Example sentences of "and in [adj] respects " in BNC.

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1 It also depended on the promotion of the belief that free markets are both economically efficient and socially just — and in crucial respects local government stood in the way of such promotion .
2 Conditions , then , were in some respects similar to those of today ; in some respects different , but in ways that do not matter ; and in other respects different in ways that are very significant indeed .
3 He did not think that a state in which a rich majority governed could be properly called a democracy : " suppose a total of one thousand three hundred ; one thousand of these are rich , they give no share in government to the three hundred poor , who also are free men and in other respects like them ; no one would say that these thirteen hundred lived under a democracy . "
4 In some respects it seems to be idiosyncratically determined , and in other respects predictable .
5 They are cast in different , complementary and in many respects equally important roles , the role of replicator and the role of vehicle .
6 Near the sea , though , where water is able to penetrate inland and downwards through joints and cracks , the activity is much more vigorous , and in many respects resembles Vulcanian activity .
7 His two secretaries at the Board became the Under Secretaries , and in many respects the new Office was similar in organization to Offices of the other Secretaries of State .
8 The incident did little harm to Gunn 's career and in many respects endeared him to Scotland fans .
9 At the same time , the curriculum through which all this was to be achieved remained remarkably unexplored and neglected ; and in many respects this in itself was a comment on the nature of the reformers ' aims and aspirations .
10 A special issue on the centenary of the death of Darwin contained articles saying he was right , he was half right and in many respects wrong .
11 Coleridge had not yet evolved his own system , and in many respects his development had run parallel to Wordsworth 's .
12 But Malcolm Morley , although born in England , is an American painter , and in many respects Hockney became one in the 1960s though he 's now living with the French masters in a Côte d'Azur of his own imagining .
13 Radcliffe-Brown was also a functionalist but of a less programmatic sort ; he developed a more sophisticated terminology and theoretical approach , and in many respects improved on Durkheim .
14 Looking back over this period most farm workers view the introduction of the tractor and the combine harvester as representing a decisive break in the hitherto orderly pace of agricultural change — and in many respects this is undoubtedly what has occurred .
15 Although imperial lines , like the Canadian Pacific and the Grand Trunk Pacific in Canada or the Uganda and Cape to Cairo railways in Africa , stole the British headlines since they enhanced so many colonial myths , British investment and railway-building were more considerable and in many respects more potent in the Anglo-American ‘ informal Empire ’ of Latin America .
16 The Mercier portrait is reckoned to be the earliest , and in many respects the most interesting likeness of Handel in London .
17 Finally , and in many respects most crucially , what has been the impact of the GCSE syllabuses in these subjects ?
18 I was fairly ignorant of Third World literature at the outset and in many respects still am .
19 It appeared to be , and in many respects was , an adversarial situation , despite efforts by officers and members not to make it so .
20 History work is wider than National Curriculum History , and in many respects learning at primary level is seamless , rather than compartmentalised .
21 Because fruits have a limited range of presentation possibilities and in many respects mimic one another in attracting birds , the frugivorous avifauna is less diversified than the insectivorous .
22 To the student of the subject , the British Constitution appears complex , confusing , ill defined , and in many respects amorphous .
23 His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions .
24 In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’
25 The document states that Richard Walter Jenkins shall ‘ absolutely renounce and abandon the use of the surname of the parent and shall bear the surname of the adopter and shall be held out to the world and in all respects treated as if he were in fact the child of the adopter ’ .
26 The era of free competition in the capitalist economy is over in all areas and in all respects .
27 In this sense ARC/INFO macros , do , to a certain extent , shield the novice from a bewildering number of options , though such a system is most certainly not conversational and in several respects is very simple as compared with a comprehensive DSS .
28 His lectures and writings played a considerable part in shaping fundamental chemical theory , and in several respects laid the foundations for the theory of valency .
29 This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’
30 The evolutionary sequence for the history of mankind which is sketched out in The German Ideology is patchy and in some respects inconsistent , but the main features emerge clearly .
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