Example sentences of "be in [det] respect " in BNC.

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1 The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect .
2 Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology .
3 They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised .
4 Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ .
5 The systems of animal production based on crossbred breeding females — sheep and cattle — are in many respects more similar to those of the lowlands .
6 But a little further investigation shows that tortoises are cold-blooded reptiles that lay eggs , while armadillos are in many respects typical warm-blooded mammals bearing their young alive .
7 In the 1990s class divisions are in many respects less consciously felt than they were in the post-war era , but there are other divisions which pose a threat to the sense of community , national identity and social cohesion .
8 The skills and expertise required to manage or advise them are in many respects different to those required in a large organization .
9 What is apparent is that the risk factors identified run parallel to and are in many respects very similar to those already noted in relation to child abuse .
10 The country is divided into thirty-two states which are in many respects self-governing , with laws differing from state to state , although all are subject to the national federal law .
11 If we can suspend the rigidity of the traditional comparisons , we can realise that Matisse and Picasso are in many respects part of the same enterprise .
12 While it is therefore acceptable to talk of Japan as strongly influenced by Confucianism , the emphases of th Japanese brand of Confucianism are in many respects far removed from the Chinese original .
13 It is thus not easy to refute the idea that cultures and outlooks dominated by oral modes , literacy and print , or electronic media are in many respects distinctive .
14 But while her novels of this period — The Languages of Love ( 1957 ) , The Sycamore Tree , ( 1958 ) , The Dear Deceit , ( 1960 ) , and The Middlemen ( 1961 ) — are in many respects typical products of their generation , they raise a number of issues which it was not possible to articulate within the parameters of the contemporary debate .
15 We arrived safely on the 19th [ 18 September according to the Hobart Town Courier ] of September in excellent health , and but for the thoughts of those we left behind should also be in good spirits as our prospects here are in many respects cheering .
16 Though the members of this genus are in many respects typical ascaridoids , their biology is sufficiently varied for it to be necessary to consider each species separately .
17 For some Christians the fact that we are made in God 's image means that we are in some respects killing God if we attempt suicide , and so there can be no more serious sin .
18 The mandibles of Ephemeropteran larvae are in some respects intermediate between the Lepismatidae and the higher Pterygotes ( Snodgrass , 1950 ; Brown , 1961 ) .
19 For lone mothers the experience of poverty and the consequences of poverty are in some respects similar to , and in others different from , those of married mothers .
20 But modern industrial societies are in some respects in a worse position than the hunter-gatherer societies to which such relatively defective ego and superego development is normal , because they lack any institutional means of correcting the situation at puberty .
21 The second and very obvious point that needs to be stated is that if the justices , having fulfilled their duty to make independent investigation of the terms proposed by consent , reach the initial conclusion that those terms are in some respect deficient then before imposing other terms on the parties they must indicate the nature of their departure and give all the parties a fair opportunity to make submissions on their tentative conclusion .
22 ( They may also have generated some demands by spreading the word about regimes and rules in the Northern Ireland prison system , which are in several respects more liberal than in England . )
23 They are in most respects similar to treasury bills , including the eligibility for rediscount at the Bank of England .
24 The novels of the 1840s are in this respect a total contrast .
25 Both lists are in this respect artificial , and the errors on Æthelnoth and Hakon suggest that they were copied from exemplars .
26 In Beck v Szymonowski [ 1924 ] AC 43 a clause which provided that " the goods delivered shall be deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the contract " unless the buyer notified the seller of complaints within a stated period was held not to apply where the seller contracted to sell reels of cotton 200 yards in length but actually supplied reels of only 188 yards : the claim was " not in respect of goods delivered but in respect of goods which are not delivered " ( despite the fact that this might have been regarded as a claim that the goods did not comply with their description ) .
27 It is important to emphasize how varied volcanoes can be in this respect .
28 Flexible though the Formalist/Prague School approach may be in this respect , it still attaches overwhelming importance to the element of innovation in literature , thus reflecting the permanent revolution in poetic language , and in literary forms in general , brought about by the modernist movement from the later nineteenth century onwards .
29 Just as there is a break in the four volumes which constitute the Omnibus , Thru being in many respects a new departure , so the final volume of the Quartet breaks with the technological preoccupations of the first three novels .
30 The 1986 Act views the appointment of an administrative receiver as being in some respects similar to insolvency proceedings and regulates it accordingly .
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