Example sentences of "regard it [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite early on " I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle " , he wrote later , " and regarded it as a question of time , place , and circumstance … " |
| 2 | They declared their hostility to apprenticeship since they regarded it as a delay in ridding the colonies of slavery . |
| 3 | I regarded it as a nuisance , regarded it as something totally unnecessary . |
| 4 | However , the natives , who had known yasak , or alman , before the Russians arrived on the scene , and regarded it as a payment by a vanquished people to its conqueror , in the time-honoured manner would pay only as long as it suited them . |
| 5 | At first they regarded it as a prerequisite for the socialization of large-scale heavy industry . |
| 6 | However , he regarded it as a mark of respect and discipline , and old habits died hard . |
| 7 | Suppose that within the five-year term the Government were defeated in the Commons on a topic so important that it regarded it as a matter of confidence in itself . |
| 8 | The prediction of its heliacal rising after inferior conjunction , that is , its first reappearance as ‘ the morning star ’ after a period of invisibility , was of vital concern to the Maya , who regarded it as a moment of particular dread . |
| 9 | We always regarded it as a partnership , we just had n't made it official by telling the Institute or the Inland Revenue . ’ |
| 10 | While it needs to be developed in terms of the production of ideologies by class formations , he regards it as a corrective to the view , often attributed to the sociology of knowledge , that a particular ideology belongs to a class . |
| 11 | He regards it as a way forward for the museum and a means of providing a window for many more people on Britain 's scientific and technological expertise . |
| 12 | And it is a characteristic of Richard Branson that wherever he is , he regards it as a party , and has usually done his best to make it such by the addition of as many people as possible . |
| 13 | Land lies derelict , land is poorly farmed , and one rather has the feeling that Norton-Taylor regards it as a sin to own land at all . |
| 14 | Like Grisone , they believe that the horse regards it as a reward when the rider or handler stops punishing it ! |
| 15 | France had never at heart been enthusiastic about the EDC , regarding it at a minimum as perhaps a lesser evil : fundamentally , it did not want West German rearmament . |
| 16 | The picturesque taste invariably distances and romanticizes , viewing the cottage from the outside , not the inside ; regarding it as a feature in the landscape , not as a place to live in . |
| 17 | Grandiloquence was the besetting linguistic vice of Dickens 's era , and it is clear from many burlesque treatments of it in his novels ( notably in the language of Mr Micawber ) , that he himself regarded it as a vice . |
| 18 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 19 | ‘ When the first maypole was erected the Gawthorpe people regarded it as a sign of their independent spirit . ’ |
| 20 | Otherwise , it seems to have regarded it as a matter of political judgment . |
| 21 | He would have regarded it as a breach of etiquette for a French nobleman to present himself at court in uniform . |
| 22 | But the phone was cut off , the DHSS did n't regard it as a necessity . |
| 23 | I do n't regard it as a sacrifice . ’ |
| 24 | To know he had considered her ‘ special ’ was satisfying , but she did not regard it as a signal to fall headlong into his arms . |
| 25 | Academics regard bias as a sin , but others may regard it as a virtue . |
| 26 | I found this mistake hurtful : 'more specifically , I did n't regard it as a source of amusement . |
| 27 | ‘ We do regard it as a profile raiser , ’ he said . |
| 28 | For example , it could be argued that ‘ photograph ’ may be divided into two independent words , ‘ photo ’ and ‘ graph ’ ; yet we usually do not regard it as a compound , but as an affix word . |
| 29 | Gandhi would regard it as a failure to preserve or maintain the function of symbols and a degeneration of their purpose . |
| 30 | However since the Convention does not specify that the acceptance be directed towards the treaty parties it might not be possible to regard it as a collateral agreement . |