Example sentences of "with respect to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 With respect to history , the vacillations of Foucault 's writing enact the impossibility of its simultaneous finitude and infinitude , the irresolvable conflict between history as meaning and history as difference , between history as a teleology and eschatology and history as the event , as finitude and mortality .
2 According to Goffmann , what lends credibility to our concepts of personal self is the recognition of certain rules or conventions which limit the claims we can expect to be acknowledged with respect to freedom from untoward threat , interference and so forth .
3 It represents the point at which the inflexion points on the curve merge , and so it is the temperature where the first , second , and third derivatives of the Gibbs free energy with respect to mole fraction are zero .
4 For example , Chomsky has elegantly argued that syntax is logically prior to phonology , in that phonological description requires reference to syntactic categories , but not vice versa ; syntax is thus autonomous with respect to phonology , and phonology ( non-autonomous with respect to syntax ) can be envisaged as taking a syntactic input , on the basis of which phonological representations can be built up .
5 With respect to BACKUP , the safest way to handle the use of pseudo-devices , especially if you may be mixing saves and restores on physical devices and pseudo-devices , is to always place yourself in the [ 000000 ] directory ( whether it physically exists , or is only a notional location , as is the case with a pseudo-device ) and use the syntax [ * … ]
6 The two ears may not react identically with respect to insertion and reinsertion of tubes .
7 The position with respect to anchoring is somewhat different , because it is a universal process .
8 While bees will orientate their dances with respect to gravity in a darkened hive , in bright light , they orientate with respect to the light .
9 If these are painted black , bees orientate their dances with respect to gravity even in bright light .
10 The first foragers to a feeding site were captured and their light-sensitive cells were painted so that when they returned to the hive they orientated their dances with respect to gravity .
11 The dancing bees danced with respect to gravity ; the spectators , whose ocelli were unpainted , interpreted the dance as being with respect to the light bulb .
12 Female danger/power also rested on the fact that women occupied structurally marginal positions ( i.e. neither fully inside nor outside the system , not wholly nature nor culture ) and on the fact that society placed them in interstructural roles ( as wives and daughters ) with respect to alliance-making and linking disparate power groups .
13 In addition to the variables of age , sex and status , a further social variable associated with a speaker 's degree of integration into his close-knit community appears to affect the probability of his being linguistically innovative with respect to choice of vowel variants .
14 The furnishings are of a high standard and show considerable flair in innovative design and good taste with respect to choice of modern materials .
15 The New Testament has a good deal to say with respect to church administration .
16 These methods sections were assessed independently by two reviewers with respect to randomisation ( individual , cluster , or none ) , use of a placebo , loss to follow up , measuring outcome blind to treatment assigned .
17 What is the value of the price index in year two with respect to year one ?
18 In the next few sections I will look at the characteristics of LE as used by the black community , with respect to vocabulary , grammar and accent .
19 With respect to morbidity and mortality , the 1984 Conference adopted recommendations concerning the beneficial effect of healthful childbearing patterns on the health of mothers and their children .
20 In addition to the information with respect to reliability and validity , McCauley and Swisher ( 1984 ) suggest that , for the proper interpretation of test scores , the test user must have information regarding the spread of scores obtained from the standardisation sample .
21 Although these matters may not be particularly important as far as the haematological features are concerned , they certainly are with respect to ventilation .
22 Assets are imperfect substitutes because they possess different characteristics with respect to liquidity , marketability and profitability .
23 In the event of any shortcomings in a document with respect to enterprise content , the subcommittee agreed the following two courses of action : —
24 As will be demonstrated with respect to Orientalism itself , Said can not get out of the Hegelian problematic that he articulates , and indeed tends himself to repeat the very processes that he criticizes .
25 Nozick develops a model which enables him to make primary a principle with respect to entitlement .
26 In addition to providing authorisation , the Department subsequently monitors the performance of companies in particular with respect to solvency margins and has the power to intervene in various ways : it may require a change in investment strategy , prevent the issuing or renewing of policies and of course , ultimately , withdraw authorisation .
27 The directive deals with the same matters with respect to credit institutions that the Fourth and Seventh Company Law Directives dealt with for the generality of companies .
28 Nevertheless , as was also suggested with respect to South Eastern secretarial/office staff , there is the opportunity for computer staff to make a ( semi- ) permanent career out of " temping " , and with the latter group this is made more explicit by the creation of the ( semi ) permanent entity of the company .
29 It is negatively sloped with respect to price because of the inverse relationship between bill prices and rates of discount .
30 The Bundesbank wants national Central Banks to be made independent , and of course for the European Central Bank to operate independently with respect to price stability .
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