Example sentences of "sense in which [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a sense in which outer power is an illusion ; inner strength can change the world . |
| 2 | Even ‘ in a perverse way ’ there is no sense in which loyalist violence can ever be ‘ helpful ’ , in letting Catholics know the fear Protestants have felt and perhaps increasing pressure for a political settlement . |
| 3 | Here I intend to extend and develop the analysis by looking at differentiation as the product of a process of under development in the sense in which that word is used by Cleaver ( 1977 ) . |
| 4 | In a case involving a brutal sexual assault by a guardsman , Slynn J. stated : ‘ It does not seem to me that the appellant is a criminal in the sense in which that word is used frequently in these courts . |
| 5 | This is ‘ Community legislation ’ in the sense in which that expression was taken at the Statute Law Society 's Annual Conference at Cambridge in 1988 , and the phrase will be used in the same sense in this article . |
| 6 | This conflict between tariff reformers and free traders was to lead to the ‘ agreement to differ ’ convention in January 1932 , and the resignation of the Liberals from the government in September 1932 ; but , until they resigned , the National Government was a genuine coalition in the sense in which that term is used on the continent : a government comprising independent yet conflicting elements allied together , a government within which party conflict was not superseded but rather contained — in short , a power-sharing government , albeit a seriously unbalanced one . |
| 7 | Williams always wrote in a way which deserves the label of ‘ political ’ in the sense in which that term is used by Cleaver ( 1979 ) . |
| 8 | I want to emphasize that in my discussion of social differentiation I am not dealing with an ‘ underclass ’ in the sense in which that term has recently been employed by , among others , Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) . |
| 9 | At the same time , the distinction between ambassadors resident and those who were genuinely extraordinary , in the sense in which that term had hitherto been used , began to break down . |
| 10 | In short , the characteristic feature of human beings , as the early symbolic interactionists such as Mead emphasised long ago , is that they are self-aware in a sense in which other animals are not . |
| 11 | Because of all this , there is a sense in which all assistance between relatives must be the subject of negotiations about when it is to be given , by whom , for how long , and on what terms . |
| 12 | If the sense in which all behaviour was non-autonomous turned out to be the same as the sense in which abnormal behaviour is now understood to be so , then the same attitude to it would be appropriate . |
| 13 | Thirdly , in all the examples quoted here , there is a sense in which all observers see the same thing . |
| 14 | Second , there is a different sense in which private individuals may not want to conserve soil or have a small family other than the most obvious that it may not benefit them . |
| 15 | However , there is another sense in which syntactic analysis might be independent of semantic and pragmatic analysis , and it is this which we discuss in the next section . |
| 16 | There is a further sense in which representative government is indirect . |
| 17 | It seems , then , that sentences which are not declarative can not express anything in the sense in which factual statements do . |
| 18 | Yet if the only sense in which two statements of attainment from different attainment targets are equivalent is the number of the level to which they have been assigned , then the production of a combined score is a calculation devoid of meaning . |
| 19 | Be that as it may , there is certainly one sense in which modern agriculture literally , albeit indirectly , mines the earth : by its increasing dependence on fossil-based fuels . |
| 20 | There is a sense in which modern science is actually better than ancient science . |
| 21 | Petrey begins by suggesting a sense in which speech-act-based approaches are typical of twentieth-century literary theory and a sense in which they are atypical . |
| 22 | There is a sense in which each novel of his is an opinion of his , coextensive with the work itself and rather hard , as a rule , to read off in summary . |
| 23 | There is therefore a sense in which each world — the ancestral world and the present-day secular one — regulates the other … |
| 24 | Is Anderson using the word ‘ random ’ in its mathematical sense , as one out of a series , or in its statistical sense in which each item has an individual chance ? |
| 25 | I suppose there is a trivial sense in which many ideas can be said to have ‘ opposites ’ . |
| 26 | The strict sense in which such structures underlie the sentences is of course enshrined in the transformational component of the grammar . |
| 27 | But it would be hard to identify a coherent or clear-cut Labour or socialist philosophy in the sense in which such philosophies had existed before 1914 . |
| 28 | So erm y'know there 's a sense in which some people feel rather suspicious of this sort o y'know the family dynamics type theories because it draws attention away from the responsibility of the people who actually do the abuse . |
| 29 | Although some of this work may be informed by certain theoretical readings — Irigaray , Cixous , Kristeva , Judith Butler , or some of the work by Italian feminists on the mother-daughter relationship — there is a real sense in which these artists could be said to be producing theory visually . |
| 30 | 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 . |