Example sentences of "sense of being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went up to the Downs and at least I stayed in the saddle , and felt indeed a new sense of being at home there , of being at ease . |
| 2 | During the 1870s their sense of being at once indebted to and dependent on the masses generated a highly romanticized image of the simple virtue and integrity of peasant life . |
| 3 | As I read , I am struck again by the laibon 's sense of being at the centre of the universe . |
| 4 | I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges . |
| 5 | But , in the longer term , it promises to move the specialist closer to the levers of power , which have often eluded his or her grasp , leaving a sense of being on the periphery of events . |
| 6 | This sense of being on fresh ground where new aspects of behaviour , new distributions and even new species are still to be discovered , adds greatly to the book 's fascination as a comprehensive account of the family . |
| 7 | There is a sense of being on the boundary of management vis-a-vis workers . |
| 8 | Reference is made to the unconstructive nature of housework tasks , to the emotionally frustrating sense of being on a treadmill that requires the same action to be repeated again and again ; |
| 9 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 10 | A restless excitement stirs in him , a sense of being on the verge of deep and different things . |
| 11 | A restless excitement stirs in him , a sense of being on the verge of deep and different things … |
| 12 | The earthquake and eruption in 1980 were epic in the strict sense of being of national and supranational proportions . |
| 13 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 14 | Their near-simultaneity was coincidence , in the sense of being beyond all collusion and foreknowledge , though all were by graduates of Oxford engaged in teaching and over the age of thirty . |
| 15 | I 've more or less lost that sense of being with Arthur . |
| 16 | The Old Testament bears frequent witness to Israel 's sense of being under attack from her God , and being brought by him to the verge of extinction . |
| 17 | ‘ There was something subduing in the influence of that silent and solemn and awful presence ( the Jungfrau ) … one had the sense of being under the brooding contemplation of spirit , not an inert mass of rocks and ice — a spirit which had looked down , through the slow drift of ages , upon a million vanished races of men , and judged them ; and would judge a million more — and still be there , watching , unchanged and unchangeable after all life should be gone and the earth had become a vacant desolation . ’ |
| 18 | In both these shows , there 's an odd sense of being in some sort of parallel universe : it all looks the same , but the power structure has been weirdly distorted . |
| 19 | Her solution was to become so thin that she was extremely plain and ‘ ill ’ looking , and that way she felt she avoided the sense of being in competition with her mother , removing herself from the battle zone . |
| 20 | Thunder rolled over and round them from every direction so that Trent had the sense of being in the interior of an enormous drum on which giants beat from all sides . |
| 21 | With long-term stress , it appears that a sense of being in control makes all the difference — feelings of helplessness and inability to improve matters are the most damaging . |
| 22 | People want to sustain a sense of being in control , of still having a contribution to make . |
| 23 | The astonishing range of innovations made by this tireless giant of a man gave contemporary noblemen — never mind humbler folk — the sense of being in the hands of some alien , elemental force . |
| 24 | In Basse-Navarre the land starts seriously to rise ; there is more sense of being in the Pyrenees here than in the merely undulating Labourd . |
| 25 | The punishment should fit the crime in the sense of being in proportion to the moral culpability shown by the offender in committing the crime . |
| 26 | It was mentioned above that employees are subject to company power in the sense of being in an authority relationship with the employer . |
| 27 | She had such a strong sense of being in the right , of having behaved in a morally correct manner . |
| 28 | Here , the elements which are selected as focal ( them , he , and was ) are not new in the sense of not having been mentioned before , but they are new in the sense of being in some way contrastive . |
| 29 | For many of the disabled the greatest hardship they suffer is not the frustration and practical problems of lives that are limited by disability but the sense of being in some way segregated from the rest of society . |
| 30 | It was invariably a community centre , where the pot-bellied stove , the wooden benches , and the convivial sense of being in touch with the rest of the world drew local inhabitants to hear the news , discuss problems , and entertain each other . |