Example sentences of "in its [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its botanical sense tundra is a working abbreviation for arctic tundra vegetation , the tough , low-lying vegetation that typifies the arctic treeless area . |
| 2 | But this of course is an exaggeration ; it exists in the still-literate public — the customers , used in its correct sense , of the booksellers , and those who are in a real sense custodians of England 's literary culture , the staff and students of the Universities and large copyright libraries . |
| 3 | Until the Industrial Revolution , farming in Britain ( in its combined sense ) remained predominantly small-scale , mixed , and locally self-sufficient . |
| 4 | He co-authored a paper in which he identified these mountains , which cover a quarter of the island , as an ophiolite , using the word in its modern sense . |
| 5 | Thus a ‘ school ’ can be literally that , in its modern sense : an institution in which there are a master and pupils , whose characteristic work can be identified . |
| 6 | The first recorded use of " strike " in its modern sense is probably in the evidence of a journeyman tailor at the Old Bailey in 1765 , but the thing long pre-dated the word . |
| 7 | Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense . |
| 8 | What I intend to do in this column is to explore and explain rhythm in its purest sense — from the point of view of notation , theory and practical application . |
| 9 | To a Hindu or Buddhist Initiate , ‘ well-being ’ in its highest sense would mean ‘ enlightenment attained ’ . |
| 10 | But much of it is equally applicable to debentures and many of the statutory provisions expressly apply equally to them , though it is clear that when they do so ‘ debentures ’ is usually used in its narrow sense of debenture stock or a series of identical debentures and not in its wider meaning of a single mortgage , charge or bond . |
| 11 | Suppose we were to begin with a crude distinction of ‘ social nature ’ and ‘ social culture ’ , in which the latter were conceived in its narrow sense as representation rather than in the broad sense as symbol . |
| 12 | The business-like approach is right , but there is something disturbing in the implication that intellectual stimulation and education , in its wider sense , have little to do with passing the exams . |
| 13 | Having outlined the key features that have been used to distinguish positivist criminology , in its wider sense , it remains to consider the manner in which they have actually been manifested in the different causal theories that have been proposed . |
| 14 | Adult education is to be understood in its wider sense of continuing education ( Venables , 1976 ) that it is with reference to teaching undertaken in adult education institutes , community colleges , in further and higher education , as well as in organisations within the private sector of industry and commerce and the numerous private language schools . |
| 15 | It is for this reason that in this book I ordinarily use kinship in its wider sense . |
| 16 | There will be a Movement Awareness Workshop devoted to the exploration of movement in its wider sense . |
| 17 | And if any words could be found in the Statute which provided that besides paying Income Tax on income people should pay for advantages or emoluments in its wider sense ( such as I think the word " emoluments " here , has not , for reasons to be presently given ) , there is no doubt of Mr Tennant 's possession of a material advantage , which made his salary of higher value to him than if he did not possess it , and upon the hypothesis which I have just indicated , would be taxable accordingly . |
| 18 | Culture in its wider senses is investigated in Archaeology , Philosophy the History of Art , and Scottish Studies . |
| 19 | I interpret " practice " in its broad sense of the practice of a range of skills . |
| 20 | It is important to remember that the Enlightenment as a set of economic or administrative reforms could be conscientiously and effectively applied by men indifferent or hostile to it in its higher sense as a movement transforming the human consciousness . |
| 21 | When used with the bare infinitive , it denotes a direct experiencing of , and so contemporaneity in time with , an occurrence and can often be replaced by see — although it denotes perception in a more abstract way than the latter — or by have in its experiential sense : ( 93 ) Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season . |
| 22 | But , in its usual sense , wider share ownership does not . |
| 23 | In view of the absence of any definition of ‘ domicile ’ in the Act of 1988 , the Commission considered that , if the term was to be construed in its traditional sense , it must be assimilated to nationality . |
| 24 | Structure , which can also be opposed to material , is a broader concept than both form , in its traditional sense , and device ; it embraces all aspects of a literary text , from sound to subject matter , and it includes both those which are defamiliarized and those which are not . |
| 25 | This supposed boundary of the Pacific plate almost exactly parallels what was once called the Andesite Line : a zone surrounding the Pacific , on the outer edge of which are found rocks of an andesitic — acid — variety , and within which nearly all the rocks are of a more basic kind , using the word in its chemical sense . |
| 26 | The poem is egocentric both in the strictly linguistic sense in which John Lyons uses the word and in its normal sense . |
| 27 | Marketing too , in its strictest sense , is outside our remit . |
| 28 | The assertion is correct if ‘ simultaneous ’ play is taken in its strictest sense . |
| 29 | The role of unreasonableness in its substantive sense is conceived of as a safety net to be used after tests such as relevancy or purpose . |
| 30 | Hence the controls over the substantive ends which can be pursued by an administrative authority are expressed in terms of relevancy , purpose or unreasonableness in its substantive sense . |