Example sentences of "sense of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared back at him , unable to speak , terrified of betraying the slightest clue that might jolt his memory , but conscious of a heartfelt sense of gratitude for the fever that had kept her so busy during the morning hours . |
| 2 | The laird , however , would have a short memory indeed if he did not feel a deep sense of gratitude to the man who could remove the spectre of this large indigent family becoming a charge upon his estate . |
| 3 | It is still with a sense of amazement at the flights of human inanity that Ruth Michaelis relates the experience of her brother Martin , who found himself in serious trouble with his foster family : |
| 4 | ‘ Creative ’ is an over-used word nowadays , not easy to define : The ‘ taste ’ of creative effort is sometimes a sense of at-oneness with the project , as though you and your task are sharing the same living energy . |
| 5 | An exhalation of irritation , a sense of panic in the man who was trained to recognise , to intuit , the signs of danger , the signals of need … |
| 6 | The act of producing the video helps to impart courage , self-confidence and a sense of interdependence to the group and encourage them to focus on a clear articulation of their situation . |
| 7 | In his speech to the Scottish County Surveyors ' Society , the Prince called on road engineers to continue their great tradition by building with ‘ sensitivity and even a sense of reverence in the countryside ’ . |
| 8 | The further question arises now of how the teacher brings together ( say ) history and art ( or mathematics , or music , or science ) in practical ways which really help the learner to achieve a genuine sense of coherence across the subjects . |
| 9 | Despite himself , he felt an overwhelming sense of aversion towards the young man who stood before him . |
| 10 | All such experiences induce a sense of unreality in the employee . |
| 11 | But the strangeness of the tropics and the sophistication of the almost-forgotten culture from which she had sprung had greatly exaggerated her sense of release from the frustrations of the past . |
| 12 | There 's a sense of release after the excitement , of fulfilment . |
| 13 | There is also a fair sense of fun about the place ; the lunar mock-up has signs warning kids to ‘ Keep on the Moon ’ . |
| 14 | He or she can feel a very real , very deep sense of nausea at the intrusion , and often find that they can no longer regard their house as home . |
| 15 | The pain in Corbett 's head subsided only to be replaced by a growing sense of nausea as the ship rocked and rolled on the water . |
| 16 | ‘ There was a sense of wonderment about the man , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Equally clear is the peasantry 's sense of injustice over the Emancipation settlement , their resentment against the landowning nobility , and their yearning to see all noble land made over to them . |
| 18 | On the other , their sense of injustice in the countryside was compounded by experience of urban conditions and bred a particularly acute sense of grievance , ‘ a uniquely volatile and dynamic mixed consciousness that combined a peasant resentment against the vestiges of Russian ‘ feudalism ’ [ i.e. serfdom ] with a proletarian resentment against capitalist exploitation in the factories . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ; |
| 20 | And how can it sustain this common cause and sense of direction through the many changes which take place from one generation to anther ? … |
| 21 | The SERC 's action , announced to 100 professors and heads of departments of physics at a meeting last Friday at Imperial College , London , is an attempt to stimulate some sense of direction among the majority of academic physicists who work in neither astronomy nor nuclear physics . |
| 22 | As for the Archduke , though I personally prefer a more tautly sustained sense of direction in the opening Allegro moderato , this performance as a whole reveals them at their best , with a truly rapt and spacious slow movement as prime proof of their vision . |
| 23 | Furthermore , he had an acute sense of deviation from the norm in any society . |
| 24 | It is difficult to imagine the sense of kinship between the two men which Lear implies in his letters to Gould . |
| 25 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 26 | When anger turns to violence we can see people actually withdrawing , actually pulling back , from a sense of involvement in the ideas and values that we are putting forward . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Representative government , parties and elections are now seen increasingly as providing an essential framework but as inadequate by themselves to establish a democratic society in the more radical sense of government by the people . |
| 29 | There is a strong sense of competence on the shop floor . |
| 30 | If this was delusion it was given a sense of realism in the immediate post-war world through the UK economy being clearly stronger than the economies of either Europe or Japan [ Barnett , 1972 ; Maddison , 1984 ] . |