Example sentences of "sense [prep] [noun] that " in BNC.
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1 | Scientists have been penetrating areas beyond human senses , and they have developed more and more devices to augment our senses in order that we may see into the heart of matter or reach the ends of the universe . |
2 | Their answers varied in length and opinion and the only common ground was a sense of gratitude that finally , someone had thought to ask them their views on the subject … |
3 | He could still recall the sense of dread that hung over him for days as he waited to be thrashed for that escapade . |
4 | She looked at him with a rising sense of panic that she tried to conceal . |
5 | Being trained , Wolfe knew what to do but she was struck by the sense of panic that engulfs any parent when a child is suddenly threatened with pain or in this case , death . |
6 | She felt sick , but was relieved to feel something : the weight of the food in her stomach did something to counteract the sense of unreality that afflicted her . |
7 | She had gone from happiness to misery and back again in what seemed no more than hours , and the speed of the changes had left her with a sense of unreality that she found impossible to shake off . |
8 | But , oddly , the thing I miss most of all is the extraordinary sense of release that accompanied the stage version . |
9 | Gareth 's ‘ BACK FOR GRUB ’ message was still pinned to the corkboard , and it was with a distinct sense of release that I remembered I 'd said that I would go back for his camera . |
10 | It is both funny and disturbing , a complex memory game that is distinctive in it simplicity and yet with a playfulness and sense of fun that complements both the rigour of the structure and seriousness of its themes . |
11 | MANAGER Trevor Francis revealed the sense of injustice that will fuel Sheffield Wednesday 's UEFA Cup challenge tonight . |
12 | Yet , at the same time , practical programmes that ignore justice in retributive terms are not only likely to prove unacceptable , but are also likely to be self-defeating : the sense of injustice that they generate militates against the effectiveness of their programmes . |
13 | This resentment , this sense of injustice that they have put in more than their fair share of time , energy and guts , was the most frequently struck note . |
14 | This gave his candidacy a clear sense of direction that others have lacked . |
15 | Not to be outdone the Wesleyan Methodists rejoiced in 1898 ‘ in the growing sense of kinship that marks our relations with the United States ’ , expressed their ‘ warmest sympathy ’ with America 's efforts to ‘ disburden suffering peoples of the pitiless and truculent misgovernments under which they have groaned ’ and rejoiced that ‘ In fusing together the two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race , the Churches have played the chief part although ’ , they added as a reprove to their more ‘ political ’ friends , the Baptists and Congregationalists , ‘ like their Lord , they do not cry nor uplift their voice in the highways of International politics ’ . |
16 | On the contrary his heart may be gladdened by the new and heady sense of actuality that accompanies this type of study . ’ |
17 | However , the confidence and sense of involvement that came out of the meetings ensured that all the men in the group were actually present at the birth of their child , and this might not otherwise have been the case . |
18 | Dealing with guilt for past behaviour by making direct amends to those who have been harmed , dealing with shame by accepting one 's self as having an illness and therefore worthy of self-forgiveness , and dealing with damaged relationships by being honest , open-minded and willing , all help to reestablish the general sense of well-being that is the hallmark of someone in recovery . |
19 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
20 | We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there . |
21 | Hemlines were up and tunes like the ‘ Black Bottom ’ and the ‘ Charleston ’ were part of a new sense of freedom that could be seen every night in Glasgow at over 50 ‘ Palais de Danse ’ . |
22 | The early Labour leaders supported votes for women , home rule not merely for Ireland but for Scotland and Wales , and were deeply concerned about the respect that should be paid to individuals , about the sense of freedom that was lacking in the nineteenth-century employer-employee relationship . |
23 | A high specification of housework rules can be seen as a common response to a common problem — the problem being how to make sense of work that is intrinsically unsatisfying under conditions where less and less of it need be done ( through automation , ‘ convenience ’ foods , better housing conditions , etc ) , but where the structural pressures which assign women to the home remain as strong as ever . |
24 | Lovers of freedom throughout the world looked to this vision with hope and it is with profound sadness that they see the vision momentarily dimmed , and with this dimming has come a confusion of purpose and a sense of despair that was never known before in America . |
25 | The repetition of ‘ the woods decay ’ stress the sense of despair that Titonus feels . |
26 | There is also a growing sense of dismay that attempts to contain and control corporate crime are largely absent or ineffectual . |
27 | It 's still the sense of multiplicity that 's oppressive . |
28 | This case illustrates the sense of hopelessness that may develop in the unemployed , especially when finding a job appears to be in almost impossible task , and how this may create other problems , particularly when a major life event occurs , such as the break-up of an important relationship . |
29 | For those who do not have addictive diseases it seems incongruous that some sufferers will pursue their addiction to death , either through the consequences of the addiction or through suicide at the sense of hopelessness that is the hallmark of sufferers from the primary disease , - but that is the nature of the addiction . |
30 | To create a sense of occasion that is in keeping with the depth of emotion felt at such times is very difficult without recognized formalities and strong ritualistic content . |