Example sentences of "as for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the Seventh and Eighth Books ( 1619 and 1638 ) , to say nothing of the Ninth , compiled eight years after the composer 's death , they contain quasi-operatic ballets and experiments ( 11 ballo dell' Ingrate , Tirsi e Clori , Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda ) , declamatory or melodic solos or duets over repeated or varied basses , with or without string ritornelli , elaborate vocal and instrumental concerti , and the simplest solo canzonette . |
| 2 | As for the mid-range competitors , they are often forms-based and tied to a particular 4GL or database . |
| 3 | As for the second , it has long been recognised that successful institutions are distinguished by clear aims . |
| 4 | As for the second , in my own opinion neither Upper Gumtree nor Flokati will win at Winnipeg because Mercer Lorrimore is shipping his great horse premiere by horse-van . ’ |
| 5 | As for the second , we have undermined its apparent logic by approaching from the opposite direction ; what is self-evident is that a person should prefer his reaction in fullest awareness , what would require proof is a claim that the awareness should be from all spatial and temporal but only one personal viewpoint . |
| 6 | As for the second weakness , there is a direct link with the first . |
| 7 | As for the second type of case , something that Kant had to say may again be relevant . |
| 8 | As for the second charge , that democracy , perhaps like British liberty in the nineteenth century , was parasitic upon empire , A.H.M. Jones points out that it continued to operate in the fourth century , after the loss of empire , and , indeed , was if anything more expensive then than before , since it was then that payment for attendance at the assembly was added to payment for other public duties . |
| 9 | The dullness she had felt in her exhaustion became a kind of sickness now , as for the second time that day she once again flew from her own body and split into two . |
| 10 | As for the second factor , the January 1959 revolution in Cuba irreversibly changed the perceptions of Soviet policy-makers concerning the opportunities available to them in Latin America . |
| 11 | As for the second of those preconditions , whether the act done at the request of the promisor raises an implication of promised remuneration or other return is simply one of the construction of the words of the contract in the circumstances of its making . ’ |
| 12 | As for the second part of my hon. Friend 's supplementary question , I can not anticipate entirely what will happen , but the reduction in mortgage interest rates will obviously have a beneficial effect . |
| 13 | As for the second alleged opt-out , the right hon. Gentleman confuses the distinction between the social dimension of the Community , to which Britain is fully committed — it has implemented all 19 of the directives thus passed — and the so-called social chapter , which deals with employment and labour laws where they are best determined in this country and in this House , and not imposed from outside . |
| 14 | As for the second , ‘ Blondel ’ is decidedly not an Italian name ; moreover , castratos sang in the royal chapel , but rarely on the French stage . |
| 15 | As for the second one your use of rhyme pushes back the frontiers of english literature . |
| 16 | Any new planting was designed to be phased in over a period of years , planting schemes having to take account of the need to create a distinctive landscape for the immediate future as well as for the long term . |
| 17 | As for the six arms of a typical snowflake , this arrangement is related to the shape and electrical charges on the water molecule … |
| 18 | The widespread agreement across the electorate on many issues increases the possibilities for voters to shop around the political parties , as well as for the political parties to attract voters who are not traditional supporters . |
| 19 | As for the political importance of such a capability , this appeared to be of relevance in the short term mainly with respect to the possibility of American adventurism as long as the USSR could not strike effectively against the United States itself . |
| 20 | There should be story-telling and reading for older children as well as for the young . |
| 21 | As for the young people who could breathe new life into village communities like Soudley , they ca n't wait to get out . |
| 22 | And as for the young singers , they certainly gave the design the stamp of approval . |
| 23 | Exactly the same as for the primary addictive disease of Chemical Dependency or any other form of addictive disease . |
| 24 | In exactly the same way as for the primary disease . |
| 25 | As for the Communist Party , the Executive repeated its belief in the complete inadvisability of associating it with the Labour Party in the public eye . |
| 26 | As for the bare infinitive , its use will be explained in terms of the absence of a before/after sequence between the event denoted by the full verb and that denoted by the infinitive . |
| 27 | As for the bare infinitive , a significant generalization concerning its meaning has been arrived at — the notion of coincidence in time between the infinitive and the verb to which it is incident , with the latter being inconceivable as a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |
| 28 | As for the bare infinitive , it can be shown that in all of its uses it implies — as it does in exclamations — that the extra-verbal support 's place in time can not be conceived as a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |
| 29 | As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well . |
| 30 | As for the marital rape exemption itself , there was little in the way of judicial comment on the matter until Clarence in 1888 . |