Example sentences of "have a sense of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also has a sense of humour . |
| 2 | He 's as intelligent as Jim was , has a sense of humour and irony , and he 's one hell of a singer . |
| 3 | Many people swear that their horse has a sense of humour , especially when it likes tipping them off ; but it is possible of course that these people actually have a considerable sense of humour themselves to put up with the vagaries of their horse ! |
| 4 | Luckily Mr Melding , 29 , a corduroy-clad career Tory who runs the Welsh Centre for International Affairs in Cardiff , has a sense of humour as black as the local coal . |
| 5 | AUGUSTA may indeed be august , though less snooty than might be imagined , but somebody there has a sense of humour and mischief at least . |
| 6 | It 's vital that everyone has a sense of belonging to the school and is kept fully informed of events that are taking place . |
| 7 | Neither is it necessary to have what is known as a ‘ spiritual experience ’ — a single moment in time when the individual has a sense of himself and of the world in a way which transcends both the physical and the psychological . |
| 8 | They are communities in the sense that one has a sense of ‘ belonging ’ in them , and in the sense that Shetlanders belonging to each are said to be distinguishable by special characteristics in dialect or , less often ( and more humorously ) , by difference in mentality and general attitudes . |
| 9 | It 's very rare that you meet a woman as fine as she is who also has a sense of humour . |
| 10 | Significant because of its gay culture and tradition of liberalism , Amsterdam also has a sense of recent history which is lacking in Britain . |
| 11 | In both craft and continuous-flow production the worker has a sense of control over the work process , claims Blauner . |
| 12 | The Queen obviously has a sense of humour , as was evident from her hamming it up for the cameras . |
| 13 | The manager is , therefore , an individual who is willing to shoulder responsibility and , by implication , has a sense of duty . |
| 14 | ‘ He is taller than me and he has a sense of humour but I keep that side of my life very private , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's still sharp , has a sense of humour , he 's witty . |
| 16 | Is the more optimistic forecast to be made of the dutiful immature girl who has some mildly appreciative responses , knows her books and has paid careful attention to what she has been told to think , but who has few independent ideas and writes with neither firmness nor joy ; or of the mature and independent boy , who may not have studied his notes or perhaps his texts so thoroughly , but who has a sense of relevance , whose judgements are valid , who writes with assurance and betrays in his style … that he has made a genuine engagement with the literature he has encountered ? |
| 17 | Situations such as those described by Lewis and Meredith apparently fall within the range of what is regarded appropriate for a daughter who has a sense of filial duty . |
| 18 | However , it seems impossible to deny that each of us also has a sense of a self , or a centre of awareness , somehow within and integral to our ongoing experience , and such as to give a kind of unity to it . |
| 19 | As go-between , the area supervisor has a sense of responsibility towards his seniors matching his sense of loyalty to his field staff . |
| 20 | It has a sense of fulfilment , of completeness . |
| 21 | I do n't think the man has a sense of humour — how she lives with him is beyond me . |
| 22 | His life has a sense of purposive onward movement . |
| 23 | They say , ’ said Raynor thoughtfully , ‘ that Medoc , of all the necromancers , has a sense of humour . |
| 24 | In place of the usual 18th-century formality it has a sense of verité that a later age can find reassuringly informative . |
| 25 | The fact that later on , when her house collapsed in flames , she herself died in a freak landslide in the Morpork Mountains , proves that Death , too , has a sense of humour . |
| 26 | There is nobody jumping up and down for joy at the news , and morale , which has been comatose , now has a sense of mortality hanging over it . |
| 27 | They pause , watching her long walk across the grass , a supplicant walking up the cathedral nave , she has a sense of awe , her hands are cold and damp in spite of the heat . |
| 28 | And she also has a sense of humour . |
| 29 | One Conservative Member has a sense of humour . |
| 30 | On the other hand , we certainly are not looking for the bland , but rather for the anodyne which is also intriguing and interesting and has a sense of positive enthusiasm . ’ |