Example sentences of "as for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for recent patterns of American buying , it is less the pound/dollar ratio and Gulf War political uncertainties , than general economic factors . |
| 2 | They can be the same type of door as for hinged doors , or you could make your own doors from hardboard on a timber frame . |
| 3 | In England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland , where that is no longer the case , the age of consent for male homosexual behaviour in private is 21 and not 16 as for heterosexual relationships . |
| 4 | The Government propose to Brussels that the same upper limits be set on dosages of dietary supplements for ordinary consumers buying off the shelves as for professional practitioners of alternative medicine , even though such practitioners may have good reasons for recommending higher doses to their patients . |
| 5 | As for real customers , VISystems cites Motorola itself as ready to throw out some thirty IBM mainframes , says it has an ISV that has downsized 12 sites onto Data General kit , and in the UK has a production user in the shape of Trafalgar House Construction , which has committed the heinous sin ( in the eyes of IBM ) of transferring its 200 plus existing TP applications from an IBM mainframe to an RS/6000 . |
| 6 | For the candidate the same basic rules of selling yourself apply as for one-to-one interviews . |
| 7 | Many of the clubs cater for novices as well as for established performers . |
| 8 | As for rural railways and other parts of the subsidised railway , the Government have made it abundantly clear that investment will go ahead . |
| 9 | Bodmin and Wenford Railway General Manager Keith Searle commented : ‘ We are pleased at the opportunity this now gives us to expand to become one of this country 's premier preserved railways , as well as for consequential benefits to the environment and the local economy . |
| 10 | The Greeks favoured silver vessels as votive offerings , and the Romans for private ostentation as well as for diplomatic gifts intended to disarm barbarian princes ( fig.22 ) . |
| 11 | As for reforming males , it 's just the joke of the year . ’ |
| 12 | Part-time courses which are available for similar periods of study as for full-time courses usually involve an average of eight hours attendance at college each week , predominantly on a ‘ day release ’ basis . |
| 13 | Markets already exist for ‘ Melinar ’ PET in wide-mouth containers for foodstuffs and cosmetics as well as for oven-to-table containers for foodstuffs [ made from thermoformed crystalline , opaque ‘ Melinar ’ foil ] . |
| 14 | If the customer base is broadly the same as for existing products , then the credit manager should be able to arrive at a reasonable assessment of these factors . |
| 15 | As for existing clients , the view is that amid the mountain of junk mail specialised newsletters would be lost , if not be a deterrent . |
| 16 | It is felt that this is too small a sample to give a meaningful impact weighting factor derived in this manner , since , if the rejection figure for thesis-derived papers is the same as for all papers , this would only amount to two or three papers ( 27% of 10% ) . |
| 17 | It is felt that this is too small a sample to give a meaningful impact weighting factor derived in this manner , since , if the rejection figure for thesis-derived papers is the same as for all papers , this would only amount to two or three papers ( 27% of 10% ) . |
| 18 | But as for all things in life , moderation is the key-word . |
| 19 | For Jacqueline , as for all artists , it is the work itself that remains the point of departure and intrigue . |
| 20 | Expectations need to be appropriately set and as high for bilingual pupils as for all others . |
| 21 | This was the same proportion as for all households . |
| 22 | ‘ The world 's hunger for bulk consumer products like plastics and fibres — as well as for all sorts of industrial chemical intermediates — will not go away . ’ |
| 23 | For instance , the college day for life preparation students is the same length as for other students . |
| 24 | The new top-up loan provides additional resources for those groups as well as for other students . |
| 25 | As for other jurists , six out of eleven cases seem to be interpolated , so we are left with five , one of Pomponius and four of Paul . |
| 26 | The other requirements for keeping leather corals , apart from current and light , are much the same as for other coelenterates ; well-filtered water with phosphate and nitrate at levels as low as possible and no fish that would eat or damage them . |
| 27 | As for other occupants , how would they know who else had lived there ? |
| 28 | For a proportion of students — as for other groupings of adults — the partner will be a same-sex partner . |
| 29 | Problems of authenticity are not so great or modern art as for other periods , even if a gifted forger like the painter Elmir de Horty can fool some of the people for some of the time . |
| 30 | We should try to give the reason ( without , of course , assuming that the basis for their unacceptability will be the same as for other groups which share the exclusion from predicative position ) . |