Example sentences of "[verb] in a sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | she 's being under-utilized in a sense . |
| 2 | Or they can converse in a sense that they can get a chord progression or a melody together that actually works , and says something , irregardless of the words . |
| 3 | He had to suffer in a sense by playing in midfield but , with Robbo back , I do n't expect to be playing him there . ’ |
| 4 | They are enjoyed in a sense by the whole family . |
| 5 | Even when the carer is a relative , when dementia is the disease carers may feel as if the old person has in a sense already died and left them so that ‘ this is not the mother I used to know ’ . |
| 6 | Because the countryside involves working the land , and that land has in a sense been here forever , there appears to be something eternal about rural life , its rhythms and patterns , that city life can never reproduce . |
| 7 | ‘ the Kipling who limped out of the wreckage , shrunken and wry though he looks , has in a sense had his development as an artist ’ — Edmund Wilson : The Wound & the Bow |
| 8 | Well I suppose it has in a sense , yes , it 's enabled us to both confront the fact that that I 'm not all knowing and that I 'm not all powerful , which I mean was because my children , as I say , are still quite young , which is something new for them , I suppose , as well as something new for me . |
| 9 | Other philosophers argue that free agents need to be self-directed ( or ‘ autonomous ’ ) and hence need to choose in a sense not cashable as the effective satisfying of desires . |
| 10 | It came in a sense to represent opposition rather than power , which was assumed by the mainstream Sunnis . |
| 11 | It is also why the proper analysis of a work of art does not result in a sense of fragmentation but instead enriches the interweaving of its fabric . |
| 12 | I mean we , we clearly do not have a socialist society even at the end of land reform as we , as we 've seen in a sense we 've created a , a private enterprise system which is based on equalities within capitalism . |
| 13 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 14 | So we , we , we 've got in a sense this holding exercise of rent reduction , interest rate reduction but we are going to need a new land reform document to take us through , I mean certainly once we get to nineteen forty nine and we are in power , th th we , we are gon na want land reform are n't we ? |
| 15 | On the other hand , we realise that professional clinicians coming to the book might remain unconvinced about some of our chosen examples , as indeed might those readers who only feel comfortable with terms like ‘ schizophrenia ’ when they are used in a sense that has been given medical approval . |
| 16 | about the situation and sort of used in a sense about somebody 's situation . |
| 17 | ( b ) There can be no doubt that as a result of the Boer War the 20th century in England , opened in a sense of national doubt . |
| 18 | The standard grief reaction going through the five phases of denial , anger , bargaining , depression and finally acceptance over a period of two years but sometimes with progressive insulation of emotions resulting in a sense of isolation . |
| 19 | ‘ Institutions ’ here should be understood in a sense consistent with Weber 's sociology of religion , in which the institutions of the church mediate between the prophetic reactors of religious ideas and the ‘ laity ’ ( Bourdieu 1987 ) . |
| 20 | The particle being exchanged in a sense ‘ borrows its mass from the force field ; the heavier the mass , the shorter the time it can be borrowed , and , therefore , the shorter the range of the force . |
| 21 | It was he who tended most to be swallowed up by the show 's overall style and it was therefore he who became in a sense ultimately dispensable . |
| 22 | Diplomatic activity and international agreements became in a sense tactical , adhered to only when upholding the pursuit of the all-important ‘ self-sufficiency ’ . |
| 23 | He thus became in a sense a monarch , though one whose powers were strictly limited and often jealously scrutinized by the provincial estates . |
| 24 | In the first case , either interpretation is fully acceptable — it can be either Farjeon or his style of undressing which has the quality of being clumsy ; and quite possibly the existence and use of such sentences provide the interpretative syntactic basis for the type which follows it , which therefore represents in a sense a second order of syntactic patterning . |
| 25 | In that well yeah I mean in a sense er that 's right because if you think about it , in eighteen in eighteen fifteen er the great powers stayed in existence mainly because of a fear of a of of fear of France . |
| 26 | Yes I mean in a sense that just sort of shows that a lot of people would agree with Lakehoff in the sense that they think that women use a lot of tag questions and have that speech style , erm I mean like we 've been able to see , and what we can say is that men and women 's language is different er and it 's even possible to say in what way it 's different , but the difficulty becomes when we actually want to say why those differences are . |
| 27 | And deal with the issue actually on the Economic Development Committee budget , because er , I mean in a sense , Economic Development Committee has n't always played the game , you never know when you 're being asked to identify target reductions by an authority , they have found those target reductions , so have the Planning Committee , so have Trading Standards . |
| 28 | I mean in a sense they were just sacrificing peasants for that strategy . |
| 29 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 30 | Well , we 're going to continue with press releases after lunch , but let me just , I mean in a sense , those were fiction . |