Example sentences of "be in [det] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded . |
| 2 | There has been in this sense de-differentiation in the postmodernist attempt to drain the aura from the work of art . |
| 3 | Has the LDDC , in spite of all the hype and political prominence , been in some sense a failure ? |
| 4 | Not only are many consumers injured by corporate crime ; thousands of employees too suffer from ‘ accidents ’ at work ( which are in fact not pure accidents but events which spring directly from the conditions of production and are in that sense avoidable ) or work-induced diseases , such as asbestosis , lung cancer , and mesothelioma . |
| 5 | However , because these provisions are avoidable where there is no intra-group trading , they are in that sense preferable to the alternative , and mutually exclusive , provisions in s78 Finance Act 1988 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Moreover , that history and that revelation to which Christians necessarily make reference are in some sense normative for the religion . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We conclude that even though the algebraic and denotational semantics characterises exactly the same equivalence over occam , they are in some sense complementary . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When that time arrives the discretion of the local councillor will be seriously limited , and it is also questionable whether such directives are in any sense democratic . |
| 21 | That is not to say that necessarily they are in any sense physical , that a theory which identifies the mental with the physical , or some of the physical , is forced upon us , whatever our attitude to such a theory . |
| 22 | When , in Britain , it is suggested that the policies of the Conservative Government towards local authorities since 1979 raise constitutional questions , what is meant is not that these policies are in any sense illegal , but rather … that they breach hitherto accepted understandings , albeit tacit , as to how relationships between central government and local authorities should be ordered . |
| 23 | Hence we do not need to argue that the judiciary are in any sense part of a gigantic conspiracy ; they merely act according to their beliefs which inevitably reflect their class interests . |
| 24 | ( Care is required over this last point because we have no reason for supposing that the programs unc are in any sense " simpler " than he complete program . |
| 25 | That is not say that those whom it is hoped to benefit are in any sense undemanding or unsophisticated . |
| 26 | Natural law and rights theories , positivism and contextualism , are in this sense no longer incompatible theories of the law but enter into the legal languages or dialects which are spoken in different or even in the same legal systems . |
| 27 | Laws , whilst they are in force , are in this sense inalienable . |
| 28 | I do n't feel I 'm in any sense vaudevillian or melodramatic . ’ |
| 29 | In this more specific area of debate , the issue is whether or not the child will be so badly handicapped that it will be unable to sustain a life which society would consider to be in any sense worthwhile . |
| 30 | It can not be in any sense hierarchical . |