Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice a great deal of discretion is exercised by the Revenue with regard to this section , but to avoid an unexpected tax liability in relation to the transfer by the husband of the former matrimonial home to the wife the husband is well advised to consider making his election within the two-year period . |
| 2 | The paper was seen as constituting ‘ guidance for local education authorities ’ and the ministers proposed to inform themselves in due course about the action taken by LEAs with regard to that guidance . |
| 3 | She too exhibits both a fascination and a scepticism with regard to structuralist theories of the text , manifest in Thru as a healthy mistrust of theory whenever it becomes over-systematic . |
| 4 | Bona fide NVOCC 's , on the other hand , feel that they operate at a competitive disadvantage with regard to unscrupulous NVOCC 's which seem able to disregard the 1984 Shipping Act with impunity . |
| 5 | ‘ He gave us an indication with regard to certain astrological things that are going on … if these things came to pass , we 're talking in terms of days . ’ |
| 6 | The agents ' particulars may give some indication with regard to this . |
| 7 | Having established my personal feelings about the current political situation and the changes resulting from the GERBIL , it is now necessary to pay attention to present practice with regard to special needs in the primary school . |
| 8 | The general rule with regard to these provisions might be said to be that the settlor will not avoid tax on the income which arises from the capital which he has settled unless he and his wife are excluded from all possible benefit . |
| 9 | Recent attention has also been given to the diabetic with regard to ethnic differences in serum lipid levels which have been observed in the non-diabetic population . |
| 10 | But the monks of the later date believed that Archbishop Becket had intended to confirm , but had been prevented by his death from confirming , their monastic privileges with regard to many matters such as their rights in the consecration of bishops , in the appointment and dismissal of monastic officers , in the distribution of chrism and holy oil for the whole province , in the receipt of various revenues from the Canterbury manors , and the prohibition of any future move of the archbishopric from Canterbury . |
| 11 | Solicitors are therefore advised to await confirmation of cover before taking any action with regard to related proceedings . |
| 12 | Churchill was emphatic in saying that ‘ boy labour ’ would be dealt with in conjunction with education authorities ‘ because we have no intention of allowing the commercial side to override the educational side in regard to young people ’ . |
| 13 | I know of no surreptitious exercise being carried out by my Department in regard to private taxi firms in Belfast . |
| 14 | This seems to be precisely what is lacking on Tyneside with regard to all aspects of marine manufacturing . |
| 15 | Once the elements in the topic framework and the interrelationships between them have been identified , the analyst has some basis for making judgements of relevance with regard to conversational contributions . |
| 16 | Francis Pym , a sceptic with regard to economic strategy , was sacked . |
| 17 | There is now much greater flexibility with regard to educational placements for visually handicapped children and less adherence to the use of terms which define children in categories based on medical criteria . |
| 18 | First , to the structural changes and pressures which caused ‘ Big Bang ’ ; secondly , to the need for , and the broad principles of , the new regulatory framework ; and lastly , to the increased potential for abuse with regard to both conflicts of duty and interest resulting from the merging together of financial intermediaries , especially banks and securities houses , under the one corporate roof , or conglomerate grouping . |
| 19 | Each has particular duties with regard to preventive work , investigations , monitoring and support . |
| 20 | The term " trade description " is defined comprehensively in s2(1) as follows : A trade description is an indication , direct or indirect , and by whatever means given , of any of the following matters with regard to any goods or part of goods , that is to say , ( a ) quantity , size of gauge ; ( b ) method of manufacture , production , processing or reconditioning ; ( c ) composition ; ( d ) fitness of purpose , strength , performance , behaviour or accuracy ; ( e ) any physical characteristics not included in the preceding paragraphs ; ( f ) testing by any person and results thereof ; ( g ) approval by any person or conformity with a type approved by any person ; ( h ) place or date of manufacture , production , processing or reconditioning ; ( i ) person by whom manufactured , produced , processed or reconditioned ; ( j ) other history , including previous ownership or use . |
| 21 | It completely failed to influence public opinion when it emerged from its secret society chrysalis in 1939 , and in spite of its extremism and the uncertainties of the law with regard to seditious libel where public order was not threatened , the authorities decided that any move against the group would give it unwanted publicity and might achieve more harm than good . |
| 22 | There has been some doubt about the law with regard to traffic-calming measures other than road humps which has meant that authorities have produced traffic-calming schemes but have been left in some doubt as to whether they could be prosecuted for obstructing the highway . |
| 23 | In mentioning the directive er can I er pause very briefly er Mr Deputy Speaker to apologise to the house that this document was not made available at the draft stage er an unfortunate combination of human error and several failures of communications meant that the select committee was deprived of the opportunity to consider the directive at its draft stage , er I 've noticed the select committee 's report which has been put in the vote office in the usual way and acknowledge the government did not meet its scrutiny obligations with regard to this document in the normal means . |
| 24 | In particular , the project will study a method called the Holt-Winters procedure , and examine ways of choosing smoothing parameters and starting values for the automatic version of the procedure , as well as testing a non-automatic version which allows subjective adjustment in regard to such features as outliers . |
| 25 | The Attorney General of the day ( one Shawcross ) , informed an inquiring MP that ‘ it is not contemplated that any legislation will be necessary to give effect to the terms of this Convention ’ because ‘ I think we are entitled to say that the law of this country has always been in advance of the laws of most other countries in regard to human rights ’ . |
| 26 | so there is this mixture of er of the older element and the younger element which we 've got to sort of marry during this course . |
| 27 | Well now erm what it says here is that you want to sort of talk about possible options for a year out and then relevance of archaeology to career in surveying or land management . |
| 28 | ‘ I want you to know we did n't use any of this nonsense ’ , Koch protested between the titters ; ‘ … you would sort of start down that road and get so self-conscious you could n't do it . ’ |
| 29 | pulls you up do that goes that way , does that goes that way so you 're upside down you see , you 've not only got weight and gravity pulling you down you 've also got the thrust of the engine pulling you down as well , and the only way the helicopters going to be able to do it is by getting enough height so they can sort of drop like that and they start dropping and they can just pull it back |
| 30 | Where the road is , you sh- , you should sort of come out like that and the main road sort of goes round like that and you need to sort of go like that . |