Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] a [adj] sense " in BNC.
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1 | She has a terrific sense of humour . |
2 | She has a good sense of humour , and very sporting : in other words a very nice person . |
3 | She has a good sense of humour — she will need it in the years to come . ’ |
4 | She has a good sense of humour and also shares quite a few of my interests . |
5 | Individually they are slow ; the characters are wafer thin and have little individuality ; there is no evidence that the author is excited by language ; there is little evidence that she has a developed sense of humour . |
6 | Her spirit is infinitely stronger than Charles 's and she has a greater sense of her own destiny than he has . |
7 | She is currently re-taking her mathics mathematics O level and hopes to obtain a grade C. She is diligent in all her studies with a determination to do as well as possible , while her powers of expression are adequate , she has a fine sense of initiative and can organise her material persuasively . |
8 | This is to tell only part of the story however Anna is diligent in all her studies with a determination to do as well as possible , while her powers of expression are adequate she has a fine sense of initiative and within her limitations can organise her materials persuasively . |
9 | She has a beautiful sense of timing . |
10 | He has a classic sense of gastronomic order . |
11 | He has a great sense of humour and will keep you all well-amused . |
12 | He has a flawless sense of colour and form , and realises an ideal balance between formal clipped structure and drifting floral ephemera , springing delicious surprises upon the enchanted visitor . |
13 | Richard says he has a tremendous sense of history as he works in the woods . |
14 | He has a wry sense of humour and an uncompromising disposition , particularly when it comes to talking about deeds of valour . |
15 | He has a fine sense of humour , and he shows strong leadership qualities . |
16 | He has a sixth sense to recognise the genuine from the phoney . |
17 | Like Racine , he creates a terrible sense of the screw turning tighter with every scene — you end up positively dreading the next entrance because of the terrible things you know the characters are going to say . |
18 | It gives a good sense to the idea that a weakly verifiable statement can only be confirmed or disconfirmed , and never conclusively verified . |
19 | We would be inclined to use the first , because it gives a better sense of the feel of the anthology ; but this is a fairly arbitrary decision , where rule-books do not help . |