Example sentences of "sense [that] [pers pn] could " in BNC.

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1 Last year 's Japanese one was easy in the sense that we could simply field the best of our Japanese works of art .
2 But to what extent are the sentencing ( and other ) practices of these courts responsible for the crisis , in the sense that they could choose to do otherwise , rather than being the victims of external factors ( such as the crime rate ) over which they have no control ?
3 … there was , of course , a dispute between the parties at the time in question in the sense that they could not agree on the amount of the yearly rent ; but it was not a dispute in which each had formulated a view which was then placed for decision before the independent surveyor .
4 She was not even inarticulate in the sense that she could express her own feelings convincingly .
5 This did not make any sense that she could see when she thought : but she felt the power of it .
6 It has been claimed that automatic crystallisation is unfair in the sense that it could prejudice subsequent chargees who do not know , and indeed who may have no way of knowing , that the charge has crystallised .
7 An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating .
8 The connection with neurosis was not unconscious , nor yet fully conscious in the sense that I could have expressed it verbally , but it was , in being unique , all-pervasive .
9 We were very close in the sense that I could ask him anything at any time , and we took great pleasure in each other 's company . ’
10 A : They are complementary in the sense that you could n't really do an inspection without some documentation .
11 He still could n't entirely believe it , In the sense that he could not believe that it was happening to him , that he was so vulnerable to such a common , almost hackneyed feeling .
12 It must be shown that the plaintiff acted voluntarily in the sense that he could exercise a free choice .
13 There was something that with one of his sense that he could recognize .
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