Example sentences of "[verb] make [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , forecasters in the weather service have access to a lot of non-satellite data — from recording instruments on the ground for instance — which , presumably , a company would need to make any sense of the data from space . |
| 2 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
| 3 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 4 | Lowell , too emotionally mind-blown to try to make any sense of the first part of the letter , was immediately thrust into action by the second paragraph . |
| 5 | To the non Bridge player , discussions or articles about Bridge appear to make little sense . |
| 6 | The need for such detail , however , is not confined to Americans interested in the subject ; it encompasses all those who seek to make some sense of the institutions and complex relationships that form the British polity in the 1980s . |
| 7 | People may not remember whatever detailed analysis was developed for them as schoolchildren , but certain models or ‘ general sketches ’ … do remain , and they inform everyday thinking closely , especially as they are exercised over and again by politicians and the media seeking to make public sense of current events . |
| 8 | ‘ It seemed to make more sense than having Rib Shacks in Reading and Rugby or elsewhere , ’ he said . |
| 9 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 10 | How can Christ be a perfect penitent if he is really sinless ? putting it in ordinary terms : if you are completely innocent of a crime , no one is going to make much sense of it if you say : ‘ I am not guilty of this offence , but I confess on behalf of others and wish to represent their guilt . ’ |
| 11 | What alternative reflection of himself can the Left , for instance , offer Chas which is going to make any sense in terms of his own experience and the way he sees the world ? |
| 12 | We can now begin to make some sense of the differences between the three classes of ganglion cells . |
| 13 | If Larry 's death is understood as an inner voyage of the type described by Laing , a voyage occasioned by the physical trauma of a heart attack , many of the puzzling aspects of the novel begin to make more sense . |
| 14 | For certain technologies , notably strategic defence against nuclear weapons , researching makes more sense than deploying a half-baked system . |
| 15 | A life in art began to make real sense . |
| 16 | She considered this encouraged regular habits and represented a kindness to her tenants , but the policy could have made little sense to the working class woman managing on a tight and often irregular housekeeping allowance . |
| 17 | ‘ No , not that it would have made much sense if they had — I 'm not a particular ace when it comes to car engines . ’ |
| 18 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 19 | they , they had to improve the productivity from the land and im well not productivity , just efficiency generally , and that how that it would n't have made economic sense for them to have gone straight for socialism . |
| 20 | It would n't have made political sense in that how the , they were deliberately choosing cautious policy which would enable them to stay in power . |
| 21 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 22 | But I think if we 'd made ‘ Rumours ’ then ‘ Mirage ’ then ‘ Tango ’ and then ‘ Tusk ’ it probably would have made more sense from the listeners ' point of view . |
| 23 | One of the arguments of the present paper is that the reforms would have made more sense and been more appropriate for our purposes had we successfully translated and adapted the lessons learned from the North American experience with case management , focused on the real messages of the PSSRU experiments , and waited until the RDP case management evaluation was complete ( Cooney , 1992 ) before contemplating the introduction of the reforms . |
| 24 | Surely , with your background , something in the hotel line would have made more sense ? ’ |
| 25 | Knowing Carol , of course , it would have made more sense to ask if I 'd come out of things in one piece — the piece in question being in the genitalia region . |
| 26 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 27 | It is very effective and almost shocking when you realise that what he is saying makes complete sense and the uselessness of war is so true as it really achieves very little good if any at all . |
| 28 | ( Mary Magdalen is found to be an altogether more sympathetic role model ; she has a nice plain earthiness which seems to make more sense of our actual lived experience . ) |
| 29 | Operating the 238S requires a separate mixer , which I actually find easier than using an all-in-one machine because working alone and trying to remember complicated bounces and mixes and all the things which have to go on tape is hard enough , so routing signals through the desk seems to make more sense to an already cluttered mind . |
| 30 | It had , at first , seemed totally unlikely that this bunch of ugly Northern oiks would ever make it in America , but they 're starting to make perfect sense . |