Example sentences of "[conj] in a [adj] sense [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Now I 'm sure you , Brian , would acknowledge that in a certain sense we are all laymen most of the time .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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