Example sentences of "sense that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is through the physical senses that we experience the world , it is largely through our emotions that we interpret it and our relationship to it . |
| 2 | He sat her down on his knee and kissed her , waking all the wicked senses that she 'd been taught to suppress all her life . |
| 3 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 4 | Now and again there was a light in his eyes , a far-off look , that was so appealing to her senses that she had to break it to ease her own pain . |
| 5 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 6 | The latter may not realise in a coherent way what is afoot , but it knows that the duty of a government is to provide law and order and senses that it is not deploying its resources to do so . |
| 7 | In the full sense that them , we 're talking about . |
| 8 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The second set of findings suggests that , when the information in a clause containing an anaphoric expression is integrated into the existing mental model , the interpretation of that clause is often incomplete , in a sense that we will define below . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For example , breast milk is sweet and salty , so it makes sense that we 're born liking these tastes . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is doubtful if we can talk about modern nations having a culture in the sense that we can say that there is a monolithic entity called American culture or British culture . |
| 16 | The studies used as a basis for judgement are generally lacking in control because of the finality of educational decision making and placement ( in the sense that we can not return the child to an original or alternative placement a year later and be able to start from the same point again ) . |
| 17 | But Fred Vierra , a top manager at TCI , thinks the deal will now ‘ create a sense of urgency among the players — a sense that we all need to decide who 's going to be on which teams . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Last year 's Japanese one was easy in the sense that we could simply field the best of our Japanese works of art . |
| 21 | But in the sense that we 're in the Common Market now , I see the whole current situation as anachronistic , rooted in 19th century thought . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | This observation , that we remain uncritical observers in dreaming , forms an important part of some recent theorizing about dreaming by the psychophysiologist Allan Rechtschaffen , who has described dreams as being " isolated " and even " unimaginative " in the sense that we can not imagine something else during the action of a dream . |
| 25 | It is more passive in the sense that we ca n't interact with a text , we ca n't affect the development of the text by our own words , since the text 's words are already given . |
| 26 | The point is not that companies are ideal mechanisms for making decisions which have important social effects ( in the sense that we would choose them for this purpose other considerations being equal ) . |
| 27 | Things like pencils and tables and houses and electronic calculators , as well as living beings , are " temporal " entities in the sense that we can meaningfully speak of their life-span , their " coming into being " and " going out of existence " or " ceasing to be " . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is in this sense that we can speak of students forming their own ideas . |
| 30 | And in that act we believe that in a spiritual sense that we are lifted up . |