Example sentences of "regard [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 2 | Now those critics have been joined by what entrenched IRFU committeemen may regard as the Enemy Within . |
| 3 | She was embarking on what she would always regard as the pleasantest years of her life . |
| 4 | To say what it ought to be would be to express attitudes of his own , which he does not regard as the task of the kind of philosopher like himself who is , in his professional work , trying to understand ethical discussion rather than to participate in it . |
| 5 | All these levels may be seen as controlled by the relationship of the people involved in the discourse , which we may regard as the highest level . |
| 6 | There is no very compelling reason , however , why foreseeability should not be utilised as the test of remoteness in cases where it is irrelevant to the initial determination of liability : ‘ granted that an escape takes place , albeit unforeseeably , what would a reasonable man regard as the foreseeable consequences of such an escape ? ’ |
| 7 | The combination of such marked terms with a widespread use of word play is what we can regard as the typical exploitation of language in the French fabliaux . |
| 8 | But Madam Deputy Speaker , these order do n't pay any attention to a number of matters in what I would regard as the public interest and whilst the minister as I say , has quite rightly paid tribute to professional organisations involved in this process , we must never forget that we 're here to represent the public interest and not just er er specific professional interests that may be relevant in each case and indeed in the light of what has happened in this field of enforcement er over the last two years , the minister must be aware that the public are requiring higher standards of commercial probity . |
| 9 | Well each has a particular history erm each has a particular culture and pattern of doing things , structure of government as I 've mentioned but also of course we have common interests so in foreign policy we sometimes draw differences between what we would regard as the direct interests of each state and what we can call common interests of mankind . |
| 10 | Except that ( and this is decisive in regard to the situation of the one-idea painter ) his format was private — almost , one might say , the framework of another self , or of himself in another form — and unavailable to others . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | But Durkheim , Eliot noted , did not attribute the origin of religion to wonder or to speculation , but saw in mythology only the savage 's attempt to rationalize and justify his religious practices , ‘ in regard to the true origin of which he is as much in the dark as the scientific investigator ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | WITH regard to the ambulance dispute , the Minister frequently says that they should accept the 6 ½ per cent , which has been accepted by other health service unions . |
| 25 | The court 's powers in regard to the protection and custody of children are constantly revised by Parliament , as for example in the substantial Family Law Act 1986 and the Children Act 1989 . |
| 26 | But it remains perfectly understandable , both in terms of the development of the larger narrative , and with regard to the situation of the generation for whom it was first compiled . |
| 27 | He was also partly , though not wholly , responsible for the ‘ non-intervention ’ policy which Britain and France pursued with regard to the Spanish Civil War , even though it was being blatantly ignored by Germany , Italy and Russia , and though it denied a legitimate Republican government the right of access to the world market for arms with which to defend itself . |
| 28 | And with regard to the most sacred sacrifice , the whole burnt-offering , Philo analyses the choice of victim in the following way : |
| 29 | The main area of confusion with regard to the Jewish attitude to women concerns the laws of marriage , particularly in respect of menstruation and childbirth . |
| 30 | And if there had been a degree of sympathy with the other defeated peoples — a doubtful claim , it has to be said , particularly with regard to the Poles — in this case ‘ the entire population took the view that England should at all costs be destroyed ’ . |