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

No	Sentence
1	But in the legal sense she supposed he did nothing worse than truant from school .
2	Apprentices could be sanctioned by neither , and in the general sense it is hardly surprising that resort to corporal punishment was so common .
3	In the technical sense it is perfectly possible for an organisation to have a hierarchical structure and to have popular and participatory decision-making .
4	In the technical sense he is correct .
5	What matters is that , regardless of their manufacturers , the devices themselves are enemies of each other in the special sense I have defined in this chapter .
6	But in the specialized sense it covers a range of disciplines which apply to most types of literature , and it has made a very positive contribution to the understanding of the Bible .
7	She had thought she was healed , beyond his reach forever , and in every real sense she knew that she was .
8	He points out that when John uses that term in a negative sense it is with ‘ specific reference not to the whole of culture , but to a particular use of that culture by the forces of evil . ’
9	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 .
10	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 .
11	Now I 'm sure you , Brian , would acknowledge that in a certain sense we are all laymen most of the time .
12	The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism .
13	Rewarding in a financial sense I think you 'll find once you 've heard .
14	More radically still , Derrida works at the limits of any possible philosophy of history , arguing that it is not just that the problems of hermeneutics , specifically of interpretation and language , affect historical understanding , but that what in a broad sense he calls writing , or différance , determines history .
15	When he sees the film fluttering on the gate , suggesting something light and insubstantial in a physical sense he thinks
16	In a social sense I had .
17	In a structural sense we have turned our model on its side .
18	No they 're not gon na exploit their own workers but surely the , the , the whole idea of the build up towards land reform is that you are making , I mean in a Marxist sense it 's the only way in which you can do it is , is you make progress through conflict .
19	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 .
20	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 .
21	In a strict sense it is not so much the content of drama which is distinctive , but the way in which it is considered ( p. 16 ) .
22	In a profound sense we doubt not only because we are ignorant of something but because we are absolutely certain of nothing .
23	In an immediate sense it was clear that local authorities were ill-equipped to begin the type of prosecutions purity groups were pressing for .
24	But it is shared , in an important sense we would do well to understand , in Germany too .
25	To begin with a general point of caution , concerning the relationship between socialised economic planning and enterprise democracy : I have claimed these to be complementary features of the socialist project , and in an important sense they are , yet there is an inherent tension between the two which must be faced up to .
26	These individuals may be frightened by and greatly distanced from the power and authority of the state , but in an important sense they also need the state ; its appeal to a higher authority as well as its power and resources .