Example sentences of "them a [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I bet that 's given them a real sense of purpose . |
| 2 | We believe that allowing these students to go straight from S4 to a level II general SVQ will give them a real sense of progression . |
| 3 | It gives them a much-needed sense of security , ’ he says . |
| 4 | It gave them a new sense of opening opportunity , a new reason for raising standards and expectations , new cause to doubt the wisdom of a system which excluded many children from the chance of a full academic education from the age of eleven , and a new hope . |
| 5 | Suddenly she was assailed by a tangle of emotions , not least among them a silly sense of relief that she knew was totally out of place . |
| 6 | Scientism is a not-unattractive doctrine , and was especially so to a rising professional middle-class who associated with it theories of eugenics and of mankind which gave them a pleasing sense of class and racial superiority ; but in the later nineteenth century there was no reason to anticipate these darker sides of progress . |
| 7 | Both sexes like the idea that women pretend , men because it confirms their suspicion that their partners are basically frigid and devious manipulators , women because it gives them a delicious sense of power to think that the delirium which men fondly ascribe to their virile prowess is no more than a hollow civility , like laughing at Grandpa 's jokes . |
| 8 | They preferred their little aerosols of teargas which gave them a false sense of security . |
| 9 | Perhaps it gives them a false sense of security . |