Example sentences of "in a [adj] sense [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the reverse engineering provisions to have any real effect , the word " substantial " would have to be interpreted in a quantitative sense which would run counter to copyright law . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now I 'm sure you , Brian , would acknowledge that in a certain sense we are all laymen most of the time . |
| 6 | It had taken only a moment of time ; and in a certain sense everything else that had ever happened to me was insignificant in comparison . |
| 7 | The answer is that in a certain sense there is only one categorical imperative , and all other categorical imperatives are applications of this . |
| 8 | The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism . |
| 9 | Rewarding in a financial sense I think you 'll find once you 've heard . |
| 10 | This is then defined in a normative sense which must therefore inevitably exclude these pupils from its attainment . |
| 11 | It is in a practical sense their assets and not the shareholders ' assets that , through the medium of the company , are under the management of the directors pending either liquidation , return to insolvency , or the imposition of some alternative administration . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War . |
| 14 | When he sees the film fluttering on the gate , suggesting something light and insubstantial in a physical sense he thinks |
| 15 | In a social sense I had . |
| 16 | In a structural sense we have turned our model on its side . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But then I do n't suppose that would be enough for you , and after all this is Boy 's story mostly , he is after all in a proper sense my hero , and you have to have this Boy clearly in your mind before we can proceed . |
| 21 | In a broader sense it includes all relatives living together or accepted as a family , including adopted persons . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | One was its involvement in politics in a direct sense which would be frowned on in the West . |
| 24 | In a profound sense we doubt not only because we are ignorant of something but because we are absolutely certain of nothing . |