Example sentences of "sense in [pron] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 IT has to be said that there 's a growing sense in which this Maastricht treaty ratification business , which we return to today in the Commons , is beginning to resemble the Schleswig-Holstein question .
2 With regard to " temporality " ( in the sense in which this concept was used above ) , this can not be regarded as a sufficient condition of particularity so long as it is not shown that temporality alone ( in the indicated sense ) ensures numerical identity of particulars ; and if we are to be able to justifiably claim that it is a necessary condition of particularity , we must first show that there can be no extra-temporal particulars . "
3 And there is a real sense in which this ability to make fictions that maintain life at work is a triumph of the human imagination , given the conditions of work .
4 Admittedly there is a sense in which this assertion is tautologous — if they are so seldom evaluated , how can one say they are often unsuccessful ?
5 There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter .
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