The phrase "instead of being regarded" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when contrasting how something is perceived or viewed compared to an alternative perspective.
Example: "Instead of being regarded as a failure, he saw the experience as a valuable lesson."
Alternatives: "rather than being seen" or "instead of being viewed".
Instead of being regarded as fossils from bygone era, smallholders are identified in the report as "change agents" and "catalysts" in the business of agricultural transformation.
Because intercomprehensibility lies along a scale, the degree required for two or more forms of speech to qualify as dialects of a single language, instead of being regarded as separate languages, is not easy to quantify or to lay down in advance, and the actual cutoff point must in the last resort be arbitrary.
Instead of being regarded as strange for choosing the startup path, one participant remarked that is would be great to spread the message that working on startups is worthwhile and cool.
Attention problems might deserve special consideration in this group, instead of being regarded as another manifestation of an underlying general cognitive deficit [ 19].
Many caregivers might report on different aspects than patients, and thus the patient self-assessment and patient-by-proxy assessment perspectives might be complementary instead of being regarded interchangeable.
The fact that the indictment specified manslaughter instead of murder is regarded as a distinct Arbuckle victory.
The result is that instead of women's sports being regarded as different yet worthy of watching in their own right they are often considered inferior.
Instead, they should rather be regarded as support of current clinical practice in DCIS of the breast.
Instead, it should be regarded as an eclectic collection of essays that will be extremely useful to a relatively small number of dedicated researchers in the field.
If the substance shows LRTP instead, then it is regarded to be a borderline chemical and of equivalent high concern.
Instead, this should be regarded as a critical appreciation.
