Example sentences of "as regards [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court held that this was a breach of the Convention guarantee of free speech , because it would deter journalists from contributing to public discussions of issues affecting the life of the community : " The limits of acceptable criticism are wider as regards a politician as such than as regards a private individual … the former inevitably and knowingly lays himself open to close scrutiny of his every word and deed by both journalists and the public at large , and he must consequently display a greater degree of tolerance . " |
| 2 | This word works well as a hedge as regards a passing topic ( e.g. " this is arguably also the case in Aphra Behn 's other works … |
| 3 | While the information is correct as regards a growing number of employers ' occupational pension schemes , it does not apply to the basic State pension . |
| 4 | The Council considered " that if the challenges of a European Union composed of a larger number of member states are to be met successfully , parallel progress is needed as regards the internal development of the Union and in preparation for membership of other countries " . |
| 5 | As regards the long-term goals of the male and female characters in this story , there is little evidence available . |
| 6 | It means that we can be involved straightaway with patient 's management when they 're admitted to hospitals within the Oxfordshire region , and so decisions can be made between the referring doctors and ourselves as regards the best policy of treatment . |
| 7 | As regards the phenomenal world , the meaningfulness of references to identical particulars presupposes the possibility of logically adequate criteria of re-identification , and such criteria , in turn , can operate only within a unitary spatiotemporal system ; conversely , the idea of such a unitary system presupposes the possibility of particular-identification . |
| 8 | As regards the second point ( the recruitment of agents to the salaried and non-industrial positions ) , the investigations conducted by Goldthorpe ( 1980 ) are of considerable interest . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | While this is true as regards the specific wording of the offence of genocide , it was pointed out in the parliamentary debate relating to the Genocide Bill that almost all the offences included in the Convention were in fact already offences under English law . |
| 11 | As regards the anatomical studies of late times , with very varied utilization of the microscope , and the otherwise greatly improved means of minute structural investigation , I need hardly say that , by them during the last thirty years , great parts of the science of disease have been completely transfigured . |
| 12 | As regards the political system established in Western Europe , based on representative political institutions — parliament , political and philosophical pluralism , the theory of the separation of powers , decentralization , human rights , etc. — that system is in essentials valid and it will be still more effective with a socialist , and not a capitalist , economic foundation . |
| 13 | As regards the political solution , Rance told Pethick-Lawrence , ‘ I 'm playing a lone hand here . ’ |
| 14 | That is , the evident polarisation on the plane of government/organised labour relations was dislocated from a reduction of ‘ class ’ polarisation as regards the political perspectives of an important section of the electorate . |
| 15 | As regards the legal position of some 350,000 Chinese living in Indonesia , it was eventually agreed that China would offer them citizenship , and that those who declined this offer would be granted permanent residency rights by the Indonesian government . |
| 16 | It is anticipated that , as regards the current emergency , personnel will face up to the issues involved and exercise appropriately the functions allocated to their respective age groups . |
| 17 | Coral structures tend to adopt certain recurrent features , both as regards the overall form of reefs and as regards the zonation of reefs . |
| 18 | As regards the attempted reconciliation by Bingham L.J . |
| 19 | In order to do this we will need to know your preferences as regards the alternative structures which are being suggested by the various parties in discussions so far . |
| 20 | As regards the Japanese islands , MacArthur felt it would not be practicable for the United States to keep bases after the signing of a peace treaty . |
| 21 | Although this is a complex area of the law and subject to much speculation as regards the various overlaps between artistic , aesthetic and functional designs , if a design has been made which has some degree of eye-appeal , an application for registration should be made . |
| 22 | As regards the present argument , the law seems to be that a parent or guardian can consent only to treatment which is in his charge 's interest . |
| 23 | As regards the incompetent child , only his parents or legal guardian may speak for him , and then only for as long as he remains under their control or until majority at 18 years of age . |
| 24 | As regards the visual interpretation of each array considered in isolation , Ullman relies on the work of David Marr , who studied the information picked up from the ambient light by the retina , and the image-forming computations performed on it by peripheral levels of the visual system ( Marr 1976 , 1978 , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | The referees have decided to adopt a policy of ‘ suck it and see ’ as regards the new laws . |
| 26 | As regards the first point , I have suggested that the ‘ tertiary sector ’ expansion has increased the heterogeneity of non-manual/industrial positions within the division of labour . |
| 27 | As regards the first set of causes one can point to the conservative/speculative behaviour of British financial institutions ( discussed in chapter 3 ) ; the failure to develop fully the advanced multi-divisional forms of capitalist enterprise ; the continuing low social valuation of ‘ industry ’ relative to the ‘ liberal professions ’ ; and the relative paucity of commercially-relevant research and development . |
| 28 | The epithets " naughty " and " dirty " arise , perhaps reinforcing terms used at an earlier stage as regards the eliminatory functions or inadvertent sexual display . |
| 29 | ‘ You say that you have heard nothing from him — as regards the future marriage , that is ? |
| 30 | Obtaining a patent is a complex , expensive and lengthy process and the services of a patent agent are desirable because the drafting of the application and the specification is extremely important as regards the future scope of the patent . |