Example sentences of "[pers pn] in [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet … do I in any sense believe that poor old Eddy shall put on immortality ? |
| 2 | So you do n't think you 're going to have any problems in your career by having sort of the men getting the juicier jobs or dominating you in any sense ? |
| 3 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 4 | Fourthly , the appellants were never auditors of B. & C. That does not seem to me in any sense to be conclusive since the inquiry is into the affairs of Atlantic of which the appellants were auditors and as to representations made about it before acquisition . |
| 5 | The distribution system of the library suppliers gives them in this sense a considerable advantage . |
| 6 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 7 | While the party contains many who actively seek peace and reconciliation , it would be wrong to think of them in any sense as overcoming the basic conflictual components of bloc power in Ireland . |
| 8 | So we really we one of us to be here to look after him in that sense , one of us gets paid |
| 9 | The last thing she wanted was for Tom to take her under his wing , to regard her in some sense as his find and his property , but that was what was happening . |
| 10 | And , if there are limitations on our ability to make such inferences , are they in any sense serious or just casual , in that they would require more effort than anyone is normally prepared to put in ? |
| 11 | eventually return to work , were they in any sense identifiable as a a group ? |
| 12 | At the deepest level this is its symmetry with the social order within which it operates , and the ‘ non-market ’ or ‘ subsidized ’ type of production is often an aspect of this symmetry in that by selecting certain kinds of work for partial exemption from the market — kinds valued within the distribution of preferences within a received social order and a dominant social class — it in one sense protects the market from other kinds of social and cultural challenge . |
| 13 | It is difficult to think that Parliament intended the section to operate so capriciously and I would not construe it in that sense unless clearly constrained to do so by the statutory language . |
| 14 | which make it easier for you to stop and a lot of people do n't have the choice to stop , if you look at it in that sense . |
| 15 | Er Well that 's that 's really it in that sense |
| 16 | No I 've never campaigned for that , and I 've never supported it in that sense . |
| 17 | Crystal ( 1969 ) , pp. 100–4 , uses it in this sense ; see also Nolan ( 1973 ) . |
| 18 | What is at issue is whether improved resource levels should be used to make special schools internally more satisfactory , doing what they have historically done but doing it in some sense more efficiently , or whether those resources are used in an attempt to improve the general education service in ways which might reduce its need for transferring pupils to special schools . |