Example sentences of "in any sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the party contains many who actively seek peace and reconciliation , it would be wrong to think of them in any sense as overcoming the basic conflictual components of bloc power in Ireland . |
| 2 | Yet from those English lips which utter this face-saving locution , one has yet to hear the words uttered in any sense that is not ‘ limiting ’ . |
| 3 | Neither change nor stasis , in any sense we could possibly understand , can have any application to whatever it is we label ‘ God ’ . |
| 4 | The British are not in any sense unique , though they may be an extreme example , in their preoccupation with themselves and their own ways . |
| 5 | I do n't feel I 'm in any sense vaudevillian or melodramatic . ’ |
| 6 | Can the General Strike be seen , in any sense , as the revolutionary strike which the Communists were anticipating ? |
| 7 | Can the General Strike be seen , in any sense , as the revolutionary strike which the Communists were anticipating ? |
| 8 | He had said , of those who wrecked the town centre in rioting on the sixteenth , that ‘ they were not loyalists in any sense of the word but despicable rebels in the same mould as those in Sinn Fein' . |
| 9 | For our present purposes , however , one should notice that both writers agreed on the necessity of priestly consecration before Christ could be present in any sense in the sacrament of the altar . |
| 10 | When talking with children , it is very important not to convey by trying to be gentle , that the person who has died had in any sense a choice in the matter . |
| 11 | It is obvious that Alison has not recovered in any sense , and is just managing to keep out of hospital by maintaining her weight at a low but not life-threatening level . |
| 12 | She dismisses any idea that her accounting is in any sense ‘ creative ’ : ‘ I 'm not avoiding taxes but planning . |
| 13 | But people who are mentally handicapped are not , in any sense , ill . |
| 14 | In this more specific area of debate , the issue is whether or not the child will be so badly handicapped that it will be unable to sustain a life which society would consider to be in any sense worthwhile . |
| 15 | Not that they would , in any sense , agree to act as spies ; anything they discovered about his private life , they would treat with total discretion , he was sure of that . |
| 16 | But it all seemed very appropriate and did n't seem like a headstrong , desperate manoeuvre in any sense . |
| 17 | I felt like that there was a … a more concrete and unifying decision , that … that decision was what are Dr Carrington 's chances of being alive in any sense whatsoever , in having any human experiences , away from the hospital and away from this ventilator ? |
| 18 | When that time arrives the discretion of the local councillor will be seriously limited , and it is also questionable whether such directives are in any sense democratic . |
| 19 | It can not be in any sense hierarchical . |
| 20 | The important point for the teacher to remember is that local agreement about standards does not in any sense make them absolute . |
| 21 | The concepts of ‘ good and evil ’ are associated with human life , they have not been predetermined in any sense whatsoever . |
| 22 | As we go on in our faith , we may be led into areas ‘ beyond reason ’ , but what we mean by this is beyond humanly discernible reasons and not in any sense against reason . |
| 23 | Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines . |
| 24 | As a reader my assumption has always been that nothing ‘ happens ’ : Africans and their descendants were not , in any sense that matters , there ; and when they were there , they were decorative — displays of the agile writer 's technical expertise . |
| 25 | Labour 's values are therefore not in any sense historically redundant . |
| 26 | When it is completed , the worker is no longer a craftsman in any sense , but is an animated tool of the management . |
| 27 | ‘ The Pru did not have a budgetary system before I joined , the accountants produced some numbers every year but they were not comprehensive or in any sense management information . |
| 28 | Greek theologians who had been trained in Italy and who had been very impressed by Aquinas and his Aristotelian Christianity were opposed and defeated by St Gregory Palamas , who refused to consider God in any sense as a concept , however inspiring , that could be rationally discussed and analysed . |
| 29 | His analysis of doctrines as expressions of the religious consciousness leaves a fair measure of uncertainty whether what is said is in any sense true about God , or only about our understanding of God . |
| 30 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |