Example sentences of "as for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the purchaser , tell him to come to my house and choose another picture — something that both he and I like . |
| 2 | As for the different ‘ sort ’ of girl known to the loser : |
| 3 | It is odd to speak of the creation of a state as the ‘ pretext ’ for anything : the translator may possibly be responsible for the oddity here , as for the orotundity that precedes it . |
| 4 | As for the glamour attached to some jobs and not to others : forget it , it 's a sham . |
| 5 | As for the time investment , planning the layout , preparing the plot by digging and manuring , sowing the seeds and watering those crops that needed extra moisture were all carried out well within the weekly ration of 60 minutes . |
| 6 | As for the laird — ’ he looked round with a quick black glint , ‘ he can lead us by the nose . ’ |
| 7 | As for the recovery of consciousness , or wakefulness , there is no imaginable physiology of this ‘ light dawning over the whole ’ . |
| 8 | What clearly frustrates him is that so much of the money now sloshing around in professional tennis , is being spent in damaging — or at least potentially damaging ways — rather than for the good of the game , as well as for the good of the individuals who are benefitting . |
| 9 | As for the build-up venues for the Grand Slam Cup , providing the surface was the same , the geographical choice need not matter . |
| 10 | The starting position is the same as for the squat . |
| 11 | As for the curves in this selection , the C13 and C14 were not the same , and therefore the work that was possible with one tool could not be repeated on its mirror image with its counterpart . |
| 12 | This will be the district office which covers the hospital which may not be the same office as for the place of residence . |
| 13 | The three stages of the exercise are : examination of personal values of the participants ; evaluation of existing services in the light of values expressed ; and a focus on ways of changing services so that carers can have access to ‘ valued lifestyles for themselves , as well as for the people they care for ’ . |
| 14 | As for the West Midlands , it tried various shades of red , white , blue , and grey and even canary yellow but by the end of 1989 had still not got its formula worked out . |
| 15 | A Character Ballet is one in which classical technique is discarded except where it is used to depict particular and usually fantastic characters as for the dolls in Petrushka and La Boutique Fantasque . |
| 16 | As for the other matter , it sounds like your dog could have earned his scabs by either defending himself , or having an argument with a cat . |
| 17 | As for the claim that the Cuk converter approaches 90% efficiency and produces minimal RF interference , exactly the same claims can be made for well-designed standard topologies . |
| 18 | As for the zener diode D , that is described as being in series with the base of Tr3 which has me completely baffled . |
| 19 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 20 | As for the rhyme , these are poems that characteristically celebrate the decorous in private and public life , and the verse must be in keeping ; rhyme , when it occurs , is one of several concessions to decorum . |
| 21 | Allowing for the conventions of sedate amenity that governed American reviewing ( as for the most part they still do ) , one can detect in the American reviewers of Eliot 's Poems ( 1920 ) and of The Waste Land ( 1922 ) the same recalcitrance that the British reviewers expressed more cheekily . |
| 22 | As for the private sector , while BT may be happy to provide pump priming for five telecottages in the north of Scotland , it is not about to bankroll a nationwide network . |
| 23 | As for the price paid of 550p , half in cash and half in convertible preference shares , the prospective p/e may be around 14.5 , to judge from an estimated 10 per cent rise in Caradon 's pre-tax profits to £17m in the half year to 1 October . |
| 24 | The agreement , reached at a meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg , will barely affect BBC and ITV programming but has more sweeping implications for nascent commercial companies as well as for the poorer public channels in southern Europe . |
| 25 | As for the conductor , Mr Salonen is making the going just now . |
| 26 | As for the Nehru , England 's first match is on 15 October , while India and Pakistan do not get under way until the 22nd . |
| 27 | As for the hoped-for recasting of the ‘ community charge ’ , nothing short of transferring education to central government — which is simply not going to happen before the next election — can reduce it to a politically painless level . |
| 28 | As for the flowers , the Dutch delegation will be calling for a total ban on trade in some rare slipper orchids , which they say face extinction in 10 years unless something drastic is done . |
| 29 | As for the race itself , Kinane added that he knew he would win some way from home and had enjoyed a trouble-free run throughout . |
| 30 | As for the match , Rovers conspired to throw a smokescreen of their own around their abilities until they emerged starkly with two clever goals inside three minutes early in the second half to scuttle their scoreless fellow Third Division promotion hopefuls . |