Example sentences of "[to-vb] sense of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that express terms are interpreted according to what are known as the " rules of construction " applied to contracts , and these contractual rules apply when attempts are made to imply terms which are needed to make sense of a contract . |
| 2 | Terms implied to make sense of a contract should be distinguished from terms implied by statute : for examples of terms implied by statute see 14.7.3 and 14.7.5 . |
| 3 | In order to make sense of a self that has ‘ survived ’ both discourses of colonialism it would seem that Bhimji 's strategy has been one of intense resourcefulness , gathering in herself and her experiences . |
| 4 | So , for example , it is impossible to make sense of a statement that S is disposed to behave in a certain way unless one already understands the concepts required to understand the content of the relevant behaviour . |
| 5 | Considerable attention is often given to trying to make sense of an incident . |
| 6 | ‘ But if you get the wrong cues , you have to adjust the lines to make sense of the dialogue . ’ |
| 7 | Even in better light , it would have been hard to make sense of the look on the stranger 's face , torn between agitation and disgust . |
| 8 | This is particularly necessary to make sense of the phenomenon called by Billig ( 1987a ) Taking the Side of the Other . |
| 9 | ( Palmer 1986 , Radway 1984 ) But at the same time , such research raises many questions ; not least , how to make sense of the accounts readers give of their activity as they read . |
| 10 | Beyond this , current sensations converge with knowledge and memory and desire to make sense of the experience of the present : I not only experience this object but I recognize it — as something of a certain kind ; as yours , as mine , as something I have seen before ; and it means something to me in terms of my appetites and needs and ambitions . |
| 11 | Most people affected by HIV have an inner need to make sense of the experience of living and dying and to do so with hope and creativity . |
| 12 | You can give your child the language she needs to make sense of the experience . |
| 13 | Usually the art historical and scientific approaches to the same problem reach broadly the same conclusion , even though it may be necessary to rely heavily on one of the approaches to make sense of the other . |
| 14 | to make sense of the things I 'd seen . |
| 15 | Just as Stencil 's quest parodies the reader 's desire to make sense of the text through interpretative patterning , so his investigation of other periods becomes a ludicrous enactment of an author 's creation of characters . |
| 16 | Then , as Fabia tried to make sense of the menu written in Czech , he looked across to ask , ‘ What would you like ? ’ |
| 17 | If one has to resort to such an intentional framework in order to make sense of the behaviour , in order to explain what the creatures are doing and why , and has so to resort after exhausting all possibilities of more austere , less anthropomorphic frameworks of explanation , then one is on the route to linguistic meanings . |
| 18 | To make sense of the trends in overall fertility , and to attempt to answer questions about future family size , we need to know more of the ‘ components ’ of the changes in annual births . |
| 19 | Evelyn stretched out on her back and stared into the dark , trying to make sense of the day 's events . |
| 20 | I have used examples from relativity and quantum mechanics to show the problems one faces when one tries to make sense of the universe . |
| 21 | At the bottom there is a roundabout , which she circles twice , trying to make sense of the direction signs . |
| 22 | Julia asked , trying to make sense of the story . |
| 23 | Text readings around this position are more likely to result in a complete abandonment of the reading on the grounds that too much effort is required to make sense of the story . |
| 24 | The psychoanalyst uses a more general framework of knowledge derived from other analyses , and applies the more general concepts to the individual case so as to make sense of the development of the person . |
| 25 | In other words , in order to make sense of the concept of an objective order we have to postulate the possibility of " witnesses " other than ourselves . |
| 26 | They all require us to make sense of the realist thought that it is always possible that , unknown to us , the world differs radically from the way it appears to us , and argue from this that we can not know that the world really is the way it appears to us . |
| 27 | So to limit the interpretation of the word would follow the principle that words in a statute which have , or can have , a general meaning may have to be given a specialised and narrower meaning in order to make sense of the legislation and to avoid the conclusion that changes have been made to the existing law which can not have been intended by Parliament . |
| 28 | Any foundationalist has a duty to make sense of the possibility that there be non-inferentially justified beliefs . |
| 29 | Moreover , their ability to make sense of the workers ' predicament and articulate their grievances played an important part in mobilizing less sophisticated ranks . |
| 30 | That is , just as cognitive synthesis is required to make sense of the input from the visual cortex , so it is needed to comprehend the intense emotions being offered to the cortex by overstimulated midbrain limbic structures . |