Example sentences of "a great sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack 's Rake is a difficult scramble and at one or two points positively frightening as we climbed the final yards we felt a great sense of achievement . |
| 2 | On the other hand , other people display a great sense of diffidence but often have admirable ideas which they are reluctant to reveal . |
| 3 | He has a great sense of humour and will keep you all well-amused . |
| 4 | But also there 's a great sense of doorstep rebellion , and stamping of feet . |
| 5 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 6 | Thus , what begins in the springtime of national liberation as a great sense of popular emancipation becomes a range of new and often heightened oppressions , those required for economic development . |
| 7 | The children were wonderfully responsive , with a great sense of humour and they derived enormous excitement from the games and competitions . |
| 8 | There is a great sense of space and elegance amidst the beautiful gardens , churches and palaces . |
| 9 | One of the marks of Jesus ' discipleship is a great sense of joy . |
| 10 | The feeling , I was surprised to find , gave me a great sense of satisfaction , almost of ecstasy . |
| 11 | There was n't actually a great sense of option or choice . |
| 12 | ‘ I sometimes feel a great sense of loss and disappointment that she never saw me grow up . |
| 13 | Yet we experience a great sense of loss , if we only let go of this intellect reluctantly and in fact would rather nurture it than shed it . |
| 14 | The resuscitated patients often speak of a great sense of disappointment and loss on waking . |
| 15 | But Peter Royston , of Scottish Ballet , had a great sense of humour and exactly the right touch . |
| 16 | At the end of it all I felt a great sense of relief and well-being , and now I always go to Norway for treatment . |
| 17 | He had a great sense of humour and was more like a teenager than a man nearing retirement . |
| 18 | They also often bring a great sense of humiliation and frustration . |
| 19 | They provide all the classic tones , from full and ripe through soft and pingy to pure and sharp , all with remarkably low noise and completely even volume levels from position to position , with the Manson 's maple top , generous neck and heavy machineheads adding a great sense of solidity and authority to the sound . |
| 20 | We had a great sense of family responsibilities being carried into the work place . |
| 21 | They had a great sense of humour … |
| 22 | This gave me a great sense of freedom — and , just occasionally , I did hurtle down the street at night ! |
| 23 | On our first drizzly-day visit we stood open-mouthed under Previsla on the Tower of Friends — the Czechs have a great sense of humour . |
| 24 | ‘ She looked good , had a great sense of humour and managed to hold things together , ’ said one of the guest celebrities . |
| 25 | A great sense of peace descended upon me . |
| 26 | But he admitted to a great sense of satisfaction at having been in the job at a time when the world had ‘ seen the most rapid political changes in the past 50 years ’ , from the end of the Cold War to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union , and the appointment of former POCs like Vaclav Havel to become heads of state . |
| 27 | To understand life today , you have to have a great sense of humour . |
| 28 | ‘ She was a lovely girl who loved the outdoors and had a great sense of adventure , ’ he said at their home in Hillingdon , Middlesex . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't really know much about Doctor Reid , ’ I admitted , ‘ except that he seems to have a great sense of humour and is — well , perhaps a bit unconventional . ’ |
| 30 | The seventeen-year-old all-round sportsman , who plays his tennis at Matchpoint Bramhall tennis club Stockport , duly faced Carrara in the following day 's final with a great sense of expectation . |