Example sentences of "as for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | As for the Government 's style , Mr Heseltine suggested that much of its tough ‘ rhetoric ’ was empty , because the hostile words did not match the actions . |
| 32 | As for the comparison with regions within the country which do not have balance of payments accounts , the balance of payments is a record of transactions between areas with genuine informational content even in these examples . |
| 33 | As for the rank-and-file , the conference gives the impression that green belt and suburban preoccupations dominate the concern for the future of the ecosphere , not-in-my-backyard as Nicholas Ridley dubbed the attitude , ever honest and inept . |
| 34 | As for the Chancellor himself , Mr Parkinson said : ‘ I think he has both the backbone and the brains and the determination to see us through this difficulty . ’ |
| 35 | Decisions about data collection should be determined by the need for an informed society as well as for the concerns of government ; 2 . |
| 36 | But if the full peak-to-peak period , 1979 to 1988 , is counted , our average growth rate is just 2.1 per cent — the same as for the OECD countries as a whole . |
| 37 | For the West , as for the Poles , there was a time for obstinate political defiance . |
| 38 | As for the future , much depends on how far the King is prepared to renounce constitutional prerogatives . |
| 39 | As for the hunt for Mr Palme 's murderer , Swedish police officials have asserted that it will continue . |
| 40 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 41 | Since both hands are needed for the descent , as much as for the climb , one can not keep hold of any eggs that one finds . |
| 42 | It was a coup d'etat. ’ -Margaret Thatcher ‘ As for the leaders of the former Alliance parties , I will say no more than this : they have never learned what every woman knows — that you ca n't make a souffle rise twice . ’ |
| 43 | Policing in Northern Ireland is a very controversial topic in a sensitive environment , and this sensitivity has implications for the research ( on which see Brewer 1990 b ) , especially its design and location , as well as for the validity and reliability of the results . |
| 44 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 45 | The two archbishops thought that Ramsey would be an excellent bishop but it was not right , it was bad for the Church as well as for the study of divinity , to take him out of the Cambridge chair after so short a tenure . |
| 46 | As for the colonial context , Homi Bhabha argues that here mimicry is both a strategy of colonial subjection — an appropriation , regulation , and reform of the other — and , potentially , a way of menacing colonial discourse in and through an inappropriate imitation by the native , one which reveals the normative structure of colonial control . |
| 47 | As for the fedayeen , they ‘ observed a smiling rigour . |
| 48 | In 1974 Labour introduced new policies for each of these , as well as for the EEC , housing finance , and trade union law . |
| 49 | The widespread agreement across the electorate on many issues increases the possibilities for voters to shop around the political parties , as well as for the political parties to attract voters who are not traditional supporters . |
| 50 | I am fighting for them as much as for the shareholders . |
| 51 | As for the women , he said , they suffered from the same sort of things — depression and sometimes guilt . |
| 52 | As for the Gujeratis from East Africa , in many cases the whole joint family has been transplanted into Britain , from young babies even to great grandmothers . |
| 53 | As for the Gujerati joint family it looks as though nothing can save it now . |
| 54 | As for the women , the government seems not to regard them as human beings at all , unless as in the days of the British Empire the fact that they are women can be used to deny them basic rights or torture them in special ways . |
| 55 | As for the position of Asian women , the immigration laws show the government 's attitude — that there is no need even to pretend that they are equal . |
| 56 | As for the National Union of Teachers , they rejected a motion at their annual conference calling for the exclusion of National Front members from school teaching . |
| 57 | As for the letter , return to the manager and explain to him that , as it 's addressed to you , it is your property . |
| 58 | For those who are familiar with Lewis 's literary persona , as for the much smaller number of people who knew him in life , his acceptance of an orthodox Christian position seems in an almost literal sense fitting . |
| 59 | As for the Russian angle , it came about because of a dream . |
| 60 | As for the rest , ‘ no one can expect us to sign our own death sentence . |