Example sentences of "in this respect [pers pn] [am/are] " in BNC.

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1 In this respect they are alike , and like all other works of art .
2 In this respect they are similar to the developing blood cells whose diversity is also controlled by a sequence of signals from the surrounding tissues .
3 In this respect they are the forerunners of the juvenile labour exchanges with their affiliated services of vocational guidance and after-care .
4 In this respect they are probably quite unlike the apes , who have not yet been subjected to evolutionary pressures for rapid acquisition of symbol systems .
5 In this respect they are similar to ethnographic restudies ( p. 92 ) .
6 They treat their women like mules and they fornicate with animals ; indeed in this respect they are so jealous that they go so far as to attach chastity belts to their mares and mules .
7 In this respect they are much the same as primitive people , who often take several days over assembling for some purpose and then several more to get started .
8 In this respect they are going against the trend of owner-occupation accounting for a larger and larger proportion of the housing stock — in 1986 about 63 per cent in Great Britain , up from 26 per cent in 1947 ( Social Trends 18 , 1988 , Table 7 ; Donnison 1967 , Table 10 ) .
9 In this respect we are unable to conclude on the completeness and accuracy of the company 's accounting records . ’
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