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