Example sentences of "[adj] sense [prep] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growing up was much harder than was ever said , involving , as it must , both the practised , clinical coldness to which she aspired combined with a proper sense of pity when it was called for and could be expressed with dignity and without embarrassment to the parties concerned . |
| 2 | As with good subwoofers the effect of this extra octave is felt primarily in the enhanced sense of acoustic that it conveys — one simply becomes still more involved in the proceedings , more a part of the audience than an observer . |
| 3 | I also think it 's a question of being able to provide , certainly at the top of a company , a sense of direction and I find it hard to see how you can have an absolutely clear sense of direction unless you yourself are able to assess the essentials as you see them for success in your particular trade . |
| 4 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
| 5 | She felt a warm sense of power as she kept him dangling for a moment . |
| 6 | Richard says he has a tremendous sense of history as he works in the woods . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His feelings of inferiority were compounded only by the vague sense of unease that his careerism and social mobility had possibly been misguided from the outset . |
| 9 | There is a real sense of achievement when everything has been ticked off and we can rest easy knowing that everything is under control . |
| 10 | Other than that , the TriAxis is great fun to play with , the sounds are top grade and there 's a real sense of achievement when you 've created a personalised bunch of presets . |
| 11 | It was with a sickening sense of shock that his eyes fell at last on the heaps of bodies lying in the shadows of the dock buildings and beneath the pepper trees . |
| 12 | She felt a new and frightening sense of resentment that she could n't even feed Debbie in peace . |
| 13 | This takes practice but you can soon learn to use that new-found sense of awareness whether you are going through a tranquil period of your life or whether you are lying in bed wondering why you can not get to sleep . |
| 14 | But they are particularly easy to mark , but I suspect they give us a false sense of objectivity and I think we sometimes give the statistics a little bit too much weight . |
| 15 | He 's got a brilliant sense of humour and he comes up with very good ideas and he keeps the energy there . |
| 16 | He wanted to be able to give me fifty pounds , and he was suffering from a deep sense of inadequacy because he could n't have given me five . |
| 17 | Jess felt such a deep sense of disappointment that she was startled by it . |
| 18 | Despite his casual dress of jeans and shirt , there was still an air of sophistication about him that was in sharp variance to those around him , and she cursed Donal again for his stupid sense of humour because it now put her in the most ridiculous position . |
| 19 | After his death , I learnt not to shut him out of my life and now I feel a comforting sense of continuity when I go through the boxes and find little notes by him which I have never seen before . |
| 20 | She felt a flickering sense of danger as she spoke the words . |
| 21 | The principal of the college was Jimmie Seaton , a plump , cheerful , outgoing little man known as Friar Tuck , who bubbled with amusement and good sense of vitality and who liked people and gardening while he hated committees and pomposity . |
| 22 | Nevertheless it was with a great sense of relief that she found the patio deserted save for a handful of hotel guests drinking beer and enjoying the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 23 | The Rev Anthony Freeman said he felt a great sense of relief when he admitted to himself he did not hold to the traditional view of God . |
| 24 | The slight movements from the recovery cage brought her back to the present and she felt a great sense of relief as she watched the gradual return to consciousness of her patient . |
| 25 | The children were wonderfully responsive , with a great sense of humour and they derived enormous excitement from the games and competitions . |
| 26 | His memory providing Lithuanians with a renewed sense of purpose as they continued to build their nation . |
| 27 | It was with a considerable sense of agitation that she found herself opposite room number four . |
| 28 | It suggests , too , the knife-edge path traversed by the adult writer between his overpowering response to physical and natural beauty and the self-defeating sense of unworthiness that he normally characterises , and displays , as a hampering shyness , a fear of rejection . |
| 29 | If you feel the ‘ fit ’ is wrong so that the relationship is not working well you might need to consider ending it , for there should be a growing sense of ease as you get to know each other . |
| 30 | But however we label this stage , it is clear that many , if not most , women experience a quite severe sense of loss when their children leave home . |