Example sentences of "with [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amis 's novels have always been full of opinions , and have , I think , become prone to a marked ambiguity of effect , especially with regard to questions of gender and race . |
| 2 | This brings us to the ‘ Catch 22 ’ situation that we , as designer , find ourselves in with regard to conservation bodies . |
| 3 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 4 | Scobie is surely right when , with regard to Let Us Compare Mythologies he says that the title ‘ seems to indicate that Cohen himself regarded the religious sense as the primary one ’ — which in The Spice-Box Of Earth becomes completely explicit and even urgent . |
| 5 | Before we leave this topic , may I repeat the caution with regard to grain direction . |
| 6 | With regard to the debate about c and Doppler shifts in the letters pages , light ( velocity c ) reflected or emitted from a surface moving with velocity v towards an observer appears to be blue shifted , or red shifted in the case of a receding surface . |
| 7 | It is with regard to this principle , but more importantly to the actual facts of persecution , that we urge the support of Labour 's leaders and membership by restoring , this week , a policy commitment to full equality for lesbians and gay men . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The reality is that it is extraordinarily difficult to get any change in these kinds of laws — as the last 30 years of procedural mugging by both sides shows in relation to abortion , and the five-year gestation period of this Bill shows with regard to experimenting . |
| 10 | With regard to this duty , there were no instances in the observational data where policewomen were deliberately sent to deal with injuries to children , for example , or injuries to people in road traffic accidents , functions which senior managers think them very suited to . |
| 11 | Community relations and neighbourhood policing reverses the process of depersonalization , and with regard to the police this encourages them to develop a more subtle set of typifications which categorize the majority of residents in West Belfast as decent , honest , and , at root , friendly . |
| 12 | This is true whether with regard to initial market entry decisions , product positioning or marketing mix decisions ’ . |
| 13 | Internally the value of the rouble decreased seventy-two times with regard to goods during 1922 . |
| 14 | What can be discounted as nonsense on the other hand is the conclusion drawn by a Soviet historian with regard to the Tambov revolt : ‘ In that period the kulaks ’ political banditry became the most important means of struggle by international imperialism , Antonov could not even make contact with subversive elements in Kursk guberniia , let alone London . |
| 15 | Neither they nor the local relief committees were given any remit whatsoever with regard to how food should be dispensed or who was eligible to receive it . |
| 16 | Given the disturbed local conditions , and keen memories of American , British , and other intervention in the Civil War , this suspicious approach was not entirely unwarranted , particularly with regard to the cities of the Middle Volga . |
| 17 | Foreign relief organizations and subsequent students of their work have tended to exaggerate this dichotomy with regard to the Famine , but internal Soviet sources lend credence to the view that the sudden withdrawal of many kinds of domestic relief was premature . |
| 18 | The number of passengers carried was 11.5 million in 1913 , 7 million in 1920 , and 12 million by 1924 : the productivity of river transport rose much faster after 1921 than that of the railways , although many problems had to be overcome , as was seen with regard to the Volga fleet in Chapter 3 . |
| 19 | The hopes with regard to smychka that were current in this period were proved utopian once again . |
| 20 | A similarly timid attitude had to be taken with regard to strikes by ASLEF , the train-drivers ' union , and the bailing out of British Rail . |
| 21 | There were few outcries by settlers , as in France with regard to Indo-China and Algeria , no crisis comparable with the chaotic fate of the former Belgian Congo , no agony approaching that of the United States over Vietnam . |
| 22 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 23 | Francis Pym , a sceptic with regard to economic strategy , was sacked . |
| 24 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 25 | With regard to the Tory hierarchy Salisbury , Balfour , and even the supposedly dirigiste -minded Alfred Milner and Joseph Chamberlain , are seen as staunch anti-collectivists . |
| 26 | On issues like this Coetzee 's sensitivity and grasp of detail are shown to good effect : but with regard to the broader historical significance of these organizations he is less assured , and he leaves untouched some of the more important questions raised by his work . |
| 27 | With regard to marriage , eighteenth century canon law , which recognized marriage based on verbal contract , found itself in conflict with common law , which denied the validity of such marriages as far as property was concerned . |
| 28 | • With regard to thermal comfort ( whether we think our environment is too hot or too cold ) , a particular room temperature might make us feel cold and even shiver in the morning but in the evening the same room temperature will sometimes feel hot and stuffy . |
| 29 | Clearly they are easier ‘ laboratories ’ to reach , and far less dangerous than the poles with regard to climate and the hazards of survival . |
| 30 | It will be recalled that temperature and cortisol show a daily rhythm that is much influenced by the body clock and this suggests , but does not prove , that humans and other primates are very similar with regard to the site of the body clock . |