Example sentences of "[prep] respect to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you wish to mark their passing with some action of respect to their memory . |
| 2 | In a further nod of respect to the great helmsman , his portrait on the Forbidden City has been given a new look . |
| 3 | She had not pressed for a statement at Westminster out of respect to his family . |
| 4 | In different forms it could provide marriage market ( 21st birthday party or coming-out-ball ) , gynaecological information service ( women withdrew from male company at some point during the evening ) , a seasonal celebration of community spirit ( harvest home , yuletide ) or a mark of respect to a human life ( funeral , wake ) . |
| 5 | I stopped the police banging down your door earlier out of respect to you . |
| 6 | They are a gesture of respect to clients who have particular interests . |
| 7 | She herself is not a reasonable person , she suspects , a suspicion confirmed that evening in the bathroom as she tries , out of respect to Liz 's party , to apply a little of a substance called Fluid Foundation to the winter-dry skin of her face . |
| 8 | Peng Yu-wei cleared his throat , his head held slightly forward in a gesture of respect to his two charges . |
| 9 | Consequently , according to Nida , ‘ it is impossible to say anything to anyone without indicating the relative degree of respect to which the speaker and hearer are entitled in the community ’ . |
| 10 | She might still have shed a few tears when the dogs were put down but those tears could have represented a fitting tribute of respect to lovely creatures whom human beings treat so shabbily . |
| 11 | Is not the timing of that exercise particularly insensitive , and is there any reason why it should not be postponed for a period of , say , a week as a mark of respect to the crew of the Antares , all of whom perished when the vessel was sunk ? |
| 12 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
| 13 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
| 14 | Something in her tone brought a look of respect to his face . |
| 15 | With the greatest of respect to Middlesbrough and Stockton , they do not , as yet , have that appeal . |
| 16 | The record of the police with respect to this estate is frankly appalling . |
| 17 | They perform a similar role with respect to the RUC 's reserve police . |
| 18 | With respect to the latter , for example , women are no longer excluded from night duty and they perform a wider range of section duties than before . |
| 19 | The image of policing gleaned from police programmes on British and American television and in films is very much how Easton 's police see themselves , as others have commented with respect to police forces elsewhere ( Holdaway 1983 : 147 ; Hurd 1979 ; Klockars 1983 ; Morris and Heal 1981 ; Tuska 1979 ) . |
| 20 | As Furlong noted with respect to teachers ( 1977 : 163 ) , their typifications of problem pupils were also heavily conditioned by specialist sociological knowledge ( ‘ from socially deprived families ’ ) or common-sense notions of psychoanalysis ( ‘ never had a father ’ ) . |
| 21 | The management 's dilemma with respect to neighbourhood policing in Northern Ireland is that , while communal divisions make it a particularly important style of policing , the people who carry it out on the streets are more identifiable and softer targets for terrorists . |
| 22 | While this contributes to crime prevention , especially with respect to joy-riders who steal and drive cars at speed at might ( which requires neighbourhood men in West Belfast to work might duty ) , it has none of the wider community service functions evident in Easton . |
| 23 | Thus with respect to solar time , the tides get later each day . |
| 24 | Technological advances might mean that we live in an artificial environment with respect to time-cues , but it is a rhythmic environment nevertheless , and our possession of a body clock means that all the advantages that come from the integration of biological and environmental rhythms apply equally to ourselves . |
| 25 | Some possibilities are : • The patient , particularly in an intensive care unit which has artificial rather than natural lighting , is in an environment that is poor with respect to natural time-cues . |
| 26 | It is just that they show a very late timing of their sleep/wake rhythm with respect to normal time-cues . |
| 27 | The ‘ explanation ’ raises many problems , not the least being why the symptoms should depend upon whether the temperature rhythm is delayed or advanced with respect to the sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 28 | Countries to the east of us are in time zones with local time that is ahead of GMT , whereas local time and the time zones to the west are delayed with respect to ours . |
| 29 | Second , if a traveller goes eastwards halfway round the Earth he will have passed through 12 time zones and gained 12 hours with respect to GMT ; he will meet another traveller who has travelled westward and so is 12 time zones ( 12 hours ) behind GMT . |
| 30 | Not only do we feel disorientated with respect to our habits but also there are more objective measurements to indicate that the flight has disorganized us . |