Example sentences of "[det] sense of [noun] [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some sense of the conflict and confrontation generated by the difference on fundamental principle , the antithesis between Consumers ' and Industrial Co-operation , comes through Cole 's flat account , some sense of Mitchell as a man who saw things narrowly but very clearly , was sure of his objective and of the means of its achievement : the development of the CWS into the very large , multifarious and highly successful undertaking it became . |
| 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 | 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 … |
| 15 | We have , as a nation , lost all sense of proportion during the past 13 years , as government policy has been determined by the worship of a single economic icon : the conquest of what the Daily Telegraph , in a telling editorial comment , described as ‘ the one absolute evil ’ — inflation . |
| 16 | Later Jed had lost all sense of time as the external heart slowly pumped a solution of formaldehyde into the dead woman 's body , as the dead woman 's body began to blush . |
| 17 | He created that sense of surprise on the ice , going on to become probably the skating world 's leading choreographer . |
| 18 | And , as Italians have little sense of obligation to the state , relinquishing sovereignty to Brussels is no sacrifice . |
| 19 | It should also be noted that many of the otherwise unemployed have little sense of attachment to the organisation for which they work and regard the jobs they have as transitory . |
| 20 | Family feelings and any sense of monarchs as a divinely blessed group had in general little hold on them . |
| 21 | Yet the yawning emptiness out here upon the vast deck already seemed to be swallowing any sense of connexion with the interior of the fortress-monastery … |
| 22 | Headphones listening splits the left/right signals too dramatically and , for most people , fails to provide any sense of space in the frontal ‘ cone ’ . |
| 23 | The Hopi did not seem to need any sense of time as a dimension . |
| 24 | Children , he found , shared his own sense of wonder about the world . |
| 25 | I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail . |
| 26 | With ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ we wanted to express our own sense of humour through the track . |
| 27 | the listening skill of noting — behind the teacher 's breezy rejection of anything that looked to him like advice — his own sense of failure with a failing pupil ; i.e. understanding how one difficult situation ( failure for the pupil ) may be ‘ mirrored ’ in another ( failure for the teacher ) , with consequent reinforcement of the difficulty through re-enactment of the symptoms by the teacher |
| 28 | It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer . |
| 29 | The horrible details of the 1914–18 war undoubtedly serve to heighten the poignancy of this feeling , and the creative energy of the war poets evokes its own sense of loss for a stable life snatched away , amidst ‘ the shrill , demented choir of wailing shells ’ . |