Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] sense [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Hybrids such as the mule are generally unable to have offspring , but in a less restricted sense they are fertile . |
2 | But in a much wider sense it is also noticeable , in reconsidering the examples of present Anglo-Irish relations with which this chapter opened , how there exist apparent similarities between at least some current English discourses about Ireland and Spenser 's . |
3 | But in a more sophisticated sense it means that the level of unemployment ‘ is not controllable by variations in demand-management ’ [ ibid. , 96 ] . |
4 | But in a more important sense he would be wrong , for there is no such person as he had in mind and I would have been there all the time . |
5 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
6 | My involvement with separatism lasted five years , but in a very real sense it will never leave me . |
7 | Nor were any examples found of we or you co-occurring with a singular verb , and in a very real sense it is this constraint which distinguishes the Belfast vernacular concord system from that of other non-standard varieties . |
8 | Mr Broom says : ‘ The hypnotherapeutic approach is considered particularly relevant for assistance in distance running because in a very real sense you are competing against yourself . ’ |