Example sentences of "in a [adj] sense [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now I 'm sure you , Brian , would acknowledge that in a certain sense we are all laymen most of the time . |
| 5 | The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism . |
| 6 | Rewarding in a financial sense I think you 'll find once you 've heard . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When he sees the film fluttering on the gate , suggesting something light and insubstantial in a physical sense he thinks |
| 9 | In a social sense I had . |
| 10 | In a structural sense we have turned our model on its side . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In a broader sense it includes all relatives living together or accepted as a family , including adopted persons . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | In a profound sense we doubt not only because we are ignorant of something but because we are absolutely certain of nothing . |
| 17 | In an immediate sense it was clear that local authorities were ill-equipped to begin the type of prosecutions purity groups were pressing for . |
| 18 | But it is shared , in an important sense we would do well to understand , in Germany too . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |