Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] sense of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . " |
| 2 | ‘ You will have to get used to my peculiar sense of humour , ’ Daniel said . |
| 3 | I was young enough to believe these tales implicitly , but my early sense of wonder in the hills has never entirely vanished . |
| 4 | Even the sun , as if to mark my sudden sense of relief at being out of Czechoslovakia , chose to put in an appearance . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm known for my feeble sense of humour , ’ he laughed . |
| 6 | ‘ Just an example of my unfortunate sense of humour , I fear . ’ |
| 7 | My only support at the time came from a Nigerian girl and a Ugandan Asian girl who were also in my class and shared my deep sense of alienation from our environment . |
| 8 | ‘ Put it down to my Sagittarian sense of drama . ’ |
| 9 | There was a pond in the Manor House grounds , but even with my poor sense of direction , I soon learned to negotiate it , though I remained apprehensive of collision with the horses which roamed in the paddock . |
| 10 | In spite of my enthusiasm and my growing sense of self-importance , one con keeps cropping up and is finally given life by a fellow banker from Chase Manhattan , whom I sit next to on the flight into Kuala Lumpur . |
| 11 | ‘ It shows , ’ says Canon Spence , ‘ my impeccable sense of timing . ’ |
| 12 | My secret eating was expressing what my secret writing ( a misplaced oral activity ) could not : my hatred towards those who oppressed me , my desperate sense of isolation . |
| 13 | Just for a moment my glorious sense of achievement faded into apprehension . |
| 14 | What distinguished my article , through , from the observations of those trail-blazing precursors was that it acknowledged the presence not only of the ( nonsemiological , non- ‘ signreading ’ ) public but also of the collective bliss which , whatever my own sense of alienation , the theme park experience generated among the public . |
| 15 | It renewed my own sense of meaning . |
| 16 | I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail . |
| 17 | Just put it down to my perverted sense of humour . ’ |
| 18 | Her inherent sense of duty insisted that , whatever the risks , whatever the dangers , she must speak . |
| 19 | For some teachers , problems arose when they sought to reconcile this expectation with their simultaneous sense of obligation to monitor , diagnose , assess and interact at the level of the individual child . |
| 20 | But much of it is equally applicable to debentures and many of the statutory provisions expressly apply equally to them , though it is clear that when they do so ‘ debentures ’ is usually used in its narrow sense of debenture stock or a series of identical debentures and not in its wider meaning of a single mortgage , charge or bond . |
| 21 | Mary , with her usual sense of urgency , concentrated on the need to be ‘ well-dressed ’ . |
| 22 | Miranda Richardson plays effectively against type as his cold-eyed colleague in arms in a film that retains its hard-edged sense of danger to the end . |
| 23 | Where had her strong sense of loyalty to Anpetuwi come from ? |
| 24 | A sound financial department and her strong sense of accountability enabled her to understand and monitor the financial side . |
| 25 | Mr Christie said his daughter spoke of ‘ her strong sense of justice ’ and how her sentence was ‘ far too lenient . ’ |
| 26 | Her sense of time may vanish , and her normal sense of self . |
| 27 | The handful of stories that she wrote for children were remarkable for their strong sense of place and feeling for landscapes she had never seen . |
| 28 | Though Leith , with her high sense of responsibility , would much rather that the Norwood & Chambers file had landed on somebody else 's desk . |
| 29 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
| 30 | No one stands out , although some emerge from the group in brief solos to express their personal sense of loss . |