Example sentences of "with a [adj] disregard for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when in action he was the perfect fighting machine with a total disregard for his own personal safety . |
| 2 | Barns were supposed to have hay in them — they did in the movies — where the hero could hide while the baddies , with a total disregard for blood poisoning or spread HIV , jabbed a pitchfork in and out like a demented barman trying to get the last maraschino out of the bottle . |
| 3 | In Britain some 4,000 stations have gone out of use since the 1960s , and many of them have vanished altogether — swept away with a callous disregard for our architectural heritage that takes the breath away . |
| 4 | Curfews are broken , drinks are tanned , discos are dismantled , golden opportunities are recklessly squandered , and matches are won and lost with a callous disregard for the nation and its emotional stability . |
| 5 | The earliest form of printed book illustration was the woodcut , and the art , with varying fortunes , has survived to the present day , so that the collector has more than five centuries to survey and a range of skill , from the superb work of Albrecht Dürer ( 1481–1504 ) to the charming absurdities of the chapbook printers , who inserted the same cuts in different publications with a reckless disregard for subject and appropriateness . |
| 6 | She hurtled down the north-west turret staircase with a reckless disregard for life and limb , and emerged at the point where she had entered the hall earlier that night — was it only hours ago ? |
| 7 | Cold , claustrophobic rhythms stripped of humanity and humour and performed with a complete disregard for such niceties as , well , performance , LFO 's brief appearance was not for the faint-hearted . |
| 8 | But the others evidently had not , or Rufus had not , walking jauntily and with swinging stride across the tarmac , his stethoscope bobbing up and down , letting himself into the main hospital block , Shiva later saw , by a door marked ‘ Private ’ , which he slammed behind him with a fine disregard for the notices exhorting all to silence . |
| 9 | With a fine disregard for what was happening across the Channel , the Attlee government convinced itself and others that the British welfare state was unique in the world — to be deeply startled in the 1950s by the news that many continental neighbours had a more generous provision of social welfare than the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | WITH a fine disregard for the dozen Belgian paracommandos stationed on the roof of the United Nations headquarters in Kismayu , a team of Somalis last week chipped a hole in the compound wall and pinched a generator . |
| 11 | Small wonder , then , that a lot of resentment and guilt rub off on the social worker himself or herself ; and that , when opportunity arises for public shouts of , " No better than we are ! " , it may be seized upon with a fine disregard for logic in expiation of sins which might be regarded in others as excusable . |
| 12 | With a fine disregard for geography she decided that if the Germans came by sea they would land at the Pier Head . |
| 13 | They instigated a reign of terror in London 's East End , controlling their manor with a ruthless disregard for others . |