Example sentences of "in a sense [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a sense we were missing out by these sorts of policemen being unco-operative ( there were no policewomen like this ) , for those who have things to hide , even if it is only laziness , are a part of every police force . |
| 2 | So that in a sense we have all been clipping , fleaing , and paring . |
| 3 | In a sense we now live in a forgiven world . |
| 4 | Like all his brothers , Charles was destined to outlive his wife ; and in a sense we may not wonder at that fact . |
| 5 | ‘ In a sense we were all to blame . |
| 6 | In a sense we were still in the aftermath of being one person . |
| 7 | In a sense we do not really need to ask the question ‘ Does unemployment cause crime ? ’ or ‘ Do the under-privileged offend more than privileged . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |
| 9 | But we then took a view about , about future years because in a sense we 've always been , obviously had to provide for the er , year impression . |
| 10 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 11 | So we we , in a sense we 've got a a clash of of principles or a conflict , between for example , the government wanting the the Lincolnshire Tech to have an hundred per cent output related funding , based on jobs and N V Q's which is not er er perhaps , er an easy way of delivering output related funding services to people who 've got special training needs . |
| 12 | look in early nineteen forty eight where we are , wh where the land reform process had taken the Communist Party tt and then we could begin to look forward to where policy was going to go from there in terms of the military , political , economic , ideological future and what I 'm going to do today to , to begin with anyway is , is to just consider where we are and where it is we 're gon na go and in a sense we could , it might be helpful to , to put ourselves back in a position of being the central committee again . |
| 13 | We 're a bio-technology company and in a sense we 're going to the Mecca of bio-technology . |
| 14 | I mean we , we clearly do not have a socialist society even at the end of land reform as we , as we 've seen in a sense we 've created a , a private enterprise system which is based on equalities within capitalism . |
| 15 | Well in a sense we were able to give this very quiet manner and very enthusiastic , very explicit , very kindly , very polite erm man his chance to relive for a moment erm this great contribution that he made in the past . |
| 16 | ( In a sense they must have worked in tandem since Liebknecht , whose English was n't very good , addressed primarily German-speaking crowds . |
| 17 | In a sense they were victims of a paradox ; they had chosen their middle way in order to retain their identity ; yet it was to be this very middle way which convinced others that they had relinquished it . |
| 18 | In a sense they had little alternative on account of Israel 's refusal to accept the return of the refugees and the refugees ' own outright refusal of resettlement . |
| 19 | In a sense they were n't really controllable . |
| 20 | Actually , in a sense they are acting in their own best interests : the whole point of the life/dinner principle is that they theoretically could resist manipulation but it would be too costly to do so . |
| 21 | Tolkien , of course , being a Christian , did in absolute fact believe that in the end all things would end happily , that in a sense they already had — a belief he shared with Dante , and a matter of faith beyond argument . |
| 22 | They were tricked into doing so because , although in a sense they entered voluntarily , they would not have entered had they known the true nature of the shop and its managers . |
| 23 | The true Cubists , on the other hand , while they made their discoveries intuitively , were nevertheless very conscious of the fact that they were the beginning of something completely new ; in a sense they were anti-traditionalists . |
| 24 | Both Kubla and the Abyssinian maid are human creations so in a sense they are God — but Coleridge 's hubris in wanting to be God himself is doomed to failure . |
| 25 | In a sense they were integral to the structure of Frankish politics , serving to strengthen the bond between the Merovingian family and the aristocracy . |
| 26 | In a sense they , they were back now in , in the situation that they , they needed support from the peasantry quickly and surely the way to do that was to offer them land , to give them land reform because rent reduction interest ra interest rate reduction is not enough . |
| 27 | I mean in a sense they were just sacrificing peasants for that strategy . |
| 28 | In a sense they have kept me young . ’ |
| 29 | A lot of women do this , they 're very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they , they lay the foundations , right from the very beginning , of boys ' growing up to think of women as kind of household servants . |
| 30 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |