Example sentences of "[adj] as regard [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article is unmarked as regards spatio-temporal relations ; so the function of deictic reference is to set up a continual spatial , temporal and subjective opposition between proximal and distal relations . |
| 2 | Antislavery thus had a further institutional base but it was thereby also vulnerable as regards united action to the outbreak of warfare amongst religious parties . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hence if shares are given a preferential dividend they are presumed to be non-participating as regards further dividends , and if they are given a preferential right to a return of capital they are presumed to be non-participating in surplus assets . |
| 5 | Particular instances are section 33 of Taxes Management Act 1970 as regards overpaid income tax , corporation tax , capital gains tax and petroleum revenue tax ; section 24 of the Finance Act 1989 as regards value added tax ; section 29 of the Finance Act 1989 as regards excise duty and car tax ; section 241 of the Capital Transfer Tax Act 1984 as regards inheritance tax ; and section 13(4) of the Stamp Act 1891 ( 54 & 55 Vict. c. 39 ) as regards stamp duty . |
| 6 | A 1978 law already protected members of the security forces from being investigated for human rights abuses , and the then President , Augusto Pinochet , had stated in late 1989 as regards human rights that " the day one of my men is touched , the state of law is over " . |
| 7 | ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place of work under the employer 's control , the maintenance of it in a condition that is safe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of means of access to and egress from it that are safe and without such risks . ’ |