Example sentences of "sense that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , we are two-ply , diploid , in a sense that we get one set of our genes from one parent and another complete set from the other parent . |
| 2 | The the difficulty in a sense that we got , if we look at two paragraphs towards the end the report . |
| 3 | makes it more annoying in one sense that we wasted the chance to make ground on everyone . |
| 4 | There w–s no sense that we had passed from the holy world of church to secular life : there was a wholeness and a holiness about the whole experience which is difficult to describe . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well there are problems in the sense that we 've got to do it , in terms of management of the County Council , the control of the capital programme , no I do n't think so , because if , if there was no control on it , you would n't now be picking up and saying ‘ hey we 've got to do something about it ’ . |
| 7 | To demonstrate , then , that prices are inflexible in the sense that we mean in the remainder of this chapter , it has to be established that the price may deviate from its equilibrium value over a given interval . |
| 8 | So we need a ‘ transactional model ’ rather than a critical period model if we are to understand the course of child development — transactional in the sense that we recognize the constant and progressive mutual modifications of parent and child at all stages of growth . |
| 9 | Living up to other people 's signalled expectations is often a pleasure/pain experience : pleasure in the recognition we receive for satisfying others ' expectations , pain in the sense that we lose some of our independence and freedom . |
| 10 | So that there 's a kind of assessment built in there … but that piece of work goes forward in the end and is more , slightly more , formally assessed in the sense that we give them direct feedback on performance , and that runs from technical notes , director 's notes , to a very much more abstract formal assessment , which is essentially subjective , ‘ How does one feel about this piece , the atmosphere it creates ’ , … and that 's quite different from director 's notes , which can be of a technical variety to do with voice , movement , audibility , characterization , anything ; the things that are actually being described , analysed , looked at in the end … |
| 11 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 12 | My own view is that the Turks do not interpret the course of the war in the same sense that we do . |
| 13 | If you are fortunate enough to own , or to find , an incunabulum or book printed before 1500 , do not be too alarmed if it has no title , since many books of the period had none , at least in the sense that we understand , the publisher/printer contenting himself with a curt statement of the title and author 's name , known as a ‘ label title ’ , or else a small introductory paragraph ( sometimes using a different coloured ink ) known as the ‘ incipit ’ , from the Latin ‘ it begins ’ . |
| 14 | Steven Marcus has suggested that : ‘ Pornography , in the sense that we understand it today , is a historical phenomenon ; it begins to exist significantly some time during the middle of the eighteenth century , and flourishes steadily — though with periodic fluctuations in intensity — throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . ’ |
| 15 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 16 | The Situationists were idealists in the sense that they perceived themselves apart from the spectacle , always managing to be ‘ other-than-spectacular ’ , as Levin puts it , so that this became a pre-condition of Situationist practice . |
| 17 | All these rates are nominal , in the sense that they assume inflation does not exist . |
| 18 | But both Pound and Lewis were American or Americanized enough to have on the contrary a professional attitude to their respective arts , in the quite precise sense that they saw the continuity of art traditions ensured by the atelier , the master instructing his prentices . |
| 19 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater . |
| 21 | Well in the sense that they 've been involved in it . |
| 22 | In actual practice you could find an analysis that very often the things that have been repressed have not been repressed in the sense that they 've been totally submerged from your consciousness and totally forgotten without any trace , but what often happens is they 've become isolated or , or divorced from their context in your memory . |
| 23 | These are still very general in the sense that they tell you what kind of relations you would have to look for to turn Poulantzas ' scheme into an explanatory tool , rather than what relations of these types there actually are . |
| 24 | These theories are ‘ real ’ in the sense that they trace the origins of business cycles to supply-side shocks such as exogenous shifts in technology . |
| 25 | Some tasks may be logically more complex than others in the sense that they subsume simpler tasks . |
| 26 | It requires that the various standards governing the state 's use of coercion against its citizens be consistent in the sense that they express a single and comprehensive vision of justice . |
| 27 | Teacher Andy Cannon in fact — all six foot plus of him — their main man and the driving force behind their Lilliputian endeavours ( Lilliputian only in the sense that they lack height ) . |
| 28 | At first sight these measures appear to be interestingly decentralist in the sense that they devolve power and responsibility to the local level . |
| 29 | I am absolutely confident that Dr. Church and his partners are not unique and that many other doctors are in the same position , in the sense that they made financial investments during 1989-91 and the payments that they received from the fund were limited by the operation of the list size criterion . |
| 30 | It had been his first and only history lesson , and throughout their hungry and needy years in Bunarkaig he never lost the sense that they lived under threat , that government was pitiless , and that some day they would have to fight again for the right to live at peace in their own place . |