Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 2 | The right to invalidate legislation obviously in one sense invades the principle that each department has an independent sphere of action and a right to take its own view on matters of constitutionality . |
| 3 | It was completely fantastic , yet had a simple , conventional plot about love and marriage running through it ; her story contained every deviation from the conventional storyline of marriage possible yet was , in every detail , true , and so in that sense not fantastic at all . |
| 4 | Since the effects of the damage are largely restricted to language , the disruption can not affect the whole brain , so in that sense we are justified in thinking of the brain as consisting of functionally independent modules . |
| 5 | So in that sense again in the language of of the old old ten sixty six and all that it was a good thing . |
| 6 | So in that sense , the build the , the equities have kept pace , but if you think in the short term , you 'll always be out of , out of order with shares , if you 're thinking of going in for three or four years , you you 're likely to get your fingers burnt . |
| 7 | So in that sense er very unlikely you would get a an apprentice squad that served their time together and went right on through to retirement age or whatever . |
| 8 | Our region 's got a free vote on this document so in that sense I 'm not necessarily expressing the views of the region . |
| 9 | So in that sense , your role is purely advisory . |
| 10 | So in that sense we 're below average . |
| 11 | Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets . |
| 12 | In fact , nearly all our best friends from way back now live in the States , so in that sense it 's like home from home . |
| 13 | So in that sense , it 's that we 're incestuous . |
| 14 | I think a lot of people are put off computing by the thought that it 's very technical and very difficult to get into , and I think in some ways it still is and there 's a sort of group of experts who rather jealously guard their knowledge , so in that sense , yes , they could short cut and remove skills that perhaps people should have . |
| 15 | It 's obviously more specialized than some of the education erm at comparable level in other countries , both in France and in Germany erm they take erm as their eighteen-plus exam erm an exam which covers a rather wider field , erm so in that sense , oddly , we specialize early , which is an interesting comparison . |
| 16 | Though that 's beginning to be qualified a little because of the erm effects of erm national legislation , for example national employment legislation nowadays requires that all employers in a certain field of employment , and universities is one , erm pursue similar policies towards their staff , and indeed in our case erm pay them on the same pay scales and erm so in that sense we have to enter into agreements with trade unions and others which are binding on our members . |
| 17 | So in that sense the resources per student , the funds per student have in fact erm come down by in the region of erm fifteen per cent over the last ten years or so very roughly speaking already , and that 's a very considerable reduction in provision . |
| 18 | So in that sense , we are not a volume car producer and er the company historically , I mean back through the seventies and sixties was a not very successful volume producer . |
| 19 | So in this sense a contradiction has principal and secondary aspects . |
| 20 | So in this sense the approach is a pragmatic one , which bears on the here and now rather than on eternity.i At the same time , to formulate the problem in terms of interests , as I have done , is to focus attention on the moral priorities embedded in holism and individualism . |
| 21 | One-to-one tests may include topics other than simple arithmetic , so in this sense " oral " is equivalent to the APU type of " practical " test . |
| 22 | An argument which pulls in the opposite direction is this : even when the government or a governmental agency is , for example , making contracts , it is doing so in some sense as representative of the citizenry at large and must bear the interests of the community as a whole constantly in mind . |
| 23 | In that sense the traditional notion of Picasso as a more conceptual artist than Matisse holds but I think only in that sense . |
| 24 | Much of the subsequent development of literacy , and the eventually general extension of printed matter , can then only in one sense be treated as an ‘ expansion ’ . |
| 25 | The first part of this chapter begins with the structural factors — especially the religious , family and community links — which drew and held abolitionists together in that sense of fellowship . |
| 26 | Thus in some sense everything is mentally internalised , retained and inwardly possessed ; that is our only defence against complete discontinuity in living , a distressing example of which we see in the man who loses his memory , and is consciously uprooted ’ |
| 27 | And there is still another way of understanding time , which is that when a mother gives birth , she is giving birth to time itself , to a ‘ life-time ’ , and she is thus in some sense beyond time itself . |
| 28 | Criminals were thus in some sense public benefactors ( this clearly being a case where crime does pay ! ) . |
| 29 | Shown in human form from the First and Second Dynasties like a primitive statue , he was as Tatenen the earth rising out of infinity and thus in this sense inherent in nature . |
| 30 | Elderly people are almost always in some sense part of a family with kin-related and social support networks . |