Example sentences of "as for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the residents , they know just where they like to be and that 's down the local pub . |
| 2 | As for the newspapers ' verdict on his conduct , that was never in doubt . |
| 3 | So if you did n't really want to embark on that treatment we again , use the waxing treatment as for the eyebrows , we use ca ho , hot wax on the area that you need , on the chin , on the upper lip . |
| 4 | As for the women , he said , they suffered from the same sort of things — depression and sometimes guilt . |
| 5 | As for the women , the government seems not to regard them as human beings at all , unless as in the days of the British Empire the fact that they are women can be used to deny them basic rights or torture them in special ways . |
| 6 | As for the women — well , thanks , ladies . |
| 7 | As for the rulers of conservative , anti-bourgeois and anti-liberal regimes in Europe , whether in Vienna , Berlin or St Petersburg , they recognised , however reluctantly , that the alternative to capitalist economic development was backwardness , and consequent weakness . |
| 8 | And Garland had answered : ‘ I like it as it is , and as for the windows , that muck is a natural filter for the light and if any interfering bastard ever cleaned 'em I 'd twist his credentials off . ’ |
| 9 | As for the provisions in the social chapter , that would be a discipline that would reduce jobs . |
| 10 | It is clear , however , that the subject for the French décadents , as well as for the naturalists and impressionists , was the culture of the popular classes . |
| 11 | As for the incomers , about 108 freemen ( 47·2 per cent ) were immigrants who came from within a 20-mile radius , 75 ( 29·3 per cent ) came from between 20 and 50 miles and 73 ( 28·5 per cent ) came from further afield . |
| 12 | As for the proposals contained in ’ Escaping the Debt Trap ’ — the hon. Gentleman kindly sent me a copy — it will not surprise him if I do not agree with all of them . |
| 13 | As for the clothes , money and jewellery sported by many locals , they came from the gruesome supply of drowned bodies that were washed ashore each morning on the high tide . |
| 14 | As for the effects of Polly Peck 's troubles on Vestel , Karan claimed they were purely psychological . |
| 15 | As for the effects of the Act , an overall assessment of its impact on the use of custody will have to wait until Chapter 10 because of the need to deal also with the provisions relating to community penalties and parole . |
| 16 | As for the cliffs , they 're very slippery . ’ |
| 17 | As for the criteria for granting postgraduate awards , postgraduate study and research are academically demanding and candidates should be selected by competition to ensure that the resources available are used as effectively as possible . |
| 18 | As for the letters of confirmation and negotiating the arrangements of the loan , Feigen states that in her sworn depositions Hildenbrand admitted that she had forged the museum director 's agreement regarding the loan , the letterhead having been taken off a business card and the signature of the director having been forged . |
| 19 | As for the letters to the museum itself and the director , Feigen says that they were apparently intercepted and sent on to Hildenbrand : ‘ When we contacted the museum to ask why payment had not been forthcoming , they had never heard of us ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ As for the matters on the pitch , I think it 's a bit of a coincidence we were playing Southampton when this happened . |
| 21 | As for the Gascons , they are gossipy , licentious , and poorly dressed ; although they eat and drink far too much they do n't sit at table but squat around a fire ; they all share the same cup and when they go to sleep they all share the same rotting straw , master and mistress , servants and all . |
| 22 | Preparations are then made in the same way as for the embryos recovered directly from the mother . |
| 23 | As for the problems , I often did n't know the answers myself ’ . |
| 24 | As for the others , there 's a hard core who attend virtually all the Circle 's functions ; I 've seen them many times over the years . |
| 25 | As for the others , avoiding them had presented no problems . |
| 26 | As for the others : we 've trained hard for them and we think we have a good chance in the swimming . |
| 27 | But as for the others , I do n't know . |
| 28 | She did not fear the rats ; a certain set of mind would keep them away from her in small furry terror , and as for the police-gangs , she could be awake and away before ever they reached her . |
| 29 | The furniture is neither splendid nor plentiful ; as for the carpets and the curtains , the former are threadbare and the latter faded . |
| 30 | As for the investors ' representatives , businessman John Dyer and his committee at BCIG and Antony Gold and David Pine at Alexander Tatham yesterday represented almost the end of a daily nightmare . |