Example sentences of "in [det] [adj] respect " in BNC.

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1 In that final respect , the Healey was like the Cobra , but the Cobra did n't even have external door handles , just simple pulls inside which you reach in to open .
2 Perhaps the swank had been right in that one respect when he jeered at Biff 's diligent efforts in the Scriptory …
3 In that one respect only she had failed her dear friend .
4 because we would not be able to raise it as a shield in that one respect , now if your Lordship tried and then said well alright we stay the counterclaim is a set off , then what would your Lordship be intending to do about the remaining defences to say we 're not allowed defend our claim er at all on the basis of article eighty five will that be
5 He concludes with this paragraph : If religion throughout the ages , and certainly in many parts of the world today , has been used as a weapon for destructive purposes , are we not called to demonstrate that as people of faith we can both live in passionate commitment to our respective tradition and at the same time in compassionate respect for each other and to affirm that the faith commitment of each one is only truly realized when we live in that mutual respect accordingly ?
6 In that last respect , however , they were like practically everyone else on the island , which may in itself be a reason why we should not be quick to decide that their behaviour lacked political significance , and consisted of antics .
7 I welcome the work that the Government have done in that important respect .
8 In another fundamental respect , Marx 's general view is also well borne out .
9 In this latter respect other authors ( e.g. Bok and Dunlop , 1970 ) have pointed out that labour movements in continental Europe developed against the backdrop and carry-over of a feudalistic tradition of an earlier age that denied workers access to economic opportunity or political power , and which engendered a feeling of isolation and oppression .
10 In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria .
11 What I thought was : ‘ You are very like your brother in this one respect , my friend .
12 In the classic experimental design a control group would be used which was as alike in all respects to the experimental group ( the latter being , in this example , the workers who experienced the new managerial style ) , save in this one respect ; only the experimental group is subjected to the independent variable .
13 In this important respect , the Institute 's exams are in a stronger position than ever before , following the agreement of the firms with the largest numbers of students to provide nominees to examining positions on a planned basis ; and smaller firms have expressed support as well .
14 Is it right that there should be two classes of old people in this important respect ?
15 In this important respect , and in common with more formal economic analysis , her study fails to appreciate the need to gain a much fuller understanding of microeconomic behaviour ; something which can be done only through detailed investigation of individual businesses and economic institutions [ Major , 1979 ] .
16 The Treaty of Rome indeed differs from other international treaties in this important respect : it requires that its provisions , and those made by amendments to it ( such as the Single European Act and the Maastricht Treaty ) , as well as all the regulations issued by the institutions which it establishes , be incorporated directly into the legal systems of the Member States .
17 In other words , if every health authority performed as well as the best in this important respect , there would be an immense increase in the amount of day-care surgery that could be undertaken .
18 Papegaaij and Schubert ( 1988 : 182 ) explain that the main advantage of extraposition is that it ‘ provides an escape to a higher and , in this particular respect , freer level ’ when word order is relatively fixed at clause level .
19 In doing so they appear to have been guilty of idealizing the origins and early development of an institution which was in later times vastly important but which was , at least in this particular respect , rather less than ideal .
20 I 'm sure you know that the Bank of England the Bank of England have made a very strong point that on balance there should be more non-executive directors than executive directors in the company and , er it is felt very strongly that to get a good mix of non-executive directors really does protect the shareholders ' interests and , er I think we 're very much following the lead , er , of the Bank of , of England , erm , in this particular respect .
21 In this particular respect Morse ( suggesting the likelihood of the Botley Road area ) had got things quite wrong , for it was at the Hertz ‘ Rent-a-Car ’ offices at the top of the Woodstock Road where Dixon had finally spotted the name he was looking for with all the excitement of a young angler just hooking a heavyweight pike .
22 In this last respect , American experience is significantly different ; writers-in-residence are common on campuses as teachers of creative writing , though literary theorists show little interest in what is being written .
23 In the food manufacturing and processing and electronics and electrical goods companies , where unions were relatively weaker , there were more likely to be differences between regular and temporary workers in this last respect .
24 In this last respect , though in no other , we were probably luckier than the other people , many of whom became ( and remain ) colleagues and friends , and for whom comparable educational problems opened up career opportunities very similar to ours .
25 This effectively gives a much smaller ‘ weight ’ to reference resolution than to other parts of the system ; two interpretations that differ only in the referents they assign to anaphors will be much closer together in the sequence of structures presented to the plausibility checker than two interpretations that differ only in some other respect , such as an alternation of word senses .
26 One is even tempted to propound a theorem to cope with the bewildering thickets of paradox obstructing every path , namely : every attempt to ameliorate nuclear doctrine in one respect produces an equal and opposite effect in some other respect .
27 In some other respects it relied on centuries of evolution of peasant society .
28 The Havelok text ( Bodleian MS Laud Misc 108 ) is one of those sources that has been traditionally thought to be the work of an Anglo-Norman scribe ( Sisam , 1915 ) on the grounds that the spelling is highly variable in the respects specified by Skeat and indeed in some other respects also .
29 But , however sketchy or plain foolish the history and social anthropology might be , the existence of long-term degeneration , in some key respects at least , commanded widespread assent .
30 The CPSU could have been considered analogous to a liberal democratic party in some limited respects .
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