Example sentences of "in [art] sense of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Gallie puts it , summarising Mallet , ‘ Integration , in the sense of identification with the enterprise and its overall performance , becomes then a necessary corollary of the desire to further one 's own interests ’ ( Gallie 1978 , 18 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't have the slightest desire to see the restitution of my father 's property , ’ he added in that 1968 interview , and ‘ I was always in favour of socialism in the sense of nationalisation of major means of production . ’ |
| 3 | The French use ‘ participation ’ , for instance , in one sense to mean ‘ profit sharing ’ , whereas the term is more usually understood in the sense of participation by workers in the management of enterprises ( Blanpain , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | Autonomy , in the sense of freedom from supervision and ability to determine one 's own work rhythms , is an important dimension of employment work . |
| 5 | The results , as we have seen , were parliamentary government in the sense of government through Parliament rather than government by Parliament , with a largely ceremonial head of state . |
| 6 | There was bureaucracy in the sense of government by officials . |
| 7 | The colonial form of government can perhaps be described as a ruling bureaucracy in the sense of government by appointed officials only slightly modified by the gradual emergence of consultative , advisory and legislative councils . |
| 8 | A mire is defined here in the sense of Ratcliffe in Burnett ( 1964 ) as a habitat in which the watertable is at or near the surface but where there is lateral water movement . |
| 9 | And yet private sector organisations are also political in the sense of competition between ideas and individuals within the organisation . |
| 10 | Tillich distinguishes between the Buddhist concept of compassion on the one hand , and the Christian concept of love in the sense of agape on the other . |
| 11 | It has been argued that it covers not only fairness , in the sense of fairness to the accused , but also in the sense of ensuring that , in the eyes of the public , the highest standards of justice are upheld and it appears to the world at large that the accused is getting a fair trial . |
| 12 | My object in this chapter has been to provide a transition between ( i ) the analysis of economic class relations , in the sense of possession of and separation from the means of production , and the strategic opportunities for the socialist project connected with the current forms of these relations , and ( ii ) the politics of taking up these opportunities in modern Britain . |
| 13 | Throughout the whole period Britain remained " Great " in the sense of ruling over the largest empire in human history . |
| 14 | It follows in virtue of this control that companies have power not only in the sense of discretion over the allocation of resources between different uses , but also in a more invasive sense of an ability to influence individual desires and conduct . |
| 15 | We have so far considered corporate decision-making power in the sense of discretion over what to produce , in what quantities , and at what price . |
| 16 | Not just in the political sense , but also in the sense of cycles between all opposites — like life and death , good and bad , and ugliness and beauty . |
| 17 | The majority of the budget consisted of relatively uncontrollable expenditure ; uncontrollable in the sense of outlays for entitlement programmes , such as social security and unemployment benefits , and outlays that arose from previous electoral obligations . |
| 18 | Whilst there has been some confusion as to exactly what ‘ remoteness ’ consists of ( it seems to have been equated to distance from London whereas it would seem to be psychological remoteness in the sense of inaccessibility of decision-makers which really matters ) , the lesson nevertheless seems clear . |
| 19 | The phrase educational reading is often used in the sense of textbooks for formal education programmes . |
| 20 | It appears to me that default in the sense of breach of duty must persist after the act or neglect until the damage is suffered . |
| 21 | But we are mistaken if this leads us to suppose that there is any question of truth or falsehood here in the sense of conformity to fact . |
| 22 | There are also negative measures in the sense of restriction of land-uses , and exclusion of people and/or livestock from certain areas . |
| 23 | Yet Anglicans had always allowed for passive resistance , in the sense of non-compliance with the ungodly commands of the sovereign , so long as one peacefully accepted the punishments for one 's disobedience . |
| 24 | As he had stressed in The Rock this was not in the sense of information , but rather in the sense of consciousness of values ; and he deplored a situation where the term society implied simply a group of ‘ well connected ’ and affluent people , which had almost no relation to that other group or society which maintained moral and intellectual standards , which for him was the church . |
| 25 | This then is the basic tectonic control of the stratigraphical record , in the sense of heaps of sediment being preserved for our study . |
| 26 | Active life in the sense of engagement with the physical necessities and well-being of society belongs properly and sensibly to people who feel no inner compulsion towards , or understanding of , spiritual issues — as he much more trenchantly put it , they have " no sauour " of " goostli occupacioun " ( 12.123 – 4 ) . |
| 27 | If our one inevitable aim is the enjoyment of our own powers ( an enjoyment which reaches its highest level in a sense of oneness with the cosmos as a whole ) what becomes of our duties to others , of keeping contracts , of helping the needy , of unselfishness in daily life , and so forth ? |
| 28 | It is understandable that the previous isolation of the disease results in a sense of amazement in early recovery on the discovery that other people have not only shared similar experiences but also similar thoughts and feelings . |