Example sentences of "sense of [noun] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because of the preeminent roles played by the senses of vision and hearing in Man and partly due to historical reasons . |
| 2 | She gained a few necessary pounds in weight too , and it was all due to the quiet and calm of the house , Marguerite 's soothing presence and an entirely unexpected sense of peace and belonging . |
| 3 | By keeping a sense of direction and watching your timing throughout the project , you reduce to a minimum the risk of last-minute panic . |
| 4 | it 's terrible , awful showing her sense of responsibility and doing what she says she 's going to do . |
| 5 | There is friendly gossip and fun in conversation , and above all a sense of caring and looking after each other . |
| 6 | Particularly after divorce or separation this may be essential for a sense of independence and starting again . |
| 7 | The intention is to facilitate better communication and a greater sense of ownership and sharing . |
| 8 | You need a sense of purpose and belonging , too . |
| 9 | This shows how successful ageing depends on finding a continuing sense of purpose and meaning in life , which itself draws on earlier life experience , activities and interests . |
| 10 | That sort of activity is light years removed from the drama of the Russian steppe , the pioneering excitement of the outback or the storm-lashed sense of achievement that taming the Atlantic brought . |
| 11 | However , once the technique has been mastered , and provided lots of space is left , making a set of notes with powerful punch and instant accessibility gives as much sense of achievement as going round the golf course under par or making a successful rugby try against strong opposition . |
| 12 | You will find out that sportsmanship , respect for your opponents and for the rules are all factors which will add to your enjoyment and sense of achievement when playing any sport . |
| 13 | Such was the sense of outrage and feeling for the family after the murder that collections were made in towns across the province . |
| 14 | He may feel that his doctor has prematurely terminated his assessment of his problems , thereby increasing his sense of helplessness and discouraging further discussion with the doctor . |
| 15 | The egg shape is a clue to building in the sense of rhythm when drawing the small birds ; you can practise drawing ovals and thus build up bird shapes . |
| 16 | Being valued and recognised ; a dependable security ; a sense of continuity and belonging . |
| 17 | But Dostoevsky did not want to surrender the tract of suffering bounded by the sense of being and doing nothing but one 's thoughts . |
| 18 | Dyspnoea ; they wake from sleep with a sense of suffocation , a sense of choking which can come on in the first sleep , a sense of strangulation when lying and especially when anything is around the neck ; neck is very sensitive to touch . |
| 19 | But it should also be a reminder to some of the inveterate statisticians to keep a sense of perspective when measuring some of the spectacular cap hauls of today against , say , the 20 caps of the great Ross Logan . |
| 20 | I feel a bizarre sense of loss and yearning . |
| 21 | Underneath these myths of management , both as giving a sense of status and defining process , we noted that there was a good deal of depression and despair . |
| 22 | The handful of stories that she wrote for children were remarkable for their strong sense of place and feeling for landscapes she had never seen . |
| 23 | Indeed , printmaking can help to sharpen our sense of design and drawing skills and can give a welcome diversion from other work . |
| 24 | Yet the Japanese term normally used for the transfer , ishin , is more correctly translated as ‘ renovation , — a term which implies not retrospection but a sense of renewal and looking forward . |
| 25 | It is from these uncertain interstices that there emerge Fanon 's challenges to Enlightenment ‘ Man ’ , and indeed to the very idea of an essential human subject ; Bhabha finds in Fanon a powerful and subversive sense of identity as involving a split , precarious , contradictory relation to the Other , the upshot of which is a radical ambivalence , destructive but also potentially empowering . |
| 26 | Should we take account of only the material standards of village life or should we include such an apparently ephemeral notion as what is colloquially referred to as ‘ community spirit ’ , the sense of identity and belonging , which the inhabitants feel ? |
| 27 | It is a sense of defeat and having to start over again . |
| 28 | Perhaps , as he himself later suggested in his memoirs , he was assailed by a sense of living and leading in a less heroic era than that of the 1940s . |
| 29 | According to this , ethical propositions do not say something which can be either true or false in the sense of reporting or misreporting how things really are in some realm of values ( though we can call them ‘ true ’ or ‘ false ’ to signal our agreement or disagreement ) . |