . |
| 18 | SIR , — I disagree with F. O. ter Kuile and colleagues ' conclusions ( April 24 , p 1044 ) about the anti-malarial drug mefloquine , which is regarded as the most effective such medication at present . |
| 19 | More importantly , they show how , even in what is regarded as the most basic type of communication , the context that is relevant to the disambiguation of deixis should be seen not as a physical setting that is fixed and given once and for all , but rather as a cognitive space that is actively constructed by participants in the course of the interaction . |
| 20 | Seals make up a large part of the diet of the great white shark the beast which terrified movie-goers in Jaws and is regarded as the most dangerous shark species . |
| 21 | He made his début for Essex in 1930 and during the 1930s was regarded as the most effective amateur bowler in English first-class cricket . |
| 22 | Surely there was an austere pride in the words of Thoreau when he wrote that he was regarded as the least important man in his village , and there is no doubt in my mind that he must have savoured the aroma of that rare emotion . |
| 23 | The imaging technique was regarded as the more promising , but the radiometer would have a continuing role to monitor the light intensity . |
| 24 | Dr Clark said Leeds was regarded as the more modern of the plants . |