Example sentences of "[adj] make [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made perfect sense of Miss Julie 's slightly tatty and irregular patrician origins . |
| 2 | Does that make any sense to you ? ’ |
| 3 | Let's talk about horse racing , but before we do so , one last question about football pools and that is that some people have systems — they come up with a whole range of numbers and combinations of things — does that make any sense at all ? |
| 4 | Does this make any sense ? |
| 5 | While this made eminent sense for production efficiency in wartime , it was very much apparent to the British that this would give the United States a natural advantage when the war ended . |
| 6 | This made geographical sense : both valleys drain west to the River Lune and the Irish Sea and are separated from the rest of Yorkshire by the barrier of the Pennines ; nevertheless , the breaking of traditional ties was not to the liking of all the inhabitants . |
| 7 | None of this made any sense — none of it . |
| 8 | ‘ Is this making any sense or am I just jetlagged ? ’ |
| 9 | This makes perfect sense for right now — it 's just what the doctor ordered for all of us . ’ |
| 10 | This makes perfect sense in that a certain intimacy is restored and those r'n'r roots show when ‘ Julian H Cope ’ offers up a Lou Reed pastiche — with ‘ Summertime Blues ’ thrown in — masquerading as a song . |
| 11 | This makes good sense , you will agree . |
| 12 | ‘ I say this makes good sense , ’ Sir Archibald put in . |
| 13 | This makes good sense . |
| 14 | This makes good sense , as a headline is largely a device to put part of the message across and lure the reader into reading the rest . |
| 15 | This makes good sense considering that 85% of the Solomon 's 331,000 people live in almost 6,000 villages scattered over more than 100 islands and 60,000 sq . |
| 16 | None of this makes any sense because one of Blake 's fellow prisoners in D block of Wormwood Scrubs was the Russian spy Gordon Lonsdale ( whose real name was Konon Molody ) , a key figure in the Portland spy ring who , ironically , had also been exposed by the defector Goleniewski . |
| 17 | This makes some sense . |
| 18 | This makes excellent sense when one recognises that the UN 's operations are actually helping to save further defence costs by preventing escalation into wider wars and by providing a form of collective burden sharing for peace-keeping purposes . |
| 19 | It is at present impossible to make chronological sense of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs : even the most determined visitors eventually lose the thread and are forced to retrace their steps . |
| 20 | It all made good sense at the time , but it has turned the middle-classes into sitting ducks , waiting to be plucked by Mr Smith . |
| 21 | The latter makes economic sense as water reed costs approximately only a third more for double the life expectancy . |
| 22 | The danger with accepting that cats have a hundred different sounds is that the whole subject becomes too complicated to make much sense . |
| 23 | Pupils are likely to be able to make more sense of symbolism if some work on metaphor is done from an early age . |
| 24 | This question , said Mrs B , seemed to be of particular significance , but she had felt unable to make any sense of it . |
| 25 | She heard voices which at first made little sense , could not , for the moment , think where she might be or even who she was . |
| 26 | He was too young and too distressed to make any sense , so I had no idea how much he had eaten . |
| 27 | Newcomers to sociology may find it difficult to make much sense of ethnomethodology . |
| 28 | It is , of course , difficult to make any sense of these figures ; in any case , as Nuttall argues , what is important is the kind of results that are obtained for the money spent . |
| 29 | Old enough , certainly , to brood upon things , and too young to make much sense of the sights and sounds he must have seen in this dismal little room . |
| 30 | The other idea , which is necessary to make mathematical sense of the sum over histories , is ‘ imaginary time . ’ |