Example sentences of "[conj] in a [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is then proposed as an alternative to this conception is a recognition of the existence of conflicting interest groups , some of which have a much greater capacity to pursue their interests successfully , and of the need for widespread political debate about the allocation of social resources and benefits among these groups , or in a broad sense , about justice and the meaning of a ‘ good society ’ . |
| 2 | In this situation , the role of the deputy head might be undefined or non-existent , except in a symbolic sense . |
| 3 | And in that act we believe that in a spiritual sense that we are lifted up . |
| 4 | The answer is that in a certain sense there is only one categorical imperative , and all other categorical imperatives are applications of this . |
| 5 | Now I 'm sure you , Brian , would acknowledge that in a certain sense we are all laymen most of the time . |
| 6 | She had taken the trouble first to find out what she could about the topic from the notes given , and had thought about it carefully , so that in a real sense she was herself involved in what was happening in the classroom . |
| 7 | Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly . |
| 8 | After all , at any one time in man 's history , there are far more ‘ ordinary ’ people ( and I do not mean that in a derogatory sense ) than those who hit the headlines . |
| 9 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 10 | This means recognizing that in a strict sense attitudes are indeterminate , or , rather , that their meaning can not be fully determined . |
| 11 | ‘ All the really intelligent people I 've met , and I mean that in a clinical sense , have a sort of specialised intelligence . |
| 12 | I would hope that in a competitive sense |
| 13 | Lear 's failure to judge his family properly , in that he sees things in a materialistic sense rather than in a true sense of love is amplified into the conclusion of a country split against itself . |
| 14 | By an extensive study of the tracheae which precede , and in a general sense coincide with the positions of the veins , these writers constructed a hypothetical system of venation from which all others might be derived ( Comstock , 1918 ) . |
| 15 | Medau came to Dartmouth — and in a wider sense , Devon — via Moyra Hopley who moved here from Essex . |
| 16 | To know the occasion of the poem is helpful in any case , since it allows the reader to see that not only is Leapor making a burlesque of her own appearance , but satirizing the gentleman as well , and in a broad sense , the male gaze . |
| 17 | It expresses one 's readiness to have a certain attitude to the person named by ‘ you ’ if he acts in a certain way , and in a broad sense this readiness is itself an attitude . |
| 18 | It had taken only a moment of time ; and in a certain sense everything else that had ever happened to me was insignificant in comparison . |
| 19 | One , already mentioned , envisages a gradual consolidation of a new kind of middle-class , post-industrial society ( Bell , 1973 ) , based upon advanced technology , a mixed economy and a broad consensus of opinion about social and political goals , which would be peaceful , liberal and in a certain sense ‘ classless ’ . |
| 20 | Degrees in such fields may include courses or options on the ‘ philosophy of ’ the field , and in a looser sense still , people may refer to any fundamental statements or questions in a field as ‘ philosophical ’ . |
| 21 | By the end of the century there were fifteen Ottoman missions abroad and the empire was an integral ( and in a negative sense , because of its growing weakness , important ) part of the European system of international relations . |
| 22 | The theoretical task , and in a significant sense secondary to the activity of producing " facts " , was to link observations together within some causal scheme . |
| 23 | And in a larger sense community is affirmed , and the complexities of social life dissolved . |
| 24 | And in a third sense , literature is thought by many structuralists to have a special relationship to language , in that it involves a unique awareness of the nature of language itself . |
| 25 | Effectively , and in a commercial sense , the right lasts for 10 years with the owner being given a five-year breathing space within which to bring articles made to the design to the market place . |
| 26 | Student action on the campus , on the other hand , does raise issues of academic freedom , and in a double sense . |
| 27 | I see it fantastically in the pages of books I read and in a true sense I see life through the leaves of the willow tree . |
| 28 | In the novel he stays polarized , but without bulk and in a tragic sense without force ; he goes through the motions ( ‘ the habits of a decent man ’ and so forth ) while his great-sinner infamies are unloaded upon a past which he can not even renounce . |
| 29 | ‘ John David ’ does not question the child 's ‘ right to live ’ but in a real sense the ability of parents — mainly the mother — to accept the child into their home . |
| 30 | But , but in a political sense , not an economic sense . |