Example sentences of "sense [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter may not realise in a coherent way what is afoot , but it knows that the duty of a government is to provide law and order and senses that it is not deploying its resources to do so . |
| 2 | In other words , they must take into account another meaning of the word structure ( see page 70 ) in the sense that it is the basic framework fur the choreographic design . |
| 3 | The very particularity of the sacrament forces upon the penitent the sense that it is on the here and now — that row we had with the neighbours , the bad temper with which we did the washing-up , this specific uncharitable thought or unchaste deed — that salvation and damnation depend . |
| 4 | Umberto Eco 's magisterial novel The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ) , for example , plays on the dialectic between the reader 's curiosity about the medieval world and his/her almost total ignorance of it ( funnelled , as Eco explains in his Reflections on the novel , through the observations of the novice Adso ( Eco 1985 : 33–4 ) ; between the sense that the historical world ( the abbey and the cultural and religious context of the time ) is a world of its own and the sense that it is connected to the world of the reader . |
| 5 | I get the sense that it is a band 's first single and they are trying to prove something . |
| 6 | In the sense that it is an enquiry method , this is considered sufficient ; extending the analysis to produce a comprehensive information model of an organisation is possible , but this would require the use of additional software and then becomes a more specialised operation . |
| 7 | In recent years , there has been some return to the classical view that the real wage is too high and that unemployment is ‘ voluntary ’ in the sense that it is caused by workers refusing to accept wage cuts . |
| 8 | Yet it is not absolute in the sense that it is principle apart from morality on which morality itself is founded or a blueprint for conduct which allows for no exceptions . |
| 9 | It is not absolute in the sense that it is a rule which allows no exceptions . |
| 10 | For Brumfit , applied linguistics is seen as accountable to pedagogy in the sense that it is the teacher who is the ultimate arbiter of relevance . |
| 11 | Then there is toughened glass , which is homogeneous in the sense that it is all glass , but the outside , which is susceptible to cracks , is put into compression at the expense of a tension in the protected middle . |
| 12 | Many systems allow completely unrestricted programmability , in the sense that it is possible to call up any other application or to execute any system command . |
| 13 | His point is that although ‘ rules of grammar ’ are arbitrary in the sense that it is a mistake to look for a justification of a language game ( 331 ) , they are not arbitrary in the sense that ‘ our language game only works , of course , when a certain agreement prevails ’ ( 430 ) . |
| 14 | That it should need to be exorcised in that fashion , however , or at all , still leaves it looking potent , richly formative and far from innocent , and the fiction that ultimately emerges from it is ex-academic in much the same sense that it is ex-socialist . |
| 15 | ‘ This is the best art fair I 've done since 1989 ’ enthuses Susan Sheehan , a New York print dealer who sold twelve works , including a Matisse aquatint , for ‘ just under $100,000 ’ , and New York dealer Peter Findlay adds , ‘ There is a sense that it is alright to buy art again ’ . |
| 16 | More recently , however , Liberal Theology has become a recognised description of the Ritschlian school , and it is in that sense that it is used here . ) |
| 17 | It is undeniable that animals intend to do things in the sense that it is often true of them that unless interfered with they will go on voluntarily to perform various actions . |
| 18 | For although practices , and features of practices , are said to be mutually dependent , it is nevertheless possible that one may dominate the others in the sense that it is more efficacious in determining the character of other practices than they are in determining it . |
| 19 | In any social formation there is at least one class which , by virtue of its various determinations , is dominant in the sense that it is better placed to realise its interests than its rivals . |
| 20 | It also has a strong instrumental element , in the sense that it is most likely to happen when it is economically advantageous . |
| 21 | Rather , it treats them as ‘ given ’ , in the sense that it is seen as neither plausible nor fruitful to attempt a causal explanation of them . |
| 22 | Against rigorism , is the sense that it is rather absurd to lump all who are not utilitarian saints with actual wrongdoers . |
| 23 | This notion of freedom is positive in the sense that it is directly related to self-realization . |
| 24 | They lack the Catholic sense that it is scriptures together with the unfolding tradition of the church in which authority lies . |
| 25 | An organisation has an uncertain existence in the sense that it is dependent upon the will of the member States , and third parties dealing with an organisation must take account of this reality . |
| 26 | Even the recipe for George Washington 's mother 's gingerbread allegedly found " in an old worn cookery book " dated 1784 , of which the first item on the list of ingredients is ½ cup of margarine , could be said to be honest in the sense that it is candidly admitted that margarine is what is actually now used in the kitchens at Claverton Manor , the American Museum near Bath where both the gingerbread and the leaflet giving the recipe are purveyed to the public . |
| 27 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 28 | Their role has been structural in the sense that it is the social security rules , rather than personal failure or character defect , that are the relevant factor to be considered . |
| 29 | A public company is one owned by its members ; it is not public in the sense that it is nationalized . |
| 30 | This is dialectical , both in the sense that it is marked by many kinds of interplay , as we have seen , and in the sense that at each stage there is retention and extension of existing elements , as well as negation of them . |