Example sentences of "and it be [prep] [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , however , Liberal Theology has become a recognised description of the Ritschlian school , and it is in that sense that it is used here . ) |
| 2 | Instead of being an act of service , making money and owning things can become purely selfish activities ; and it is in this sense that our Lord issues the warning that ‘ you can not serve both God and Mammon , and tells the story of the very prosperous farmer who is destroyed by his self-indulgence . |
| 3 | For each of these divisions we would find inequalities of outcome and it is in this sense that one can assert that we have failed to achieve equality of opportunity in England . |
| 4 | This whole situation is , for Freud , a necessary construct for his group psychology , and it is in this sense logically prior to any other construct , or hypothesis , developed in psychoanalytic theory about groups . |
| 5 | In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors . |
| 6 | Schizophrenic speech provides a metaphor for metaphor , and it is in this sense that its use in Out may be understood , not as a valorization of the psychotic condition but as a literalization of the figure . |
| 7 | This last procedure , ‘ the exploitation of formal resemblance to establish connections of meaning ’ , Culler characterizes as ‘ the basic activity of literature ’ ( 1988:4 ) , and it is in this sense that the pun can be seen as a cognitive model which accounts for the ‘ literariness ’ of even the most rigorous forms of language use . |
| 8 | There were , however , some true ministers , typified by the two witnesses of Revelations xx , and it was in this sense that he described himself as ‘ an unworthy witness ’ of the Lord . |
| 9 | But under international law neutralisation originally referred to a more specific regime and it was in this sense that Soviet international lawyers in the 1950s understood it . |