Example sentences of "in [det] respects [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer young myself , I feel as if in some respects I was never young . |
| 2 | In many respects he was the archetype of the ‘ patriots ’ and ‘ public men ’ who played a crucial political role as spokesmen for their localities and ‘ the country ’ in the years preceding the civil war . |
| 3 | And yet in many respects it was just the same kind of Christmas that she and her family had always known back home in Scotland . |
| 4 | In many respects it was a compulsive and unexpected decision which flew in the face of other better offers . |
| 5 | In most respects it was human in shape , but gigantic in stature , and there seemed nothing of the human being in the way it suddenly paced forward from the trees . |
| 6 | Yet in both respects he was notable for a quicksilver opportunism of mind , adapting his arguments to the circumstances of the hour . |