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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] good sense " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Therefore I know that it is not a matter of you using good sense in rejecting advances from young men because you would soon be parted from them .
2	Dear me , sir , you possess good sense , I see , ’ and Calatin looked pleased and slapped Fribble on the back which , as Fribble later pointed out , was rather alarming , because — ‘ Although he 's quite a small giant as giants go , ’ — Calatin was still twelve feet tall and his hands were like York hams .
3	He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’
4	‘ They have better sense than we have . ’
5	It made good sense . ’ ,
6	It made good sense , of course , for the writers to celebrate the deeds of prowess of their aristocratic patrons .
7	The answer is Yes , but it would have taken much longer and with the Government 's 1994 Review so imminent it made good sense to push on with the change process .
8	It seems good sense for us to take advantage of such bounties of nature in order to conserve the limited resources of their coral reef habitats .
9	In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure .
10	European manufacturers invariably make plain tiles alongside their interlocking tiles , and it makes good sense for a manufacturer to be able to offer both types of product .
11	Considering what is already known about muscle , it makes good sense .
12	At that time it makes good sense to separate males from females .
13	So , on that basis , it makes good sense to start on the bigger warrens .
14	Because none of us know when a permanently disabling accident may strike , it makes good sense to protect against the possible effects .
15	Because there were discontinuities as well as continuities , it makes good sense to say that modern chemistry emerged through a dialectical process in which the enthusiasms of the Paracelsian chemists were tempered by their critics .
16	Skills that he wishes to rehearse with them may be part of the programme of another department also , and it makes good sense to have some consultation and perhaps co-ordination .
17	And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one .
18	It makes good sense for housing associations to buy several houses in adjoining streets for ease of monitoring and staff support .
19	It makes good sense to switch over to a lighter routine , just as you adapt to the warm weather by wearing lighter fabrics .
20	If a group anticipates no response at all , a blunt refusal , or even an attack upon its very integrity , then it makes good sense to keep its political head down below the level of activity .
21	Have it written as a P E P and it makes good sense .
22	First , it makes good sense because everyone understands the language of money as a common denominator which goes across all boundaries .
23	In the present climate it is not just a matter of professional duty to stay engaged with the possibility of change : it makes better sense .
24	It makes better sense in any event to look for more specific and precise terms .
25	It makes better sense as a macellum , or market building , several of which are known in the larger towns of Britain , as well as in some Rhine and Danube frontier towns .
26	Since a number of key personnel served in more than one section and since the new body had plenary as well as sectional meetings , it makes better sense to speak of a single " Commission " than to use the plural terminology of contemporaries .