Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sharpest contrast is with migrants who have brought with them the expectation that sons will bring their wives into the homes of their parents , where in some sense the wives will be under the authority of their mothers-in-law . |
| 2 | It concluded , echoing the sentiments of Professor Smith , that the appropriate mens rea for rape was intention and recklessness and to go further ‘ would be to extend the definition of a grave crime to include conduct which , however deplorable , does not in justice or in common sense justify branding the accused as a guilty man . ’ |
| 3 | Christ is Lord , or in some sense unique . |
| 4 | They are symbolic products or in some sense ‘ signifiers ’ and include ‘ positions , programmes , analyses , commentaries , concepts , and events ’ produced by the professionals ( including journalists and psephologists , etc. ) of the field . |
| 5 | Indeed , one schema for interpreting the music would be in terms of a continuous struggle to constitute collective subjects ( defined by mixes of class , gender , age , nationality and ethnicity criteria ) , against both the culture industry 's tendential ‘ mass subject ’ , and , equally , the ‘ individual subject ’ of the avant-garde ( or in another sense , of bourgeois memory ) . |
| 6 | ‘ The Pru did not have a budgetary system before I joined , the accountants produced some numbers every year but they were not comprehensive or in any sense management information . |
| 7 | No special dress was needed and one never had to feel that one was on show or in any sense making a public appearance . |
| 8 | Can I suggest to him , in relation to this issue , that patriotism does n't come into it — except in one sense . |
| 9 | What he means is that although in one sense the competitively won money is very desirable — it gives a terrific boost to Imperial 's research and , because many of the contracts are from industry , keeps the university closely in touch with the real world — it actually contributes next of nothing to the core costs of the college , of which , of course , academic salaries are the largest single component . |
| 10 | Meaning for them was not to be defined in terms of use or behaviour , but as a mental entity independent in an essential sense ( as ‘ intension ’ ) of the material world , although in another sense ( as ‘ extension ’ ) related to it . |
| 11 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 12 | It is musically unrelated to The Art of Fugue , but its presence in this context — Bach dedicated his poignant revision of the piece during the last months of his life — is neither inapposite nor in any sense to be regretted . |
| 13 | In the final analysis , it may be that national states and their control agencies are relatively autonomous of a particular social class , and that in that sense could , under the right circumstances , become an instrument , at least for a specific and limited objective , of any particular class or alliance of classes or pressure groups . |
| 14 | It has already been pointed out that there was no authority on the precise issue raised by Morgan , so that in that sense the House of Lords could not be said to have changed the law . |
| 15 | So that in that sense the fundamental orientation is likely to change even less erm than one , than might have been the case if there 'd been a more radical change . |
| 16 | Edith J. Morley , for instance , writes of the " inexplicable value " of great poetry , and advances the view that such poetry " can explain itself only " by existing " so that in one sense every attempt at an explanation , however worthwhile , is doomed in advance to failure , or , at best , only partial success . " |
| 17 | It is important to remember that in one sense , music , being a performed art , always has an ‘ oral ’ dimension , even when notated ; writing a score certainly affects how the music is conceived , but not absolutely , for performance may restore some inflectional , intuitive elements . |
| 18 | It is very true that in one sense it must be implied that although there is no existing difference , still that a difference may arise between the parties : yet I think the distinction between an existing difference and one which may arise is a material one , and one which has properly been relied on in this case … |
| 19 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |
| 20 | The upshot of this is that in this sense of " power " as of many like terms-it is at least arguable not only that a cause has a power to produce its effect , but also that an effect has a power to produce its cause . |
| 21 | By exposing the story of the silencing of women which underlies Herodotus 's project , the novel demonstrates that ‘ originary myths ’ are at the heart of factual descriptions about the world , and that in this sense women , by virtue of their historical ties with the discourses of fiction , have a privileged relation to the voice of knowledge . |
| 22 | And I think that in this sense his life was a failure , that he was never able to live up to his scientific naturalism , that he was never able to integrate his romantic nature with his view of the nature of the universe . |
| 23 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 24 | If so , we can allow that in some sense the value of the society is a matter of the values actualised in the distinct lives , while insisting that these values could only be actualised within just such a society . |
| 25 | We may note that although Moore thinks that in some sense what one should do is what looks most likely to be one 's duty in the sense of that which will produce the best consequences , it is unclear what meaning he can ascribe to this ‘ should ’ . |
| 26 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 27 | The general assumption is that in some sense speakers use language variation , consciously or unconsciously , to signal various kinds of social identity and social aspirations . |
| 28 | Sarah : I define myself as a socialist lesbian feminist , but of course that in some sense begs more questions than it answers . |
| 29 | I sometimes think , he wrote , that if in one sense I am back in the nursery trying to make a big toy with nothing but wood and string , in another I am back in the classroom fiddling with bunsen burners while Mr Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air . |
| 30 | Now it is frequently said that the development of skilled movement ‘ lags ’ a long way behind that of skilled perception , and in one sense this is certainly true : young babies have excellent visual acuity as revealed by their behavioural discrimination of , and neural responsivity , to gratings and chequerboards — but we do n't see them playing darts ! |