Example sentences of "[adj] sense that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in this sense that we can speak of Prussian hegemony : her economic strength , her size population and political weight inevitably resulted in putting a Prussian stamp on the new Germany . |
| 2 | It is in this sense that we can speak of students forming their own ideas . |
| 3 | It is in this sense that we can say that every organisation is political and every organisation is concerned with the use , and abuse , of power . |
| 4 | There were , however , some true ministers , typified by the two witnesses of Revelations xx , and it was in this sense that he described himself as ‘ an unworthy witness ’ of the Lord . |
| 5 | There can be little doubt that Hayward had come to rely upon him over that period , and felt in some sense that he had been abandoned . |
| 6 | Strong-willed and ambitious for her children , she did not retain the affection of her youngest child , Samuel , despite her early devotion to him , and left him in adult life with an obscure and painful sense that she had treated him cruelly . |
| 7 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 8 | The same Wordsworth , much-mocked , thought himself back to an innocent vision , told us that grass is green and water wet because he had reached beyond familiarity to some primal wonder that these things were so and not otherwise , to some mythic sense that he was giving or finding the words for the things , not merely repeating . |
| 9 | Some of them undoubtedly were pirates in the straightforward sense that they were ready to seize and plunder any passing ship without regard to the religion or nationality of its owners , but Spanish charges ranged much more widely . |
| 10 | There is general consensus in the research studies that physical punishment does ‘ work ’ in the limited sense that it will suppress many behaviours quickly and completely — the latter only if alternative ( competing ) and desirable behaviours are encouraged with positive reinforcement ( rewards ) . |
| 11 | , Jewish and proud of it , and South African by origin , was an iconoclast in the limited sense that he saw it has his duty within the government and outside to tell people , officials and politicians when he considered that they were wrong . |
| 12 | Thru is ‘ deconstructionist ’ in the additional sense that it places itself in multiple positions within the field of literary discourse . |
| 13 | Such triumphalist narratives can be empowering in the symbolic sense that they invest ethnic minorities with special powers of knowledge and action . |
| 14 | Your letter makes so much sense that I can not understand the recommendations of so many manufacturers to regularly fully discharge NiCad batteries . |
| 15 | The word ‘ socialism ’ is expunged from the party manifesto , which instead is decked out with words like ‘ supply side ’ and ‘ investment ’ , but those words are worn like slogans on the T-shirts of Third World peasants , with incomprehension and a vague sense that they confer status . |
| 16 | Vaughan 's constant sense that he was one of life 's outsiders , never a participant , that he was always ‘ trying to hold on to a reality which is no more than a projection of my own nerves ’ , made him sympathetic to the blighted , visionary anti-hero in Benjamin Britten 's opera , Peter Grimes , the première of which marked the reopening of the Sadler 's Wells Theatre after the war . |
| 17 | None in the conventional sense that I take it that you mean mark down you mean clearing merchandise |
| 18 | If , as it may be , such a system would cost more to operate than grant payments do , it would be of little advantage except in the important psychological sense that it would be a greater personal investment by the farmer over a longer time period . |
| 19 | And she had an incoherent sense that he and she together were being pushed in squares of black-and-white across the game board , and she did n't want to comply with the games masters by speaking aloud , let alone complaining , of the antagonisms they orchestrated . |
| 20 | Struggling throughout his life with his own infirmity of will , and with a haunting sense that he was like some great tree possessing ‘ pith within the Trunk , not heart of Wood ’ , he was consistently drawn , for good and ill , to those possessing stronger personalities than his own . |
| 21 | very simple reason she ca n't get she ca n't argue , this is a charity concert , she charges , the Chad do n't , and therefore , from the point of view of the charity , er it makes obvious good sense that we should go to somewhere which is free . |
| 22 | As she ran along the track to the road , she had an eerie sense that she was acting out something she had done before , but she could not pin it down until she reached the road and turned right , towards the village . |
| 23 | In Miss D'Arcy he had implanted a slight sense that she might have offended the Earl 's younger brother and could be denied entry into the world for which her father had cultivated her . |
| 24 | In the full sense that them , we 're talking about . |
| 25 | It is beyond doubt , he argues , and most psychologists and ethologists would agree , ‘ that animals act for the sake of goals , and that they may be conscious of their goals , in the quite literal sense that they may see or smell what they are after ’ ( 1975 : 19 ) . |
| 26 | Its uses are various ( a ‘ fart-catcher ’ is a footman who walks behind ; a ‘ fart-sucker ’ is a parasite ; ‘ like a fart in a bottle ’ indicates flustered agitation ; ‘ do n't fart about ’ means stop fooling ; and ‘ a silly fart ’ is a contemptuous description of a silly fool ) , but it is still in its original and anatomical sense that we use the word most frequently . |
| 27 | It 's got , I mean , surely the , the middle peasants or even the rich peasants the group of people that are gon na be most productive in the economy erm so you know your reform has to be fairly moderate in that sense that they have to be able to promote |
| 28 | But strong though that thrust is , it is not rescue in that sense that I want to argue for here . |
| 29 | More recently , however , Liberal Theology has become a recognised description of the Ritschlian school , and it is in that sense that it is used here . ) |
| 30 | One important question remains unsettled , namely , whether there can be a conviction for assault on a constable when the constable is not actually on duty in the technical sense that he has reported for his shift at the requisite time . |