Example sentences of "[prep] respect to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar puzzles arise with respect to all animal species . |
| 2 | That is to say , the spin is either " up " or " down " with respect to that direction and it can never be a bit " sideways ' . |
| 3 | It is as if a strong relationship between the network structure of a given group and choice of phonetic realization of a particular vowel disqualifies that group from fulfilling the role of innovators with respect to that vowel . |
| 4 | The ICJ statement of April 14 cited Resolution 748 ( which had been approved after the Libyan submission had first been made to the ICJ ) and said that obligations of the various parties with respect to that resolution " prevail over their obligations under any other international agreement " . |
| 5 | Section 10(3) ( b ) goes further : ( b ) any failure to do more in relation to any matter than is required by — ( i ) any safety regulations imposing requirements with respect to that matter ; ( ii ) any standards if safety approved for the purposes of this subsection by or under any such regulations and imposing requirements with respect to that matter ; ( iii ) any provision of any enactment or subordinate legislation imposing such requirements with respect to that matter as are designated for the purposes of this subsection by any such regulations . |
| 6 | Section 10(3) ( b ) goes further : ( b ) any failure to do more in relation to any matter than is required by — ( i ) any safety regulations imposing requirements with respect to that matter ; ( ii ) any standards if safety approved for the purposes of this subsection by or under any such regulations and imposing requirements with respect to that matter ; ( iii ) any provision of any enactment or subordinate legislation imposing such requirements with respect to that matter as are designated for the purposes of this subsection by any such regulations . |
| 7 | Section 10(3) ( b ) goes further : ( b ) any failure to do more in relation to any matter than is required by — ( i ) any safety regulations imposing requirements with respect to that matter ; ( ii ) any standards if safety approved for the purposes of this subsection by or under any such regulations and imposing requirements with respect to that matter ; ( iii ) any provision of any enactment or subordinate legislation imposing such requirements with respect to that matter as are designated for the purposes of this subsection by any such regulations . |
| 8 | So not only is it unwise to try to group patients , in terms of syndromes , it is not even possible to group them in terms of symptoms — that is , even a set of patients all showing the same symptom may not be homogeneous even with respect to that symptom . |
| 9 | With respect to each type of linguistic equality , two other important questions are : |
| 10 | Further , if the same persons are entitled as trustees ‘ to different deposits ’ under different trusts , they are treated as a separate and distinct body with respect to each trust . |
| 11 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 12 | Hence , the two parts of the protein could move independently with respect to each other providing CytR with the possibility to interact with binding sites with different structures and cAMP-CRP complexes at varying distances . |
| 13 | The times measured by these different clocks would agree almost exactly if they were moving slowly with respect to each other — but the times measured by different clocks would differ significantly if the clocks were moving at high speed . |
| 14 | This in turn raises subsidiary questions such as the recruitment and length of tenure of members of the executive and the assembly , their formal and informal sources of power with respect to each other , and wider issues such as political traditions , especially those of the party system . |
| 15 | Suppose that the two bodies in Figure 6.2 ( a ) are not in synchronous rotation with respect to each other . |
| 16 | The ions and electrons in the wind move with respect to each other in such a way that they constitute electric currents which sustain a magnetic field : it is not the outward motion of the wind as a whole which generates the field . |
| 17 | Arguments of this kind normally started from the assumption that the powers of Europe were still in a ‘ state of nature ’ with respect to each other and that each of them was engaged , consciously or not , in a ceaseless struggle to increase its influence at the expense of its neighbours . |
| 18 | The accommodation model deals with the adjustments which speakers make with respect to each other in a particular encounter , but it can not explain the " base line " of behaviour which each individual brings to that encounter , i.e. the speaker 's own norm , which is itself somehow related to the community 's norm . |
| 19 | One reason is that the lithosphere is not divided into small discrete blocks able to move freely up and down with respect to each other . |
| 20 | This discrepancy could be explained if North America and Europe had been moving with respect to each other as well as with respect to the magnetic pole . |
| 21 | One difficulty is that there is evidence indicating that hot spots can migrate with respect to each other at velocities of up to 20 mm a k This means that both hot spots can move under ‘ stationary ’ lithosphere and that the lack of motion of the African Plate is thrown into doubt because its past positions have been in part determined with respect to a reference frame of supposedly fixed hot spots . |
| 22 | First , the fact that the ‘ needs ’ of accumulation and those of legitimation may be contradictory or confused , both internally and with respect to each other , gives an independent role to the political sphere in the formation of policy . |
| 23 | Allen , the Vice President , stated that classifications as high , medium or low were then made with respect to each axis on the basis of collective judgement by corporate management . |
| 24 | what would count as high , medium or low with respect to each criterion , and |
| 25 | Assuming , on facts such as those in Bartlett , that the directors have sufficiently researched a project , it is not evident how a court could determine whether the expected profits justify the risks involved , and this is likely to be the case with respect to much business decision making . |
| 26 | most planation surfaces are or have been graded with respect to some base elevation , usually sea level , but often to an endorheic basin or to a climatic control above sea level ; |
| 27 | While these descriptions of the semantic value of to + infinitive are too specific to be adequate characterizations of the potential meanings involved here ( in fact they correspond to actual meanings of the construction in particular contexts ) , they are nevertheless faithful reflections of the potential meaning of to and of the fact that the latter always evokes the bare infinitive 's event as an after-position with respect to some position before its realization . |
| 28 | In this context , the word ‘ conception ’ refers to an idea that is novel with respect to some frame of reference ( individual , departmental , organizational , or all accumulated knowledge ) ; the word ‘ invention ’ applies to any novel idea that is transformed into reality ; and the word ‘ exploitation ’ refers to getting the most out of an invention . |
| 29 | It has been seen that the to preceding the infinitive is the sign that the event expressed by means of the infinitive is represented as posteriorized in time with respect to some point of reference . |
| 30 | They do not help in proving a program correct with respect to some specification expressed in terms of a more abstract description of its intended behaviour . |