Example sentences of "sense [prep] [noun] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists have been penetrating areas beyond human senses , and they have developed more and more devices to augment our senses in order that we may see into the heart of matter or reach the ends of the universe . |
| 2 | She looked at him with a rising sense of panic that she tried to conceal . |
| 3 | She had gone from happiness to misery and back again in what seemed no more than hours , and the speed of the changes had left her with a sense of unreality that she found impossible to shake off . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet , at the same time , practical programmes that ignore justice in retributive terms are not only likely to prove unacceptable , but are also likely to be self-defeating : the sense of injustice that they generate militates against the effectiveness of their programmes . |
| 6 | This resentment , this sense of injustice that they have put in more than their fair share of time , energy and guts , was the most frequently struck note . |
| 7 | All heroes are in some measure anti-heroes , after all , if the term means that they are opposed to some antiquated sense of heroism that their creators are eager to question or discredit . |
| 8 | From afar it looks like the classical volcanic cone and it is with a mounting sense of excitement that I climb the last section of loose lava gravel and sharp , welded lava rock . |
| 9 | It is therefore not only with a sense of excitement that I approach my new responsibilities , but also with a keen awareness of the importance of IT to industry , to the service sector , to research and to the strength and wellbeing of the UK as a whole . |
| 10 | It was with a considerable sense of agitation that she found herself opposite room number four . |
| 11 | The audience got his sense of concern that his heiress daughter would be happy . |
| 12 | Thus although the general attitude of the public is sympathetic to the mentally handicapped in our society , there remains an overriding sense of pity that they are as they are , and a feeling that there has to be some degree of segregation between them and the rest of society . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I may share with others the sense of wonder that none of us could have believed in 1987 that the most significant international changes would take place . |
| 17 | It was with a sense of relief that we slunk east again , through a surprising ( but apparently intermittent ) east-west tide rip through the narrows of Akar Bogazi , for Kekova Roads . |
| 18 | He had , and was going to have , the worst hangover of his life , but even in the throes of it he was aware of a sense of relief that they were staying there , they were not going to Greece . |
| 19 | It was with a sense of relief that he made his way alone into the bar and ordered a glass of champagne . |
| 20 | Despite her situation , Folly felt a illogical sense of relief that he had n't spent the night in Lexy 's bed . |
| 21 | ‘ Will you be going to Somerset too ? ’ she asked and it was with a sense of relief that she saw him shake his head . |
| 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 | Suddenly she was assailed by a tangle of emotions , not least among them a silly sense of relief that she knew was totally out of place . |
| 24 | Such was his sense of purpose that he did n't notice . |
| 25 | There seems to be a lot of anger locked up in a sense of competition that he apparently directs first and foremost against himself ; and it is clear that his endless tampering with his swing must have at least as much to do with mind-control as with bodily mechanics — either that , or Faldo has a very perverse and forgetful body indeed . |
| 26 | She took off her hat and laid it on the table , and he saw with a sense of shock that her hair was white down the line of the parting where the tinting had grown out . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | People often feel a sense of frustration that they are not moving up quickly enough when they join ICI . |
| 29 | So it was partly out of an illogical sense of obligation that she began to read his book on Aurae Phiala . |
| 30 | And they might use the sympathy ( and sense of guilt that you 're better off than they are ) you feel towards them to control you . |