Example sentences of "be in [det] respects " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
| 2 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |
| 3 | The systems of animal production based on crossbred breeding females — sheep and cattle — are in many respects more similar to those of the lowlands . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The skills and expertise required to manage or advise them are in many respects different to those required in a large organization . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The mandibles of Ephemeropteran larvae are in some respects intermediate between the Lepismatidae and the higher Pterygotes ( Snodgrass , 1950 ; Brown , 1961 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( 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 . ) |
| 20 | They are in most respects similar to treasury bills , including the eligibility for rediscount at the Bank of England . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The 1986 Act views the appointment of an administrative receiver as being in some respects similar to insolvency proceedings and regulates it accordingly . |
| 24 | In the late 1980s , the annual programmes produced by both the Partnership and Programme Authorities were in many respects not substantially different from those produced a decade earlier . |
| 25 | It was n't just that the parents had to be kept under control despite the fact that they and the police were in many respects working at cross purposes , it was the danger of some third party interfering … a go-between with power and influence was what the Captain dreaded most … |
| 26 | The years that followed were in many respects his heyday . |
| 27 | But the stations were in many respects designed to avoid these encounters across class and racial boundaries as much as possible . |
| 28 | Although conceding that manufactures were in many respects deserving of the " high encomiums " bestowed upon them , a pamphleteer of 1782 went on to remark : Scarcely are we fed , lodged , clothed , warmed , without sending multitudes to their grave . |
| 29 | The two Roman catholic priests , who were in all respects dedicated pastors and much liked by many in the local community , immediately opposed the idea , preaching against it at Sunday masses in the local convent and the school hall . |
| 30 | It followed , too , from the assumptions that the British made about the Masai 's conservatism , it appearing self-evident to them that because the Masai were so conspicuously uninterested in Western civilization they were in all respects content with the status quo ; so closely were Westernization and agitation linked in the administrative mind . |