Example sentences of "regarded [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The goods will therefore be regarded as belonging to the original owner unless one of the exceptions applies .
2 The teachers ' authority is not to be regarded as delegated by the parent .
3 It has to succeed , not in fair competition , but in the face of ignorance and misunderstanding : ignorance , because whereas professional knowledge and informed advice on the incorporation and conduct of conventionally organised companies are generally available , whereas education and training relating to them are commonplace , this is not true for co-operatives ; misunderstanding , because the industrial co-operative sector is still often regarded as characterised by the three well-known rescue cases … and hence as supposing itself to be exempted from test by commercial criteria and the rigours of the market economy .
4 That rate of : wage inflation which can be attributed solely to union militancy can be regarded as resulting from the power struggle between unions and employers for a bigger share of the national ‘ cake ’ and between the unions themselves for higher places in the wages ‘ league table ’ .
5 This led to calls for the reassertion of the values and practices of the Tokugawa period , or rather of those that the ruling élite regarded as according to the needs of post-1868 Japan .
6 Even where the only ‘ standard ’ terms of the seller are those in the exemption clause itself , still a buyer whose contract includes that exemption clause could well be regarded as buying on the seller 's ‘ written standard terms of business . ’
7 Success for the normal children ranged from 82 per cent to 100 per cent , and Fenn suggests that , as a rule of thumb , a child who fails the test should be regarded as functioning below the level of the normal 4- to 5-year-old .
8 Wood which concluded : ‘ The non-treaty Nez Perces can not in law be regarded as bound by the treaty of 1863 ; and in so far as it attempts to deprive them of a right to occupancy on any land its provisions are null and void . ’
9 Davies v. Sumner is the leading authority on the meaning of the expression ‘ in the course of a business ’ and has been followed in a case under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , R. & B. Customs Brokers v. United Dominion Trust , where it was held that a business 's buying of two or three cars over a period of five years was an insufficient degree of regularity for the latest such purchase to be regarded as made in the course of the business ( see paragraph 10–18 above . )
10 The allowance can not normally be paid for the first time after pension age because it is regarded as overlapping with the retirement pension .
11 Well Loaded Much talked-about guitar rockers , generally regarded as destined for the bigger stadia of life , unless they self-destruct en route .
12 But they were fairly sure that Lothar would persist in his old tricks , and in that case , as Nithard candidly admitted , " they would have to be regarded as absolved from the oath they had sworn " .
13 Viewed overall , only half the minister 's members are now regarded as experienced in the park purposes they are appointed to present .
14 This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself .
15 Negative pulsatances are to be regarded as arising from the mathematical processes and do not , of course , have physical significance .
16 Second , as regards durability , the goods should last for a reasonable time and any breach should be regarded as occurring at the time of supply rather than when the lack of durability became apparent .
17 Although people in the Cape Town ballet world thought highly of his promise , John 's talent as a choreographer was not regarded as proved by the time he left South Africa ( at only eighteen , why should it have been ? ) , and other young choreographers were at least as highly thought of .
18 In 1976 ( Re S ) the principle of making a condition for access was set out by Cairns , L. J. as follows : ‘ Clearly no condition should be imposed which would be regarded as detracting from the rights and duties of the adoptive parents ’ .
19 ‘ It was acknowledged that the proposed new measures could be regarded as detracting from the sport 's essential sense of adventure and freedom . ’
20 In a block of premises each tenant can normally be regarded as consenting to the presence of water on the premises if the supply is of the usual character , but not if it is of quite an unusual kind , or defective or dangerous , unless he actually knows of that .
21 ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’
22 Some have connections which are so close to education that they can be regarded as falling inside the group of like-minded supporters .
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