Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] sense [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Some of them undoubtedly were pirates in the straightforward sense that they were ready to seize and plunder any passing ship without regard to the religion or nationality of its owners , but Spanish charges ranged much more widely . |
2 | Such triumphalist narratives can be empowering in the symbolic sense that they invest ethnic minorities with special powers of knowledge and action . |
3 | Thru is ‘ deconstructionist ’ in the additional sense that it places itself in multiple positions within the field of literary discourse . |
4 | One important question remains unsettled , namely , whether there can be a conviction for assault on a constable when the constable is not actually on duty in the technical sense that he has reported for his shift at the requisite time . |
5 | Sometimes they are sexist only in the subtler sense that they reinforce the idea of an absolute , all-pervading sex difference . |
6 | This phrase is crucially ambivalent between the idea that they are constant because they are necessary and the idea they are necessary only in the tenuous sense that they are reliable because constant . |
7 | There is general consensus in the research studies that physical punishment does ‘ work ’ in the limited sense that it will suppress many behaviours quickly and completely — the latter only if alternative ( competing ) and desirable behaviours are encouraged with positive reinforcement ( rewards ) . |
8 | , Jewish and proud of it , and South African by origin , was an iconoclast in the limited sense that he saw it has his duty within the government and outside to tell people , officials and politicians when he considered that they were wrong . |
9 | In the full sense that them , we 're talking about . |
10 | So I 'm uncomfortable , but in the positive sense that I did n't go to no acting school , so all I 'm doing is being myself . ’ |
11 | None in the conventional sense that I take it that you mean mark down you mean clearing merchandise |
12 | These are defences in the strict sense that they place on the defendant a burden of proving his innocence , on the balance of probabilities . |
13 | My own view is that the Turks do not interpret the course of the war in the same sense that we do . |
14 | ‘ This woman here is not a moral agent in the same sense that I am , or that you will become . |
15 | And in that act we believe that in a spiritual sense that we are lifted up . |
16 | Crashing the car , taking someone else 's life with them , terrible situations , terrible tragedies can come about because a person physically goes to sleep so it can be in a spiritual sense that we can nod off to sleep and not only our lives are involved , but our fellow brothers ' and sisters ' too , |