Example sentences of "as regards " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards restoration , just as we would not dream of stripping out the original interior of the Blackfriar , by the same token we would not seek to preserve a Thirties estate pub which had long since ceased to address the needs of the community it was built to serve . |
| 2 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 3 | It is doubtful if anything remotely striking will be forthcoming as regards either ISDN or OSI in the two years remaining before dawning of the brave new communicative continent in 1992 . |
| 4 | As regards ‘ externality ’ , for instance , Pound may be thought to admit the charge , and to glory in it . |
| 5 | He submitted that it was quite clear that the FPC reached a considered decision as what it found to be the proper level of use of the deputising service consistently with maintaining the doctor 's primary responsibility and as regards the need to maintain the standards of the deputising service efficiently and consistently with that obligation . |
| 6 | Over a million people found themselves dependent on supplementary benefit to eke out an inadequate existence as regards food and drink , with inflation taking its toll of what was provided . |
| 7 | The first parliamentary Acts concerning housing in the nineteenth century were Public Health Acts , which laid down requirements as regards sanitation and public safety . |
| 8 | While Morgan is especially interested in the gens as a stage in the history of kinship which predates the appearance of the family , and which shows that matrilineal descent preceded patrilineal descent , Marx stresses rather its significance as proof of the existence of organizing principles ( especially as regards property ) which were opposite to those of capitalism . |
| 9 | For Marx and Engels the gens was the typical communal unit containing no internal differentiation as regards property or wives . |
| 10 | The exaggeration or over-simplification of the notion of commonality within the gens as regards ownership of property is also apparent in the discussion of kinship and this led equally to a fundamental misunderstanding . |
| 11 | He also comes very close to describing what anthropologists have actually found is the case as regards property in pre-capitalist systems . |
| 12 | Sir Anthony says : ‘ The Department were at fault in failing to appreciate that the instructions given to Spicers to carry out an audit of the partnership 's client accounts would not , at least as regards some important Barlow Clowes portfolios , have enabled any reassurance to be gained on the score of the concern that the partnership could not make the payments of income they had guaranteed without eroding clients ’ capital . |
| 13 | Sir Anthony concludes : ‘ A regulatory agency — which is what the Department were , at the time , in relation to the protection of investors — ought , to my mind , by definition adopt a rigorous and enquiring approach as regards material coming into its possession concerning an undertaking about which suspicions have been aroused , and also as regards representations made to it on the part of the undertaking in question . |
| 14 | Sir Anthony concludes : ‘ A regulatory agency — which is what the Department were , at the time , in relation to the protection of investors — ought , to my mind , by definition adopt a rigorous and enquiring approach as regards material coming into its possession concerning an undertaking about which suspicions have been aroused , and also as regards representations made to it on the part of the undertaking in question . |
| 15 | Sir Anthony , who recommended full compensation , concluded : ‘ A regulatory agency ought to my mind , by definition , to adopt a rigorous and enquiring approach as regards material coming into its possession concerning an undertaking about which suspicions have been aroused . |
| 16 | Having a child is an enriching thing as regards that . |
| 17 | No more Tube , no more of your favourite bands on the telly , another dark age as regards the media . |
| 18 | ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate … |
| 19 | Then as regards contracts . |
| 20 | Common Law put the wife , both as regards rights and liabilities , in a very subordinate position to her husband . |
| 21 | As regards the real estate of the deceased , it is settled by the end of the thirteenth century that he can make no will , except where there is a local custom to that effect . |
| 22 | But as regards his goods and chattels , which include his leaseholds , it is early admitted that he has at least a limited power to dispose by will — limited because his wife and children may have rights which he can not override . |
| 23 | A person above the age of 13 , though under 18 , does not differ in general as regards criminal liability from a person of full age , though modern legislation has made special provision for the trial and punishment of persons under 17 . |
| 24 | As regards property , it should be noticed that law and practice , to a large extent , make it unlikely that property of any considerable value will come into the direct ownership of an infant . |
| 25 | As regards this latter class of contracts , the Infants ' Relief Act 1874 very much altered the law . |
| 26 | Women , though at one time excluded from most public functions , were never by reason merely of their sex in a substantially different position from men as regards criminal liability , property and contract , if we except the rule ( now nearly obsolete ) which prefers males to females in the succession to real estate on intestacy . |
| 27 | It is unnecessary as regards persons whom the husband has not by his previous conduct induced to look to him for payment ; it is ineffectual as regards those who do not happen to see the advertisement . |
| 28 | It is unnecessary as regards persons whom the husband has not by his previous conduct induced to look to him for payment ; it is ineffectual as regards those who do not happen to see the advertisement . |
| 29 | It can be seen that by piecemeal legislation great strides have been made towards equality between the sexes as regards legal status , rights and liabilities . |
| 30 | The recent reform of the grounds for divorce has been mirrored as regards proceedings in magistrates ' courts by the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates ' Courts Act 1978 , a statute enacted as the result of recommendations made by the Law Commission . |