Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the way the subject is exposed to an anonymous gaze that always remains open , which puts any sense of personal identity into question . |
| 2 | An explanation which makes eminent sense to everyone is to blame the victims of the crisis for the crisis . |
| 3 | From now on they 'll be released through Ultimate , which makes perfect sense considering that Ultimate is the label that launched Levitation and The Belltower and this sounds like a wild cross between the two . |
| 4 | Overall , the modifications to the management of the system resulted in an increase of about 25% of the total agricultural output , with a change in emphasis towards fish production and export ( which makes economic sense because of the high value of fish in the marketplace ) . |
| 5 | Not for professional historians so much as for people who really did want to have a version of England 's past which makes some sense sort of sense now . |
| 6 | This range of factors all create changes which result in the constant need to rethink and repackage IM principles in the light of current business plan priorities and technical developments and to express them in a way which makes cultural sense within the organisation . |
| 7 | A takeover is only worthwhile if it is at a price which makes commercial sense . |
| 8 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |
| 9 | In contrast to the immediate post-war generation of Conservative leaders , Churchill , Eden , Butler , and Macmillan , she has little sense of guilt ( ‘ bourgeois guilt ’ was the phrase she used in New York to the Institute of Economic Studies on 15 September 1975 ) for the unemployment of the 1930s . |
| 10 | I THOUGHT it was terrific when David JoHansen of the New York Dolls delivered such quips a : ‘ Who cares about the music when one has such sense of drama ? ’ and , ‘ We do n't play too good but we can dance as bad as we want , ’ and ‘ We do n't hold concerts — we throw parties ! ’ , and ‘ It does n't bother us when people say that we ca n't play , when we met we actually could n't , ’ etc , etc , but all these sweeping statements were launched in 1973 , and when those same epigrams are repeated three years later by lesser mortals ( i.e. Sex Pistols , Runaways , Ramones and Kiss ) , things begin to look synthetic . |
| 11 | When examining the structure of local government and establishing the local government commission , one could not make any better start than the appointment of Sir John Banham as the chairman of the commission if one wants common sense , quality decision making and a tough-minded approach . |
| 12 | Lurching along in this enclosed space , one loses all sense of direction . |
| 13 | One gets this sense of the safety net in relation to various different types of assistance : money , child care , accommodation , even personal care , where it runs counter to the notion that the most natural first line of support for elderly and dependent people is their families . |
| 14 | We can guess at the relative dating of the units , but unit one makes most sense as a secondary feature , since it seems to be butted on to unit two , with banks overlaid south of the mill . |
| 15 | He does not go abroad much which is as well since he has little sense of direction and has twice been found many miles from home wandering the streets . |
| 16 | He has more sense than you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Not if he has any sense . ’ |
| 18 | This fellow 's excuse for putting his shovel into the public purse is that he is executive producer of the Wogan show , something he keeps to himself in public places if he has any sense . |
| 19 | Any Halfling within 5 feet of this tower is allowed a WP test ( +20 if he has Magic Sense ) . |
| 20 | He has common sense . |
| 21 | It can provide a precis only where the topic is something that it knows about , so that it has some sense of what conceptual relationships to expect in the story . |
| 22 | Marginally quick-tempered , he sees little sense in having to field a barrage of questions when he might feel that his score tells its own story . |
| 23 | It seems good sense for us to take advantage of such bounties of nature in order to conserve the limited resources of their coral reef habitats . |
| 24 | Whatever the results of investigation , it seems common sense to avoid feeding cows , which are ruminants anyway , with dead , possibly diseased sheep . |
| 25 | It seems common sense to place the taller varieties at the back of the beds , or in the middle if they are to be seen from all angles , but other points can also be taken into account . |
| 26 | It seems common sense to say that if the Minister transfers the pension rights of existing employees of the Scottish Transport Group to the new privatised subsidiaries he will , by definition , sign away the substantial benefits that the employees enjoy under the existing scheme . |
| 27 | So we , the answer is we do n't really know but it seems common sense to apply barrier precautions and to do everything you can to modify the type of surgery so that the chances of having an injury with a sharp instrument are reduced , and people have made some constructive proposals along these lines . |
| 28 | He does n't suppose he makes much sense to her , but it 's nice she listens . |
| 29 | Paradoxically it provides this sense of freedom to choose , but the process of play activity is about limiting the choices . |
| 30 | It makes little sense , for example , to require that children have a command of formal vocabulary before they are competent in technical vocabulary or vice versa . |