Example sentences of "through a sense [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Chief Supt Dave Thompson , who is in charge at Sefton , the division where the murder took place , said : ‘ The family feel alone and isolated and they are going through a sense of frustration and they need to know more information . ’
2 She knew she wore the scarf through a sense of guilt , a gesture to her family to say that she had n't forgotten her religious upbringing .
3 Mr Lewis apart , however , the other guests , perhaps through awe , perhaps through a sense of antagonism , kept a wary distance from M. Dupont , a fact that was conspicuous even in that generally guarded atmosphere , and which seemed to underline all the more the feeling that it was M. Dupont who somehow held the key to the outcome of the following days .
4 Our own work found that one in three managers appeared to go through a sense of crisis in their late thirties .
5 It seems to me that the really critical thing that has happened since the emergence of the gay movement is the affirmation of our identity through a sense of community , through an involvement with each other .
6 He saw the pains of imprisonment and used truth as the agent of change , not from any intellectual theory or ideology but through a sense of compassion for other human beings .
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