Example sentences of "[adv] make [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reckoned that Biblical Christianity not only made more sense than any other religion or philosophy , but also it was the only one that had the power to produce real holiness of life in genuine believers . |
| 2 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 3 | Sleep would perhaps make more sense after thirty-six hours straight on duty , much of it spent with a sullen Jamaican who had killed his landlady and her three children in the crowded kitchen of a house behind the Westway . |
| 4 | It may be possible to read a listing of a computer program and perhaps make some sense of it but , certainly to many of us who have to use computer programs , they take on a quasi-mystical nature as they are , after all , intangible . |
| 5 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 6 | Reducing emissions not only makes good sense environmentally , it can also yield cost savings . |
| 7 | RE should help pupils to appreciate that there is another language possible — one which perhaps makes more sense , but that is for each person to decide for him/herself . |
| 8 | The interpretation which perhaps makes most sense of people 's answers is that their decisions seem to be based first on a desire to pay off quickly , and second ( in modification of this ) on how high an instalment they can afford — rather than on interest rates or total cost . |
| 9 | In Madrid the NATO Secretary-General , Manfred Wörner told legislators attending a five-day annual NATO assembly on Oct. 21 that , while " an additional independent European force " would " not make practical sense " , a European force co-ordinated by the Western European Union ( WEU ) could prove valuable in areas outside NATO 's traditional field . |
| 10 | ‘ And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’ |
| 11 | But this principle does not constrain the courts to invent an ambiguity or to construe an ambiguity in a way which does not make good sense . |
| 12 | Julian 's solution does not make rational sense , but it does reverberate emotionally with an important dimension of the Christian religion of love , which sometimes gets lost in the more cerebral doctrinal formulations of the faith . |
| 13 | But although her explanation made logical sense — it did not make emotional sense . |
| 14 | The report 's recommendations are in line with the Industry 's argument that it does not make economic sense to close Britain 's nuclear power plants early and that it is far cheaper to run the stations than to close them . |
| 15 | Zero risk does not make economic sense . |
| 16 | When overseas selling operations are only small scale and it would not make economic sense to carry out such operations oneself . |
| 17 | Other services — like the police and fire brigade — do not make administrative sense in smaller areas . |
| 18 | Would it not make administrative sense if at least part of this site could be reserved specifically for the British Library so that in any future extension , these units could be incorporated ? |
| 19 | However , to say that one bank , or one wind direction , is always better than another does not make much sense . |
| 20 | Of course , they may not accept the beliefs , attitudes , or intentions that are expressed ; one can always object to what somebody else says , but it does not make much sense to do this unless one understands its meaning . |
| 21 | As usual , one of these aspects of life does not make much sense without the other . |
| 22 | Without it , the main clause would not make much sense : The architect who designed the National Theatre is Sir Dennis Lasdun . |
| 23 | Leaving the Conservative Party unchallenged in 17 constituencies does not make political sense . |
| 24 | Therefore we can not make syntactic sense of which until we get to the end of the sentence . |
| 25 | Given the success in getting the Israelis and Palestinians round the table , would it not make more sense for the Government to right that wrong and ensure that , during our presidency from July onwards , we talk directly to the PLO ? |
| 26 | Would it not make more sense to have a moratorium on pit closures in the interests of jobs , the balance of payments and European energy conservation ? |
| 27 | The monistic position , as we saw , was that such an idea , ii closely examined , does not make clear sense , because there can be no unequivocal criteria of numerical diversity . |
| 28 | This did not make any sense that she could see when she thought : but she felt the power of it . |
| 29 | ‘ It does not make any sense to hold it here any more . |
| 30 | I I think it 's just words that briefly talking about that issue office states because I think in terms of management it just does not make any sense . |