Example sentences of "[verb] [art] sense of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast with what it saw as the corrosive and unbelieving spirit of the age , that movement was deeply concerned to recover and reinstate the ancient doctrines of the faith , especially the great dogmas hammered out in the early centuries ; and with them to restore the sense of continuity and rich unbroken tradition which found its expression especially in ritual and liturgy . |
| 2 | The repetition of ‘ the woods decay ’ stress the sense of despair that Titonus feels . |
| 3 | Or , finally , knowing you always loved him and enjoying the sense of power this gave him , he ca n't quite believe that he does n't count any more . |
| 4 | MANAGER Trevor Francis revealed the sense of injustice that will fuel Sheffield Wednesday 's UEFA Cup challenge tonight . |
| 5 | But first of all you must eliminate the sense of panic which usually accompanies the realisation that you have lost something which is important to you . |
| 6 | An Asian single parent interviewed in Cohen and Sadiq 's study conveyed the sense of distress felt about having to turn to relatives for financial help : |
| 7 | Hughes admitted that one reason for the slow growth of the movement in Wales was that the Church of Wales was in a minority ‘ and there did not exist the sense of peril which , he feared , must be admitted , had done so much in driving them together in England ’ . |
| 8 | We hope to continue the sense of home , comfort , belonging , warmth and hospitality that we all felt was there . |
| 9 | In recounting the story of his life , he assumes a variety of identities and gives multiple conflicting versions of events in a contradictory attempt to acquire the sense of identity he has always lacked and to conceal himself from a world by which he has always felt persecuted . |
| 10 | All of these choices , it was felt , not only avoided the sense of incompleteness generated by ( b ) , but also rounded the story off more neatly with a short descriptive statement devoid of any actional content . |
| 11 | Some felt a shudder at the thought of tackling the sense of humour of the Prophet Muhammad and the holy imams of Islam , and counselled that the subject matter should be confined to modern times . |
| 12 | The immediate physical obstacles in the way and the suppressed anxiety about the threat of kidnap merge in the implied soliloquy which does half the work of describing the journey , intensifying the sense of danger and of nightmare slowness . |
| 13 | This is a useful typology for understanding the sense of abnormality which Easton 's section police operate . |
| 14 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
| 15 | The British tendency to choose to limit the size of families over the past 20 years , and the need to move around the country in search of better job prospects , has done little to increase the sense of community and neighbourliness which once absorbed so much of the responsibility for mutual support and so-called ‘ informal ’ care in the post-war years . |
| 16 | The decision to legalize Northern and Southern opposition groupings and to allow them representation in the transitional parliament only served to increase the sense of optimism surrounding unification . |
| 17 | She felt sick , but was relieved to feel something : the weight of the food in her stomach did something to counteract the sense of unreality that afflicted her . |
| 18 | This case illustrates the sense of hopelessness that may develop in the unemployed , especially when finding a job appears to be in almost impossible task , and how this may create other problems , particularly when a major life event occurs , such as the break-up of an important relationship . |
| 19 | The following extract from an interview illustrates the sense of togetherness which was apparent in some boards : |
| 20 | In concert with their second heart , this kidney could perform high-speed detoxification , while the Neuroglottis honed the sense of taste , specifically with regard to poisons — a fitting partner for the Preomnor and the Omophagea . |
| 21 | Continuing parental contact and interest can also eradicate or at least minimize the sense of rejection felt by many adopted people because of the act of relinquishment . |
| 22 | The subtle differences have brought a strength and depth of study to the discipline of building surveying and created the sense of identity so palpably missing in the 1960s . |
| 23 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 24 | This sort of treatment of course reinforces the sense of isolation and loneliness . |
| 25 | One of them , it contends , is the ability to communicate a sense of urgency to people who work for you without haranguing and without being unpleasant . |
| 26 | And it is there in his conducting of Debussy 's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , which the English Wagnerian Reginald Goodall once singled out as conducting that managed by some unique alchemy simultaneously to catch a sense of fire and ice , sultry heat and marble calm . |
| 27 | The 10-feet high palings , with their broad central gates and twin gas lamps , may not be as imposing as the metal fence around Buckingham Palace , but they do , in their modest way , suggest a sense of grandeur appropriate to a leader who has held office for 10 years . |
| 28 | His mock-learned apparatus — appendices , maps of Middle-Earth and indexes — suggest a sense of erudition amiably mixed with bonhomie and fun ; his no-nonsense Christianity a hunger for the spiritual and a yearning for roots . |
| 29 | Provide a sense of seclusion and an attractive feature in a garden which is lacking in privacy by building yourself an arbour . |
| 30 | The powerful closing scenes provide a sense of drama lacking from early sections of the play . |