Example sentences of "[art] sense of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Throughout the whole period Britain remained " Great " in the sense of ruling over the largest empire in human history . |
| 2 | It has been argued that it covers not only fairness , in the sense of fairness to the accused , but also in the sense of ensuring that , in the eyes of the public , the highest standards of justice are upheld and it appears to the world at large that the accused is getting a fair trial . |
| 3 | Thus the two end products of the development of modern culture , its degree of abstraction and its degree of specificity , are the component parts of the sense of alienation in the modern world . |
| 4 | The sense of outrage on the part of both Marx and Braverman at the crippling effects ( physical or spiritual ) on many workers of the division of labour within capitalist enterprises is fully justified , but their unitary and rationalistic conception of the total subordination of labour to capital leads them to an overestimation of the role this division of labour must play in the formation of social collectivities : the extraction of any ‘ skill ’ content from labour for the mass of workers ; the homogenisation of ‘ simple labour ’ in all branches of production ; the cheapening of labour power ; increasingly intolerable oppression — these tendencies are bound to overwhelm any secondary differentiation of the workers by branch or by enterprise and lead to the formation of a revolutionary proletariat . |
| 5 | It follows in virtue of this control that companies have power not only in the sense of discretion over the allocation of resources between different uses , but also in a more invasive sense of an ability to influence individual desires and conduct . |
| 6 | Shame : the sense of hopelessness of the disease leads to a belief that the sufferer is not a worthwhile person . |
| 7 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 8 | Its core is the sense of rejection of the most private and intimate parts of themselves , because that is what women in love offer so generously to men . |
| 9 | Tillich distinguishes between the Buddhist concept of compassion on the one hand , and the Christian concept of love in the sense of agape on the other . |
| 10 | firstly , the interpretation of normalisation which seems to us to be in line with the sense of direction of the self-advocacy movement recognising that people with learning difficulties need to be seen as autonomous individuals with their own rights of self-determination ; |
| 11 | It is difficult to imagine the sense of kinship between the two men which Lear implies in his letters to Gould . |
| 12 | The notice-board in the workroom contains heartfelt letters of thanks from those who have received their new books and it is clear that the sense of involvement in the lives of real and unfortunate people in the outside world draws a very positive response from the men involved . |
| 13 | The sense of shock at the decision in Germany yesterday had not dissipated . |
| 14 | As Gallie puts it , summarising Mallet , ‘ Integration , in the sense of identification with the enterprise and its overall performance , becomes then a necessary corollary of the desire to further one 's own interests ’ ( Gallie 1978 , 18 ) . |
| 15 | In fact in many small firms the sense of identification with the family is real indeed because employment may be confined to kin relations . |
| 16 | The couple 's new record will be available from Friday with Eddie Crozier undertaking the marketing and will certainly help to keep the fans in tune as the sense of expectation throughout the county mounts with each passing day . |
| 17 | ‘ The shadow of the dome of pleasure ’ flashes past on the waves like a sequence of film , while the poet reflects on what he has seen previously , the only thing now remaining being the sense of wonder amidst the conciliation of paradox and the momentary solution of metaphysical inquiry : |
| 18 | In the late medieval period , although the sense of unity in the Church was stretched to near breaking point as the upsurge of spiritual enthusiasm from the grass roots which had been fostered by the Church 's own mission for reform since the thirteenth century became viewed as a potential threat by the establishment , there was nevertheless a fruitful tension between individual and corporate senses of identity . |
| 19 | His pleasure at the escape had for some reason given way now to even more sadness in the presence of the eagles that were still caged , as if the escape of one had intensified the sense of imprisonment of the others . |
| 20 | The sense of Britishness has been supplanted or supplemented by Scottish and Welsh nationalism ; the sense of identity with the nations of the United Kingdom is not felt so strongly by minorities in the population — Moslems from Pakistan and India , Afro-Caribbeans , Indians , Bangladeshis and others who experience discrimination in the British community while also experiencing a sense of belonging to their own religious and ethnic communities . |
| 21 | The arrows show the sense of rotation of the patterns . |
| 22 | By April the sense of crisis among the Six receded when it was agreed to quicken the pace towards a customs union still further . |
| 23 | It says much for the sense of humour of the untidy , bespectacled architect that after the initial shock of the Princess 's request , he accepted the relatively minor commission of building a dolls ' house for the Queen with enthusiasm , and immediately visited the Princess to discuss the project , bringing with him a mutual friend , Sir Herbert Morgan , President of the Society of Industrial Artists . |
| 24 | Some felt a shudder at the thought of tackling the sense of humour of the Prophet Muhammad and the holy imams of Islam , and counselled that the subject matter should be confined to modern times . |
| 25 | For [ fa ] some of them felt a strong shock just at my thinking of tackling the subject of the sense of humour of the Prophet Muhammad and the holy imams of Islam and advised me to confine my research to modern times . |
| 26 | In each case the denial and the sense of compulsion of the addiction are almost insuperable difficulties for the individual to attempt alone . |
| 27 | Active life in the sense of engagement with the physical necessities and well-being of society belongs properly and sensibly to people who feel no inner compulsion towards , or understanding of , spiritual issues — as he much more trenchantly put it , they have " no sauour " of " goostli occupacioun " ( 12.123 – 4 ) . |
| 28 | Yet Anglicans had always allowed for passive resistance , in the sense of non-compliance with the ungodly commands of the sovereign , so long as one peacefully accepted the punishments for one 's disobedience . |
| 29 | To heighten the sense of commitment of the partner in charge of the external assessment , the assessors ' report should be signed in his or her own name on behalf of the firm of external assessors . |
| 30 | Both allow that the individual 's sense of justice is an important consideration both for its own sake and for the sense of commitment to the social contract that is as important for controlling crime as was deterrence . |