Example sentences of "sense in [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sense in which the government had an overall strategy was in its continued determination to maintain full employment so far as was consistent with a fixed exchange rate . |
| 2 | I certainly assure the right hon. Gentleman that there is no sense in which the Government want positively to discriminate in favour of one type of schooling over others , because parents have a right to choose . |
| 3 | Yeah , so , so Okay then the general I 'm for is that in a subject verb object sentence there 's very important sense in which the verb and the object go together , they form one unit and one constituent of a sentence , whereas subject and verb do n't . |
| 4 | Here is another sense in which the child is not ‘ object ’ but ‘ person ’ , with a right to be heard , without an accompanying and inappropriate responsibility to decide . |
| 5 | And I suppose there 's a sense in which the child gains because the parents are that much happier and fulfilled ? |
| 6 | None the less , there is a real sense in which the notion of urban culture in a particular locale is important . |
| 7 | Games , in the special psychological sense in which the word is used in transactional analysis ( see page 167 ) , are closely allied to strokes and discounts ( see pages 156 and 55 ) . |
| 8 | It is true that the qualities of an object are only the various ways in which we or other minds are affected by it , and these affections are not the same in different objects , except in the sense in which the word same stands for exact similarity . |
| 9 | ‘ These affections are not the same in different objects , except in the sense in which the word same stands for exact similarity . ’ |
| 10 | But this , of course , makes no serious claim at all about the notion of consciousness , in the sense in which the word is normally used : it simply sets up a definition of the term on which virtually any organism higher than an amoeba is conscious , as would be many existing computers . |
| 11 | It seems to me that this is a situation the reverse of liberal and even the reverse of democratic , in the sense in which the word has hitherto been understood . |
| 12 | Plowman J stated at p596 : The arrangement in my view must be looked at as a whole , and looked at in this way , I find it impossible to say that the Respondent did not provide the trustee with an income … in the sense in which the word " provided " is used in [ what is now TA 1988 , s663 ] ; that is to say , as importing an element of bounty . |
| 13 | There is a sense in which the existence of nationalism , or more accurately , of old-fashioned nation-states on the periphery , can be convenient to hegemonic power-blocs . |
| 14 | Indeed there is a sense in which the clarity of his spiritual and theological doctrines inhibited clarity on political issues by relegating them to a position of relative unimportance : they led Anselm to believe that the system of joint secular and ecclesiastical responsibility for the functioning of the Church was as acceptable as any other . |
| 15 | There is , however , a second sense in which the idea of tackling a problem from both ends , and meeting in the middle , is relevant to the brain . |
| 16 | There seems to be no sense in which the idea of the Commonwealth can be said to have developed from Indirect Rule , but the similarity of the language employed , and the fact that enthusiasts for one were usually enthusiasts for the other , would appear to suggest that the two ideas sprang from the same rich soil , composted over the years of imperial fact and imperial fancy . |
| 17 | There is a real sense in which the worker has limited choices of occupation and , consequently , he or she makes the best of what work is available . |
| 18 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
| 19 | The only sense in which the legislature can be properly said to have authorised these things to be done is that it has enabled the Poor Law Board to order , and the managers to do them , if , and when , and where , they can obtain by free bargain and contract the means of doing so . |
| 20 | It is clear both secondary selectivity and distortion in an ideology violate the standards of empirical social science , in a sense in which the value-science integrate does not . |
| 21 | There is a further sense in which the Settlement Laws assisted the building up of labour forces in manufacturing . |
| 22 | There is a sense in which the hero of Kundera 's novel Life is elsewhere , published in Britain in 1986 , is also the hero of Klima 's collection of stories My First Loves , published here in the same month of the same year . |
| 23 | First , the sense in which the strategy is evolutionarily stable is that no other strategy ( among those considered in the model ) can do better than it . |
| 24 | There is a strong sense in which the audience for research is other researchers . |
| 25 | In sum , then , there is no reason to believe that , in a complex machine , the real processes can be inferred reliably from any number of observations of internal behaviour ( in the sense in which the changing of register contents expressed in binary numbers is internal behaviour ) , in the absence of knowledge of a quite different type : the language in which the processes have been expressed to the machine . |
| 26 | If ‘ crisis management ’ in this sense ( different from the sense in which the phrase is normally used ) is impossible , there is only one alternative open to management in creating the felt need for change . |
| 27 | Nevertheless there is at least one sense in which The Lord of the Rings can claim ‘ mythic ’ status , which is as ‘ a story embodying the deepest feelings of a particular society at a particular time ’ . |
| 28 | That this is the sense in which the term is later used can be confirmed by another piece of evidence . |
| 29 | The sense in which the term is used is formal-legalistic , and implies that accountability is largely one way ( i.e. of teachers to employers ) and that accountability procedures involve sanctions ( e.g. withdrawal of resources and other forms of support ) . |
| 30 | Novice readers of anthropological monographs should not suppose that the technical sense in which the term kinship is being employed bears any close relationship to the kinship with which they are already familiar as the result of their own domestic experience . |