Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Health and Safety Executive decided it would be inappropriate to take any form of legal action in regard to the fatal accident , ’ said Mr Brunswick . |
| 2 | ‘ the view of the courts may have undergone some change in regard to the relative rights of preference and ordinary shareholders … and to the disadvantage of the preference shareholders whose position has … become somewhat more approximated to [ that ] of debentureholders . ’ |
| 3 | Indeed it is questionable if an overall EEC policy in regard to the disadvantaged areas would be sensible other than the acceptance that problems exist , local schemes will be required and that financial assistance for support measures is essential . |
| 4 | The anti-modernist campaign of Pius X and his Secretary of State , Cardinal Merry del Val , pushed further the theological and intellectual implications of this radical otherness of the Church in regard to the whole process of Western society 's post-revolutionary modernization . |
| 5 | It is vital that we preserve our own independent nuclear deterrent as protection against nuclear blackmail ; it is equally important that we take every possible step — as we are doing — to ensure that the process of rapid political change , and the change of authority that has taken place in what was the Soviet Union , do not lead to a more dangerous situation in regard to the present control and authority over nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | This may point the way in regard to the original problem . |
| 7 | Although it rejected a proposal by Tsongas to cap federal spending and increase petrol taxes , the platform accepted a " no pain no gain " position in regard to the rising federal budget deficit , warning that its reduction could be achieved only through " fair and shared sacrifice of all Americans for the common good " . |