Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' sense of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The escapers ' sense of urgency was intensified by Tuesday 's decision by East Germany to end visa-free travel to Czechoslovakia . |
| 2 | It uses movement and drama to develop the clients ' sense of self and to broaden their interests . |
| 3 | As Sinclair points out in his introduction ( p. xix ) , this fact about frequency does not determine the order of appearance of dictionary entries : there is the factor of the native speakers ' sense of what is the core meaning , for example . |
| 4 | The parents ' sense of disempowerment was at this stage complete . |
| 5 | Although such incidents rankled , the cutter crews ' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories . |
| 6 | But the miners ' sense of anger at the prolonged destruction of their industry is also worthy of note . |
| 7 | The first few months of life in the community were dominated by support workers ' sense of heavy responsibility about the twin tasks of meeting the women 's physical and medical needs and , at the same time , enabling them to be as independent as possible . |
| 8 | Employers in this period were either providing from the resources of their businesses or demanding from the state such measures as pensions ( which it was hoped would remove from workers worry about their future in old-age , and would enable employers to dismiss less efficient older workers with clear consciences ) , sickness benefit and medical care ( which would enable them to recover more quickly and fully from sickness ) and , more occasionally , unemployment benefit , which it was also hoped would increase the workers ' sense of security . |
| 9 | Their significance for Woolf was in contributing to prisoners ' sense of injustice . |
| 10 | While talking about the need to keep security , control and justice in ‘ balance ’ , Woolf appeared to emphasize the importance of justice , and the imbalance he was most concerned about was the prospect of security and control measures exacerbating prisoners ' sense of injustice . |
| 11 | But they also recognize the crucial role played by ideas of different kinds : for Bottoms the collapse of the rehabilitative ideal looms large , for Fitzgerald and Sim there are crises of legitimacy and authority , Woolf stresses prisoners ' sense of injustice , while Hall charts the creation of an ideology of law and order . |
| 12 | This cultural expression is used both as a safety-value of light , communal entertainment in situations which might otherwise be tense , boring and/or tedious , and also as a tool of protest in itself with which to unify and cement the groups ' sense of identity and purpose . |
| 13 | Until then , talk of cash limited budgets will only add to general practitioners ' sense of being required to make too many changes too quickly . |
| 14 | Many are concerned with the Soviet Union 's place in the scheme of things ; with the poets ' sense of revulsion at what a nation could have done to itself ; with an intense probing of the values of nationhood and nationality . |
| 15 | And they are a perfect testament to the canny Victorians ' sense of foresight . |
| 16 | As they relate to decision-making about priorities and responsibilities in the classroom , these differences must affect many English teachers ' sense of purpose and professional confidence . [ … ] |
| 17 | A worrying indicator of teachers ' sense of helplessness in dealing with such problems is found too in Kloska and Ramasut 's study . |
| 18 | Leaders have followers : people who recognise and find attractive the leaders ' sense of purpose . |
| 19 | Corbett also makes an interesting comment concerning tigers ' sense of smell , which has a bearing on their natural instincts — man not being the natural prey of tigers . |
| 20 | A different view of assessment however , can lead to considerable benefits in terms of the pupils ' sense of value and personal motivation . |
| 21 | It also contributes to debtors ' sense of hopelessness , because as soon as one crisis is sorted out , another hits them . |
| 22 | It is even possible that , far from weakening the Poles ' sense of their national identity , Nicholas 's educational endeavours gave it a fillip . |
| 23 | I can well understand the plaintiffs ' sense of indignation at the defendants ' breaches of the injunction , and the court will have to consider very carefully all aspects of those breaches when the inevitable contempt proceedings are heard . |
| 24 | Ukrainian peasants ' sense of their ethnic identity was poorly developed . |
| 25 | The students ' sense of achievement , heightened by the success of their carefully prepared and organised presentation , was an intended outcome fully attained . |
| 26 | A heightening of the students ' sense of political awareness was to be avoided . |
| 27 | Chapter 6 examines the way in which studying physics interacts with students ' sense of identity , and looks at how this differs for male and female students . |
| 28 | It will also begin to consider the extent to which humanities students ' sense of themselves is affected , adversely or otherwise , by the experience of studying their subjects . |
| 29 | We are interested in the relationship between studying a subject , and students ' sense of identity : the way in which the beliefs we hold about an academic discipline affect our sense of who we are . |
| 30 | I simply could not understand the boys ' sense of humour . |