Example sentences of "this respect [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture .
2 The quality of the works produced by Picasso and Braque was on the whole consistently high ( Gris ' output was more uneven in this respect despite the singlemindedness of his vision ) .
3 Historians have , however , been shown to have underestimated the role in this respect of the country banks .
4 When the situation seemed to warrant it , or the moment seemed opportune , these were dealt with briskly by the forces of law and order : there was little sign of any paralysis of will in this respect on the part of the British in India .
5 Secondly , and in contrast with this respect for the state 's monopoly of violence , because the provisionals seek to destroy the Northern dominance of protestant loyalists with a view to restoring ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ , there is and will remain substantial support from among the Southern population for the violence the provisionals actually commit in the North .
6 The tendency for spits to be orientated at right angles to the dominant waves is well illustrated by Hurst Castle Spit which is particularly instructive in this respect for the spit does not continue the direction of the coast west of Milford , which is west-north-west to east-south-east , but orientates itself north-west to south-east , thus demonstrating the connection with wave direction .
7 Probably the most disadvantaged researchers in this respect in the field of linguistic semantics are those who study ‘ dead ’ languages .
8 The hon. Gentleman has been noticeably reticent in this respect in the past .
9 It must , however , be said that it is by no means crystal clear that this forms the mental element of the ‘ species ’ torts of unlawful interference with contract and unlawful means conspiracy ( indeed , in the case of the latter it very probably does not ) and it is not easy to see how the species can differ in this respect from the genus .
10 Australia , New Zealand and the UK had advocated an end to sports sanctions , but the committee stated that " the Commonwealth should continue to be guided in this respect by the views of representative non-racial sporting organizations " .
11 The interior certainly does look light , though it is assisted in this respect by the Cathedral eastern Gothic rose .
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