Example sentences of "regard as a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This.vertical Phillips curve ( labelled LPC in Fig. 6.4 ) can be regarded as a warning to policy-makers that continued attempts to reduce unemployment below its natural level can only lead to higher and higher inflation rates and no long-run decrease in unemployment . |
| 2 | Profumo unfortunately succumbed to the charms of a Miss Christine Keeler who — casting my mind back — appeared at the time to be an attractive little thing , and whose very appearance could be regarded as a warning to every husband anxious to preserve his marriage . |
| 3 | Arthur de la Mare observed on 29 June 1946 that a situation had arisen which could , without exaggeration , be regarded as a menace to world peace . |
| 4 | Such an exhortation was meant to encourage adolescents to accept what was in effect an ideological belief , namely , that ‘ any service for which payment is accepted , however humble it may be , is to be regarded as a service to the community and to be conscientiously performed . ’ |
| 5 | The provision of accommodation by a local authority should be regarded as a service to the family . |
| 6 | Heresy becomes a social solecism , a self-declared exile , as the personal history of Protestant converts amply proves : George Borrow 's Bible peddling was regarded as a threat to society itself or an incomprehensible eccentricity . |
| 7 | Their participation , approved in June [ see p. 38987 ] , had been prompted by Western concern to enlist co-operation in preventing sensitive technology reaching countries regarded as a threat to global security . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Zarathustra 's monotheistic religion can be regarded as a response to the social conditions of his time , an age of transition when a settled agricultural and pastoral community was being threatened by predatory tribes who still followed the nomadic way of life . |
| 11 | This extension of army powers , regarded as a blow to the authority of the government , came amid moves by the PPP to regain the political initiative . |
| 12 | Some part of NBFIs ' purchase of company securities in 1986 , therefore , should be regarded as a contribution to public sector financing . |
| 13 | In other words , active citizenship should be regarded as a supplement to , not as a substitute for , the citizenship of entitlement . |
| 14 | The offer , regarded as a boost to private and direct foreign investment [ see p. 39099 ] , had reportedly been prompted by an attempt to supplement the inadequate resources of the state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Commission and Oil India . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyone accused of murder is regarded as a danger to the public and there should have been more control here , ’ said a senior City police officer . |
| 16 | Similarly , the notion of social development through increasing differentiation and individuation has had a considerable place in later sociological theories , although its political implications have been judged in diverse ways ; from one aspect social differentiation may be seen as creating a mutual dependence of individuals and groups which is a fundamental element in a stable democratic system , while from another aspect ( as in Durkheim 's theory ) it may be regarded as a danger to the political order if it leads to excessive individualism , and then needs to be checked by a moral consensus embodied in the state . |
| 17 | Matthew Arnold , as we shall see in Chapter 3 , regarded English as a vehicle for overcoming class divisions ; in the late Victorian era , it was regarded as a sop to women demanding higher education ( see Baldick 1984 ) . |
| 18 | Neither an acute complication of gall stone disease nor a non-functioning gall bladder , if caused by a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch , was regarded as a contraindication to treatment . |
| 19 | The stringent exclusion criteria in trials of antithrombotic therapy ensured that less than 10% of those with AF were actually considered suitable for randomisation , and in one study , being over 75 was itself regarded as a contraindication to anticoagulation until later into the enrolment phase . |
| 20 | The question is whether this can really be regarded as a solution to the problem of the relativity of truth . |
| 21 | Spelling is often regarded as a totem to be preserved by patriots , rather than a technology , because it was invented thousands of years ago . |
| 22 | Santiago de Compostela can legitimately be regarded as a shrine to the survival of Nazarean thought , in implicit defiance of Rome . |
| 23 | It is not , however , to be regarded as a receptacle to be emptied and purified for an infilling of some cosmic force . |
| 24 | The jamming and bridging got steeper — with the one big consolation that , strength permitting , you could pop in nuts almost at will — until he reached a ledge which elsewhere he would have regarded as a slab to be climbed , but here seemed a spacious refuge . |
| 25 | Not only did Mr Solarz support a war that most liberal Democrats regarded as an invitation to disaster , but he actively pushed for confrontation with Iraq — linking arms in the process with such unlikely conservative allies as Richard Perle and Jeane Kirkpatrick . |
| 26 | Some of this money was pocketed by the English captain there , Thomas Catterton , who was regarded as an accomplice to the deal and was subsequently accused of treason . |
| 27 | 10 years ago , announcing an allegiance to Leeds United was regarded as an admission to being demented , a psychopath , or both . |
| 28 | The ex-MetropolitaN Feltham cars followed their ex-L.U.T. brethren to Telford Avenue and some were allocated to Brixton Hill depôt which was now regarded as an annexe to Telford Avenue and had no traverser . |
| 29 | For that reason I have related some of the more interesting highlights of my life in the Western Isles in the following chapters which can be regarded as an intermission to my Cutter Service . |
| 30 | Perhaps the most general point to be made about the survey proper is that it should be regarded as an end-point to be reached after careful preparation . |