Example sentences of "in [adj] respect " in BNC.
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| 1 | In neither respect , however , as recent work on the western and especially the German workforce in the pre-war period demonstrates , was the experience of the Russian working class unique . |
| 2 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 3 | We are aware , in the novels we read , both of an authorial identification with the leading character or the first-person narrator , and of material that might constitute an authorial judgement in that respect : but we do n't know what the verdict is . |
| 4 | I mean , radio work classes helped a lot in that respect . |
| 5 | In that respect , Willy Russell has accomplished a considerably trickier feat than Dame Edna : his Shirley Valentine is a one-woman show in which the show is more important than the one woman . |
| 6 | I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say . |
| 7 | We need to do more work at grass-roots level — possibly , we have been a bit lazy in that respect . ’ |
| 8 | In that respect it differed from the European Convention of Human Rights , to which the United Kingdom adhered in November 1950 under the auspices of the Council of Europe and which came into force in September 1953 . |
| 9 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 10 | He was absolutely right in that respect and I remember him delivering this homily at The Three Tuns and the people receiving it in a rather stony silence because they were not used to being lectured . |
| 11 | He has tried unsuccessfully to persuade government that it should devote a fixed proportion of either GDP or the defence budget ( which has some logic as an idea , since the Meteorological Office is funded through the Ministry of Defence ) to research into global warming ; and failure in that respect has reinforced his view that governments across the world find inexpensive words preferable to expensive actions . |
| 12 | I am guilty in that respect . |
| 13 | I have discharged my duty , she thought , I can not be troubled by my conscience in that respect . |
| 14 | There are so many avenues I want to explore in that respect . |
| 15 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 16 | Kádár was fairly liberal in that respect , so long as a few taboos were respected , especially the role of the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | And yet the problems reason hopes to resolve will not go away and we are little wiser in that respect than when Pascal wrote so perceptively : ‘ Man is neither angel nor brute , and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute . ’ |
| 18 | They are curious fruits in that respect . |
| 19 | But he can attend to individual skills and in that respect , knowing Dusty and his firm opinions as we do , we feel we have recruited a winner . ’ |
| 20 | In that respect , the first-class game also needs strict but sympathetic control from referees , who , above all else , must be consistent . |
| 21 | They are , in that respect , very ordinary ; yet insofar as they represent the interior world of Leapor 's friendships they are distinctive . |
| 22 | Sandra had virtually given up her career to devote herself to the task of keeping house and raising a family , though , in that respect , the relationship did not mature as she had hoped . |
| 23 | Still , they might have had a few more years left in them yet , and so in that respect , it was rather courageous of them to accept Nicholson 's script and Rafelson 's apparent decision that all good things must come to an end . |
| 24 | In that respect , Hollywood had a lot to beat . |
| 25 | Story-telling becomes a means of preserving the narrator 's protean fluidity and in that respect both of the novel 's titles are appropriate . |
| 26 | The Turners ' love-making is directed towards bringing their story into being and , in that respect , represents the counterforce to political totalitarianism which causes deaths and rape throughout the novel . |
| 27 | Emblematic in that respect are the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges which debunk man 's intellectual pretensions and express scepticism about his ability to understand his world . |
| 28 | ‘ But we have already established , have we not , that I am particularly deficient in that respect . ’ |
| 29 | This can not be overemphasized , however , in that respect for life is a cardinal principle of English law . |
| 30 | In that respect ‘ Kennedy ’ was as good as ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ |