Example sentences of "in [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet neither was completely lacking in political sense . |
| 2 | They were the same terms which Dante and the mediaeval jurists insisted on : Virgil was great , was perpetually relevant and in that sense ‘ a classic ’ ( if not , more exactingly , the one indisputable ‘ classic ’ ) , because in him could be found what Dante teased out of him — the vision of Empire , of the divinely appointed imperium , which must be reconciled ( this way and that , for the reconciling was not easy ) with the no less divinely intended ecclesia . |
| 3 | In that sense , if in no other , I have felt these past weeks rather like a dentist . |
| 4 | In that sense the talents of such fine letter-cutters as David and Richard Kindersley , Bryant Fedden , Sara More , Tom Perkins , Alec Peever , David Holgate , Michael Harvey and many others are being under-used . |
| 5 | It is an old-fashioned morality tale in that sense . ’ |
| 6 | As the Doctrine Commission puts it , ‘ He exposes Himself to being acted upon and , in that sense , being compelled to change . ’ |
| 7 | In that sense the shift in policy contained an element of chance . |
| 8 | It does not have a purpose in that sense of purpose . |
| 9 | He adds to this : ‘ In that sense postmodern discourse with its relativism , its denial of grand narratives and its refusal of questions of value , is a world tailor-made for the new metropolitan intellectual cadres . ' |
| 10 | The welfare of the child was important in that sense , and the reasonable parent , however anguishing the decision , would put his or her own child 's welfare right in the forefront of the decision . |
| 11 | There is , he says , ‘ a rerum natura , and the distinction between realities and chimeras retains its full force — [ even though ] they both equally exist in the mind , and in that sense are alike ideas ’ . |
| 12 | It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai . |
| 13 | In that sense , she died a failure ; but she died with the respect , even admiration , not just of her supporters , but of those Protestant lords who had struggled against her . |
| 14 | But we do care and in that sense , yes , aggression is rooted in the world . |
| 15 | In that sense he has something in common with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 16 | In that sense investigations received a higher priority as a result . |
| 17 | Her protest is , in that sense , rooted in orthodoxy . |
| 18 | The booksellers in that sense amplified the vogue enjoyed by Duck 's verse , and exploited it further by publishing other labouring poets . |
| 19 | I really do n't , not in that sense . |
| 20 | In that sense , it is like any other job of work , or like being any parent . |
| 21 | In that sense , the shots are more about what 's going on in my head than in theirs . ’ |
| 22 | In that sense it 's a weird frontier . |
| 23 | It was completely fantastic , yet had a simple , conventional plot about love and marriage running through it ; her story contained every deviation from the conventional storyline of marriage possible yet was , in every detail , true , and so in that sense not fantastic at all . |
| 24 | Six nights together does not entitle you to be lovers in that sense of the word . |
| 25 | In that sense , thinking anything adequate about commercial television may well involve ignoring it and thinking about something else : in ( this ) instance , experimental video … . |
| 26 | Later it came to denote ‘ time ’ generally , and it was usually employed in that sense in Sanskrit writings . |
| 27 | Well … you see , I do n't have a concept of God in that sense . |
| 28 | Man was n't very far removed from the animal in that sense . |
| 29 | In that sense , carbohydrates , proteins , fats and alcohol are all organic compounds . |
| 30 | In that sense , local government is only a special case of bureaucratic choice organized through the state . |