Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The Special Commissioners found as a fact that there was no element of bounty with regard to the loan .
2 L'Humanité was now a communist paper , and we find him writing in its columns condemning ‘ The indifference of the proletariat in the metropole with regard to the colonies .
3 Yet this piece has much that is freshly inventive and original , even if these were epithets that , alas , did not readily spring to mind with regard to the performance it received .
4 The main area of confusion with regard to the Jewish attitude to women concerns the laws of marriage , particularly in respect of menstruation and childbirth .
5 No report has fully established the relationship between the gastrin concentration and the trophic effect on the enterochromaffin like cell , however , as neither the minimal nor the maximal effective gastrin concentration with regard to the trophic effect on the enterochromaffin like cell has been assessed .
6 Scepticism with regard to the writer 's power to translate reality into words is taken even further by Guillermo Cabrera Infante in Three Trapped Tigers , where endless word-games , irreverent discussions of literature and parodies of various literary styles all point to an acute sense of the treachery of language .
7 If this causes difficulties for some , Foucault 's scepticism with regard to the tendency to inflate the effect of individual agency can only be compared to the position of many Marxisms in which resistance and revolution are hardly the privilege of the individual as such , but rather of collective class action .
8 Here it is salutary to recall Foucault 's scepticism with regard to the ‘ perilous ease ’ with which politics quickly assumes positions that provide intellectual guarantees rather than specific analyses of particular relations or transformations ; he reacts in the same way to political analogies , and correspondences , or to hasty links with current political practices .
9 Only in later novels does Brooke-Rose draw out the implications of this parallel ( i.e. the ‘ fictionality ’ or ‘ constructedness ’ of lived experience ) , but by pushing the possibility of psychological and ontological wholeness into ever more distant territory in The Sycamore Tree , she demonstrates a growing scepticism with regard to the possibility of achieving it .
10 There was a finding that the contractors were at fault with regard to the old shafts , but it is not clear that they should have realised that their conduct would affect the plaintiff 's land and even if this had been the case there would have been a serious issue at that times whether the defendant was liable for the negligence of his contractor .
11 Practice with regard to the payment of home leave fares varies widely .
12 The point is often raised as to whether a protector who is resident in the United Kingdom , although all the trustees may be resident outside the United Kingdom , could have any adverse effect with regard to the place of residence of the trust .
13 Discussions have taken place with the Shropshire County Council Leisure Services Department with regard to the setting up of a Museum and they have given much helpful advice including a visit to the proposed building .
14 Not satisfied with her cut from the sale of foreign cars , Elena also asserted her prerogative with regard to the distribution of the standard Romanian car , the Dacia 1300 , making party officials pay up for getting a car ahead of others in the queue ( which , as usual in Romania , seemed to grow ceaselessly ) .
15 In the event of any uncertainty with regard to the interpretation of the Articles of this Constitution the decision shall be left to the Executive Committee .
16 It was decided to take no further action with regard to the matter .
17 So what are the implications to be drawn from our study with regard to the implementation of the National Curriculum ?
18 ‘ 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 .
19 To collect statistical information and general intelligence with regard to the trading environment within the Region .
20 The taxpayer 's contention with regard to the exemption under para 10(1) , Sch 6 was also incorrect .
21 At the risk of being accused of being a pedlar of yet another quack remedy I wish to argue that a rights-based theory , derived in part from the influential rights thesis recently put forward by Ronald Dworkin ( Dworkin , 1978 ) , is also capable of addressing some of these difficulties confronted by our orthodox political and constitutional theories , in addition to its more immediate relevance with regard to the specific issue of tax diversion ( Dignan , 1983 ) , and other civil libertarian issues ; though to do so it stands in need of some revision .
22 An additional potential issue with regard to the weight ( and sometimes even ‘ admissibility ’ ) given to computer evidence is the best evidence rule .
23 It appears that there has been some misunderstanding with regard to the sand pit cover .
24 Many considerable advances were taking place in scientific discovery with regard to the structure and composition of the physical world surrounding human beings , and with regard to the physical nature and make-up of human beings themselves .
25 Gastrin was given to rats by continuous subcutaneous infusion through implanted osmotic minipumps in doses covering a wide range of the dose response relationship fog astrin with regard to the trophic effect on the enterochromaffin like cells of the oxyntic mucosa .
26 It should also be borne in mind that the Court will not discount the multiplier with regard to the period between the accident and any ultimate Proof .
27 This independence , however , has no bearing on the central control of the curriculum , since all maintained secondary schools , whatever their source of funding , will be subject to the same law with regard to the curriculum .
28 Treaty and , in particular , articles 7 , 52 and 221 thereof can not be interpreted as depriving the member states of their competence under public international law with regard to the registration of ships .
29 That argument might have some merit only if the requirements laid down by Community law with regard to the exercise by the member states of the powers which they retained with regard to the registration of vessels conflicted with the rules of international law .
30 A basic interest in questions about the meaning and purpose of life ( a ) to challenge secularist assumptions and to appreciate that religious truth-claims can not be easily dismissed ; ( b ) to understand what is distinctive about religion , that is , what it essentially concerns , and be able to distinguish between that and features of it which can vary and perhaps be dispensed with altogether ; ( c ) to realize in particular in how many different ways religion can masquerade as something else , and fail to be what it claims to be ; ( d ) to appreciate the highly controversial nature of religion and of almost everything that is said about it by anyone , whether religious or not ; ( e ) to have a firm grasp of criteria by which to evaluate precise examples and manifestations of religion in practice ; ( f ) to appreciate the force of the question-mark with regard to the ultimate divide between religion and non-religion , and to appreciate the reality of the dilemma , and the ways in which religion needs to be questioned for its failures , negative attitudes , hypocrisy and externalism .
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