Example sentences of "at least [prep] the sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw that Lewis would not re-enter Christianity by a new door but by the old one : at least in the sense that in taking it up again he would also take up again or reawaken the prejudices so sedulously planted in childhood and boyhood . |
| 2 | Poetry was a specialized activity , at least in the sense that few people made or recited poems in public . |
| 3 | This meant that an older social critique , whose pedigree went back hundreds of years , was expanded to take account of juvenile employment in such a manner as to make the critique more subtle , at least in the sense that some reformers began to suggest that the combination of juvenile psychology , conditions of labour and industrial training was influential far beyond the workplace and on a scale previously unrecognized . |
| 4 | If you are fortunate enough to own , or to find , an incunabulum or book printed before 1500 , do not be too alarmed if it has no title , since many books of the period had none , at least in the sense that we understand , the publisher/printer contenting himself with a curt statement of the title and author 's name , known as a ‘ label title ’ , or else a small introductory paragraph ( sometimes using a different coloured ink ) known as the ‘ incipit ’ , from the Latin ‘ it begins ’ . |
| 5 | I have no strikingly original view of machines and consciousness to offer , nor shall I present a survey of the views of those in artificial intelligence ( AI for short ) who have discussed their relation , for the simple reason that there are none , at least in the sense of well-articulated philosophical views . |
| 6 | So is the cold war giant , at least in the sense that a mighty military machine with no visible threat to its well-being might be said to be dead . |
| 7 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 8 | For the most part , however , those who in this century have disliked or feared democracy , at least in the sense of popular power , have found more subtle and sophisticated ways of formulating these traditional sentiments . |
| 9 | The family is a central institution of modern British society , at least in the sense that almost everybody has had experience of living in a family at some time in their lives . |
| 10 | For , if in variable ways , the new technologies of cinema , sound broadcasting , sound discs and cassettes , television , video cassettes and tape recorders all embody systems of access which are direct at least in the sense that they are culturally available within normal social development , without any form of selective cultural training . |
| 11 | So it is no longer such a hypothetical question to ask , if the nation state were to be abolished ( at least in the sense that it was no longer governed by a sovereign government directly accountable for its actions to the people ) , would a new form of democracy , perhaps more potent than that offered by the nation state , rise from the ashes ? |
| 12 | A dedicated cook with a demanding job outside the home will probably need their kitchen to be that much more functional than someone with more leisure to shop — at least in the sense of providing good storage and extra quick cooking facilities , such as microwave oven and a freezer . |
| 13 | Our insights into the competitive nature of the market process and its entrepreneurial character teach us that the two notions of competition and entrepreneurship are , at least in the sense used here , analytically inseparable . |