Example sentences of "sense of [noun sg] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together they went to bullfights , to watch Chamaco and Ordonez perform , Minton 's interest in this art having been fired by Hemingway 's Death in the Afternoon , by its colourfulness , sense of theatre and by the focus it gives to male idolatry . |
| 2 | But the Florentine asked Roth to desist , because ‘ I have a sense of measure and of the ridiculous . ’ |
| 3 | He felt a sense of guilt but at the same time knew he could never have spoken to her anyway . |
| 4 | But even as she deliberately shut him from her thoughts , it struck her with an icy sense of unease that over the past week something rather worrying had happened . |
| 5 | To the observer this decision of 1955 looks as hard or harder ; to agree to accept a post which he expected to hate , and for which he regarded himself as unsuitable , and in which he would have to neglect that scholarship which was essential to his happiness and to his sense of vocation and to the reason why he ever became a bishop at all , if the leaders of the Church declared that this was where he was needed . |
| 6 | The Riders , one may say , have a sense of awe or of the supernatural ; but they do nothing about it . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , the old man had a wry sense of humour though on the face of it the other provisions in his will are probably more important . |
| 8 | Particularly while the affluent , Conservative-dominated South-East grows increasingly apart from the rest of the country , yet retains control over the language and ideology of most of its media , a sense of separateness and of the need for separate forms is likely to result elsewhere . |