Example sentences of "[prep] respect [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We find him in a disgusting attitude of respect towards predecessors whose intellect is vastly inferior to his own . |
| 2 | Notions of ritual celebration can also be invoked to override the effect of a person 's lack of respect towards the police . |
| 3 | ‘ A somewhat unlovely characteristic of the present day ’ , Mrs Helen Bosanquet wrote in 1906 , was that ‘ there is among the children a prevailing and increasing want of respect towards their elders , more especially , perhaps , towards their parents ’ . |
| 4 | So you wish to mark their passing with some action of respect to their memory . |
| 5 | In a further nod of respect to the great helmsman , his portrait on the Forbidden City has been given a new look . |
| 6 | She had not pressed for a statement at Westminster out of respect to his family . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | I stopped the police banging down your door earlier out of respect to you . |
| 9 | They are a gesture of respect to clients who have particular interests . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Peng Yu-wei cleared his throat , his head held slightly forward in a gesture of respect to his two charges . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | 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. |
| 17 | Something in her tone brought a look of respect to his face . |
| 18 | With the greatest of respect to Middlesbrough and Stockton , they do not , as yet , have that appeal . |
| 19 | And the only kind of respect worth having is the insincere kind . ’ |
| 20 | For a long time I never realised how badly paid and overworked I was , but what made me feel bad in those days was the rudeness and lack of respect with which I and other Asian women were treated by the supervisors . |
| 21 | But North Down have earned a lot of respect with their performances this season and Robin Haire , Adrian Semple and Charlie McCrum are all potential match winners . |
| 22 | This total reverence to the group binds ideas of silence , loyalty , and reticence together to create a positive category for belief and action and , in turn , links silence to other concepts of respect for the order of the institution . |
| 23 | South Korea has a Confucian-style society which has a tradition of respect for hierarchical authority , but also one of egalitaranism and an expectation that rulers have a duty to treat their people fairly . |
| 24 | And for budding young adventurers he says the most important thing is to have a sense of respect for the countries you visit and leave things as they are . |
| 25 | Wearing a Dupatta over one 's head is also a sign of respect for elders ( and for God : a Sikh woman entering a Gurdwara ( Sikh temple ) always covers her head with a Dupatta ) . |
| 26 | But all those changes could be justified out of respect for the principle of freedom of choice in sexual matters , particularly where the enquiry is so straightforward . |
| 27 | But we must not confuse any of that with a static universalist understanding of the personality , nor — out of respect for the women of our past as well as out of respect for the truth — simply write over their self-identity . |
| 28 | But we must not confuse any of that with a static universalist understanding of the personality , nor — out of respect for the women of our past as well as out of respect for the truth — simply write over their self-identity . |
| 29 | Is it possible that ‘ secular ’ Protestants have a good deal of respect for evangelical beliefs and values even though they do not share them ? |
| 30 | More than that , it would have constituted a breach of rules of respect for elders , a denial of social hierarchy inculcated throughout infancy , boyhood , schooldays . |