Example sentences of "[adj] sense of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young and Sloman discovered this sense of intimacy in the Treasury . |
| 2 | It is in this sense of extension of the basic , restricted theory , that I offer what I would call for the purposes of this discussion , the polytraumatic theory . |
| 3 | The most skilled and literate combined the keenest sense of grievance with the ability to articulate their aspirations . |
| 4 | Almost everyone , man or woman , feels some sense of misgiving at the prospect of retirement , and for men in particular , it can seem like being ‘ thrown on the scrap heap ’ . |
| 5 | But , that said , America needs to find some theme in his gorgings , and some sense of priorities between the goats'-cheese salad with balsamic vinegar and the stack of blueberry pancakes with syrup and melted butter , before dyspepsia sets in . |
| 6 | By what were to be the last years of the silent cinema quite a few critics had become aware of some sense of life in the feature film . |
| 7 | I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark . |
| 8 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 9 | The SERC 's action , announced to 100 professors and heads of departments of physics at a meeting last Friday at Imperial College , London , is an attempt to stimulate some sense of direction among the majority of academic physicists who work in neither astronomy nor nuclear physics . |
| 10 | When one boy attempted to impart some sense of movement to the still life by pouring himself an imaginary cup of tea the teacher lightly but firmly kicked him back to his seat , smiling and talking in a manner that confirmed for the pupil the ‘ naturalness ’ of this action . |
| 11 | The spread of secular schools and Turkish-language newspapers ( there were 16 by 1913 , all except three in the dialect of the Volga Tatars ) began to create some sense of identity among the Muslims of the west , or at least among those who were literate . |
| 12 | It is interesting how many of the social workers who regard themselves as identified with their clients , sharing some sense of oppression by the ‘ bureaucracy ’ that weighs upon them both and working therefore to help the clients receive resources from the ‘ system ’ , have a view of social security field staff that is directly in contrast to their view of their own position . |
| 13 | There may be some sense of cohesion in the North-East , Yorkshire , Lancashire , or the South-West , but even if this sentiment is totally lacking in the rest of England , it can be argued that these areas would be better administered by a series of regional ministries . |
| 14 | However , these grumbles , and the piecemeal reforms and constitutional pseudo-changes which they inspired , did not spill over into a generalised sense of unease about the essence of the liberal-democratic constitution itself . |
| 15 | Is it based on the positive pull of their policies , or is it more of a protest vote reflecting a generalised sense of disenchantment with the workings of the two-party politics ? |
| 16 | Writing in the monthly magazine Bungei Shunju , he claimed that Obuchi and the other LDP figures of that generation were unsuited to exercise power as they had not " the slightest sense of urgency about the current maelstrom of public cynicism about politics " . |
| 17 | The report also notes that air quality in people 's homes is often also poor , largely because of inadequate ventilation and heating and because " householders often have a wrong sense of priorities about the importance of ventilation " . |
| 18 | As in France , there are cultural as well as structural problems : the weakness of policy debate and the public sense of alienation from the bizarre workings of their political system mean that the successive crises seldom have anything to do with the outside world . |
| 19 | I do n't exactly have a clear sense of perspective on the subject myself . |
| 20 | Men cherished a tremendous sense of nostalgia for the departed glories of the previous temple , and for the Spirit of Yahweh which used in Old Testament days to be displayed in mighty deliverers and inspired prophets . |
| 21 | But he felt a tremendous sense of awe at the invitation to visit the President as an equal . |
| 22 | I was young enough to believe these tales implicitly , but my early sense of wonder in the hills has never entirely vanished . |
| 23 | Like an ornithological Michaelangelo he propelled her limited sense of perspective into the third dimension . |
| 24 | Maire Carroll , serving in the shop and hating it , felt a firm and vicious sense of satisfaction over the fate of Eve and Benny , but of course she pretended great care and concern . |
| 25 | Methodologically , it is not possible for any researcher to get the kids to talk with much sense of ideas since the question ‘ Why ? ’ to the smashing of milk bottles is one that is not possible for the boy to answer outside the context of the whole Saturday evening … |
| 26 | There is a stillness in these final scenes which forms a fine contrast with the earlier manic activity , a real sense of wonder as the dead come to life and the divided family are miraculously reunited . |
| 27 | There was no overall sense of achievement in the training world . |
| 28 | He is also concerned with evaluating the seminars he runs — both the ‘ staff lunches ’ and afternoon seminars — so that there is an on-going assessment which contributes to an overall sense of commitment to the task . |
| 29 | Whatever internal dissent there might have been had clearly been silenced by a unifying sense of outrage over the city 's 37 dead . |
| 30 | Since the publication of the General Theory there had always been a nagging sense of unease at the treatment of prices in Keynesian macroeconomics . |