Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . " |
| 2 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 3 | It was all there in the way , in Czech , he called the dog off ; as the dog immediately obeyed , let go of her and went to his master 's side , the man , his charm of yesterday nowhere to be seen , blasted her in English with an angry , ‘ Have n't you any sense ? ’ |
| 4 | For this reason culture is difficult to analyse scientifically but we all sense assumptions from it the more closely we become associated with a firm . |
| 5 | ‘ The decline of America is something we all sense . |
| 6 | How do I give her that sense ? |
| 7 | but with her being ill it , she says it gave him another sense of duty that |
| 8 | Now the intuitive person on the other hand prefers to use her sixth sense . |
| 9 | Infra-red detectors are very effective devices — they react to body heat , and will leave lights on for a predetermined time after they first sense body heat . |
| 10 | The forest was dark and low upon me , and only the gunfire gave me any sense of direction . |
| 11 | ‘ He who controls the past controls the future ’ is the message of his last utopia : a sense of history is ultimately power , since a people is guided and governed by a collective sense of what it means to itself and to the world , and history gives it that sense , and only history . |
| 12 | At a time when product design has lost its way , the gallery fails to provide a proper historical context that might give it some sense of direction . |
| 13 | I call it common sense . |