Example sentences of "[be] [prep] some sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the LDDC , in spite of all the hype and political prominence , been in some sense a failure ? |
| 2 | I argued that the representational theory of mind , with its assumption that thinking is the possession of determinate ‘ mental states ’ which are in some sense encodings ( pictorial , syntactic ) of actual or possible states of affairs , contributes to the difficulty of the mind-body problem . |
| 3 | The repeated confirmation of the correlation between the physical characteristics of the stimulus and the characteristics of the neural activity it triggers , and between the characteristics of the stimulus and that of the subjective sensation , has encouraged the belief that our sensations are in some sense to be understood in terms of a set of stimulation levels ( spiking frequencies ) in the appropriate sensory pathways . |
| 4 | Not only biologists : politicians , too , have sometimes liked to argue that political systems based upon competition are in some sense ‘ natural ’ , because competition is such an essential part of nature . |
| 5 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 6 | Wordsworth returns again and again to his main problem , whether we are in some sense ‘ led ’ by spiritual agencies — notice that he is not sure , and carefully qualifies any dogmatic statements — or whether we are alone responsible for what we become . |
| 7 | Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word . |
| 8 | All new starts are in some sense experimental , a revived realism not least ; and it is after all mildly experimental , in a way , to return to a half-deserted tradition forged in England two hundred years before in the age of the Hanoverians . |
| 9 | Moreover , that history and that revelation to which Christians necessarily make reference are in some sense normative for the religion . |
| 10 | The meaning of a typical sentence in a natural language is complex in that it results from the combination of meanings which are in some sense simpler . |
| 11 | The latter are in some sense ‘ given ’ to individuals in the act of observing , but there is no straightforward step from those private experiences ( which will depend on factors peculiar to each individual observer such as his expectations , prior knowledge , etc. ) to an observation statement that is meant to describe the observed situation . |
| 12 | Surely ( so the argument might be continued ) the interesting cases of knowledge are those which permit meaningful questions about criteria , and such cases necessarily involve states of affairs that are in some sense publicly accessible . |
| 13 | We conclude that even though the algebraic and denotational semantics characterises exactly the same equivalence over occam , they are in some sense complementary . |
| 14 | Historians , of course , might feel at this point that they are in some sense losing control over what material is selected for future use ( Zweig 1992 : 181 ) . |
| 15 | We noticed in our initial , cursory discussion of integrity in the last chapter that many of our political attitudes , collected in our instinct of group responsibility , assume that we are in some sense the authors of the political decisions made by our governors , or at least that we have reason to think of ourselves that way . |
| 16 | Yet they can be shown to be in some sense the implicit guardians of morality . |
| 17 | For Kelsen , the dynamic principle is characteristic of legal positivism which understands law to be in some sense a product of human acts and decisions rather than a deduction from timeless and immutable principles . |
| 18 | It is said that if the Logos is to be conceived to be in some sense male , then equally the Spirit is to be held to be female . |
| 19 | Their fate should , therefore , be in some sense at least exemplary : opportunity was certainly offered to them , they had choices , at eighteen the world opened for them and displayed its riches , the brave new world of Welfare State and County Scholarships , of equality for women , they were the elite , the chosen , the garlanded of the great social dream . |
| 20 | However , since representations of satyrs are often given negroid features , there is a suggestion that negroes were considered to be in some sense monstrous . |
| 21 | The sacrilege lies in the desire on the part of the murderer to mutilate what we understand to be in some sense the image of God . |
| 22 | In other words , while there may be in some sense ( possibly a historical one ) a relatively simple form of language in which clauses contain only a single occurrence of assignment , there is also a more elaborate form in which complexes containing assignment can themselves be used as elements in the construction of other clauses ; acceptance of this conclusion is not particularly demanding , given the observable facts of language use . |
| 23 | Whatever you write , it should be in some sense original . |
| 24 | If " foot-based metres " are mentalistically real , the process of their composition may be in some sense teleological . |
| 25 | For him , the first question is , ‘ By what criteria do we come to locate or mislocate sensations as being in some sense of ‘ in ’ in the right knee or in the pit of the stomach ? ’ , as though it were obviously not simply a matter of having the sensation in a certain place . |
| 26 | Ryle asks , ‘ By what criteria do we come to locate or mislocate sensations as being in some sense of ‘ 'in ’ in the right knee or in the pit of the stomach ? ’ |
| 27 | It seems perfectly possible that the creation — or re-creation , if one accepts that Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih were in some sense Muftis — of the office of Mufti to which Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan were appointed represents the first step in the creation of the office to which Fahreddin Acemi was appointed , a groping towards the concept which was fully realized in the office held by the latter . |
| 28 | Paternalist assumptions were an aspect of the deeply entrenched feeling , which time and education were only slowly eroding , that legitimate rulers were in some sense the agents of God . |
| 29 | There is a self that coheres over time , so that a person p 2 at time t 2 is in some sense identical to the person p 1 at time t 1 . |
| 30 | A final question which must be asked in this section is whether Leapor 's view of female friendship is in some sense lesbian . |