Example sentences of "in retrospect [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In retrospect we did make some questionable decisions , ’ Mr Warren told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 2 | Such incidents were not always so funny at the time , though , in retrospect we always had a good laugh . |
| 3 | Economics was still largely British , though in retrospect we may detect major analytical work in France , Italy and Austria . |
| 4 | I mean in , in , in retrospect they probably could 've achieved it because they , they got the military er they , they , they did get the military security and you probably could 've afforded actually to , to mobilize the peasants through land reform . |
| 5 | In retrospect they were predators moving in to destroy a site . |
| 6 | In retrospect she says the most important thing is for parents to build in some kind of motivation or prospect that means something to their offspring . |
| 7 | In retrospect she had mixed feelings about it . |
| 8 | In retrospect she could see that quite plainly . |
| 9 | Ramsey went out of his years at school with a sense of contentment which in retrospect he knew to be a veneer . |
| 10 | In retrospect he says the YP learned to compete with the new generation of respected photographic newspapers such as The Independent . |
| 11 | It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time . |
| 12 | Whereas Foucault was inclined to remark that in retrospect he considered that all his work had been about power , it seems almost equally possible that his analyses of power constitute a continuing meditation on the phantasm . |
| 13 | In retrospect he finds it extraordinary that , with all the drinking he did , Philby was able to maintain his double life . |
| 14 | In retrospect he said that he felt that the review had been a good thing for the department . |
| 15 | Have you ever tried to reach a summit when in retrospect you 've realised that the conditions were too dangerous ? |
| 16 | … And at times in retrospect you wish you had taken a certain stat , because it turns out that the whole thing has boiled up , completely beyond what you know it to be , but it 's become political and the authority is being attacked and the chiefs ca n't defend it and say , ‘ OK . |
| 17 | ‘ I must admit I thought that in retrospect you might resent what happened between us last night . ’ |
| 18 | There 's a lot to be said for an up-market Scottish education but in retrospect you can come away with some pernicious ideas , particularly the idea that thought is superior to action . |
| 19 | In retrospect it seems extraordinary that some of these could be prescribed in the first place . |
| 20 | In retrospect it is clear that O'Neill was in an impossible situation . |
| 21 | At the time I was surprised by the information ; yet in retrospect it struck me that this , above everything else , was what had meant most to him during that afternoon 's work . |
| 22 | In retrospect it can be seen that the most fatal blunder of the campaign was John Smith 's Budget — proclaimed at the time as ‘ an unparalleled act of honesty by any opposition party going into an election ’ . |
| 23 | Wearying though the journey had been at the time — even humiliating in respect of his being drawn in a litter — in retrospect it seemed full of excitement , a time when one knew not what would happen next or what lay around the next corner . |
| 24 | In retrospect it is quite evident that this was a doomed endeavour . |
| 25 | In retrospect it is clear that the rejection of her work merely deepened her anxiety and revealed the beginnings of a persecution complex . |
| 26 | Although the meeting led to an immediate increase in recruitment , the BUF lost the propaganda war concerning responsibility for the violence associated with the occasion , and in retrospect it marked the turning-point in the fortunes of the movement . |
| 27 | Although I hated every moment of it , and found the task unbelievably difficult , in retrospect it was a marvellous learning ground . |
| 28 | In retrospect it seems obvious to say that the laying of burr veneers onto any substrate is temperature sensitive but that is being wise after the event . |
| 29 | In retrospect it looks odd that such a massive Conservative majority should have sustained such an ineffective ex-Labour Prime Minster for so long . |
| 30 | In retrospect it may seem that the trend was already irresistible — the First World War certainly made it so — but who is to say that a positive imperial policy pursued energetically in 1902 or 1912 was inevitably doomed to failure ? |