Example sentences of "a sense [prep] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a sense to which , to put it in current terms |
| 2 | ‘ When you 've done research on a country for years , you also get a sense of which groups have vested interests or political agendas , who can be trusted and who has given us reliable information , ’ said Smart . |
| 3 | The explicit theoretical approach which we adopted in 5 should certainly not be necessary ( unless our students are students of linguistics ! ) , but we will need forgive examples of alternative ways of ordering information in an English clause ( as we did with the John ate fish and chips sentence in 5.4 ) and then rely on the students ' ability to acquire a sense of which is contextually most suitable . |
| 4 | There is a sense of which that good housekeeping with the inevitable consequences of government policy can be , can be in terms if you like , or benefits to the council tax payers , who have after all in a under the complete disaster of the poll tax which nobody but nobody in this chamber I suspect knew more unless there is at least one partisan tory who will try to save it , it was really a wonderful experiment and it 's a shame it did n't continue . |
| 5 | There is a sense in which the hero of Kundera 's novel Life is elsewhere , published in Britain in 1986 , is also the hero of Klima 's collection of stories My First Loves , published here in the same month of the same year . |
| 6 | There is a sense in which each novel of his is an opinion of his , coextensive with the work itself and rather hard , as a rule , to read off in summary . |
| 7 | When you start there is a sense in which everything you do is right , there is no clear sense of wrong , though of course it is here that you may make the inevitable false move , take the inevitable wrong turning . |
| 8 | There is still a sense in which the relation between words and object can be called ‘ arbitrary ’ , since we are not dealing with onomatopeia , but it is quite unproblematical . |
| 9 | There is a sense in which interpretation without conclusion is a mode of ‘ play ’ ; deconstruction insists that philosophical texts must be read as though they were literary texts , with full attention to their ambiguities and irresolutions . |
| 10 | There has always been a sense in which music is a secret , arcane , almost Cabbalistic , art . |
| 11 | There is a sense in which there is a secret , collusive relationship between politics and the media which the outside world rarely glimpses . |
| 12 | Moreover , the commitment of the state to provide education is still quantitatively controlled , in a sense in which the commitment of the National Health Service to provide medical care is not : for example , the state fixes a compulsory period of school attendance , defines the standards of provision in schools within the system , and indicates the stages and branches in which further commitments will be accepted . |
| 13 | If so , then there is a sense in which homophobia may feed itself , securing the framework ( sexual difference ) which promotes and intensifies its displacement as anger . |
| 14 | I shall suggest that there is a sense in which the very notion of a homosexual sensibility is a contradiction in terms . |
| 15 | Clearly much of the material is unsupportable and there is a sense in which this is self-evident in that the Scrapbook is styled as an ‘ anti-document ’ which , like the films of Debord , is co-extensive with the equally unsupportable and qualitatively diminished world to which it relates . |
| 16 | What I want to argue now is that there is a sense in which the symptom of this pessimism exist in the movement itself . |
| 17 | Their self-image was that of the chosen few for whom the spectacle provided an inexhaustible supply of objects ( and people ) to hate , and whilst the apparent ease with which they targeted and disposed of their opposition often made good copy ( the endless adventure , the scandal , etc. ) , there is a sense in which the hectoring tone of their documents became repetitive and wearisome . |
| 18 | But though desire determines actions in this way , there nevertheless is , argues Hobbes , a sense in which we can be free . |
| 19 | But there is a sense in which a rehearsal is the process of coming to terms with a great resistance . |
| 20 | There is a sense in which the greatest art in conducting is to know when one should not conduct . |
| 21 | And there is a sense in which this applies , but although I can appreciate his point that seeking a good reputation may well dominate the practical order , if it were also to dominate the activities I have designated ‘ second-order ’ then it makes nonsense of the possibility of ‘ disinterestedness ’ , enjoying something for its own sake . |
| 22 | I assume here that there is a sense in which the latter is the case , though the full story is more complex and can not be explored here . |
| 23 | Marjorie , however , feels that she must put in an appearance downstairs , however token , before he leaves for work , and there is a sense in which Vic understands and approves of this gesture . |
| 24 | Admittedly there is a sense in which this assertion is tautologous — if they are so seldom evaluated , how can one say they are often unsuccessful ? |
| 25 | There is a sense in which modern science is actually better than ancient science . |
| 26 | The answer is that we might , because there is a sense in which they must indulge in a kind of competition with each other . |
| 27 | For there is a sense in which the ready and correct dismissal of essentialist definitions of any legitimate inner city problematic has characterised literature of the left . |
| 28 | Advertising is certainly a legitimate business , but there is a sense in which its goal is to raise the lust factor to a level where we feel we need something today that we did not know existed yesterday . |
| 29 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
| 30 | There was , however , a sense in which Gandhi did pose a personal challenge to the British , as distinct from the institutional challenge of organized mass disobedience for which he was responsible . |