Example sentences of "not in the sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I have just offered have been partial readings of the Haec Vir pamphlet and The Roaring Girl , partial not in the sense ( at least this is not what I 'm confessing ) of being distortions of the texts , but rather readings that focus upon textual elements which can be correlated with oppositional cultural elements within Jacobean society , and consequently possible audience positions and reading responses . |
| 2 | It is conceivable that some electors actually misled the pollsters , not in the sense of lying deliberately but in the sense of ‘ letting off steam ’ . |
| 3 | True , they are filter-feeders , but not in the sense of turning a dirty , unmaintained , pea-soup pond crystal clear . |
| 4 | Yet even when a person maintains the principle of non-violence , as Gandhi does , it is absolute only in the sense that it informs the spirit and circumstances in which acts of violence are done , and not in the sense that it constitutes a rule which permits no exceptions . |
| 5 | In the preceding section we emphasised the fact that revelation in Scripture is ‘ receptor-orientated ’ , not in the sense of affirming the hearers by telling them only what they want to hear , but by speaking specifically to their situation so that they can not miss what they need to hear . |
| 6 | The original people are ancestors of the Chewong in so far as they represent the mythical past , but not in the sense that they are transformed dead of today . |
| 7 | But other concerns seem to centre around whether animals might properly be said to be happy or free from worry' , not in the sense of being healthy and free from pain but rather with the human paradigm in mind . |
| 8 | Perhaps not in the sense of de Maria or Ericson and Ziegler but surely so in the sense that the idea of it often takes precedence over all other of its aspects . |
| 9 | Perhaps , and perhaps contentiously , it was because the general insurrection had not taken place at this time : at least not in the sense that it involved trial by battle . |
| 10 | Well I mean not , not in the sense that |
| 11 | Altogether , then , we can say the tune is predictable , not in the sense that without knowing it we are sure exactly what is coming next but in the sense that when we hear the next phrase , our reaction is , ‘ yes , I thought something like that was coming ’ . |
| 12 | Not in the sense that the term is being used here , since the changes are arbitrary , not motivated , and not consistent ( the waitresses ' uniforms remain red in the kitchen ) . |
| 13 | You 're talking about have and have not , but have and have not in the sense of money surely class is not just money ? |
| 14 | What I was gon na suggest is that , we actually put something in the bulletin , not in the sense of , well , you know please report your illnesses kind of thing , but if we just make people aware of actually this sort of environmental control thing would be a good idea . |
| 15 | It ‘ is more dynamic , not in the sense that it expresses movement ( which a noun can also express ) but because it creates more activity between the words of the sentence in which it is used ’ ( 1955a:75 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Laura took life very seriously — not in the sense of discussing world politics but just her own life . |
| 17 | Instructions should be unambiguous , but in selling an ambiguous trigger may be used ( not in the sense of deceit ) because the salesman knows that different listeners will react in different ways . |
| 18 | Now they were assumed to be — well , gay , but not in the sense he acknowledged . |
| 19 | As he had stressed in The Rock this was not in the sense of information , but rather in the sense of consciousness of values ; and he deplored a situation where the term society implied simply a group of ‘ well connected ’ and affluent people , which had almost no relation to that other group or society which maintained moral and intellectual standards , which for him was the church . |
| 20 | Jesus ' resurrection means that we will not die , not in the sense of eternal death . |
| 21 | Not in the sense that I work for any authority . |
| 22 | Although the , the hub of the sails is more or less in the centre of this photograph it 's not in sent not in the sense of , of the area of vision because you 've got a lot of dark area here so that tends to move the centre of vision so it becomes this bit , if you like , and so that 's not in the centre there . |
| 23 | This was a court society : not in the sense sometimes imputed to the ancien régime of a parade-ground where a despot brought his nobility to heel , but an elite world where within shared conventions political conflict was contained and consensus was continually re-formed and re-enacted . |
| 24 | I mean , in fact , what , what er , what Freud found , he says is sometimes , you get erm , this is in fact a kind of continuing from conscious and unconscious , and there 's a big gradation in between , and very often erm , things are erm , unconscious , not in the sense that they 're totally lost , and you are unaware of them , but for example , they 're , they 're isolated . |
| 25 | Not in the sense that the County Council went out and did a measured assessment which said , Right this particular district can accommodate X thousand dwellings in areas which are n't greenbelt or which are greenbelt or individual factors . |
| 26 | Not , erm , not in the sense that there are in manufacturing because erm , simply from the fact that , in the scale of production , is n't really erm it 's not under the farmer 's influence as much as manufacturing production is under the erm , certain enterprise 's influence , because it 's er , risky |
| 27 | Not in the sense that the practical outcome of research on problems in developing countries would not , we hope , be positive . |