Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first sight this seems to defy common sense , but the point is easily made with reference to whales . |
| 2 | He seems to have little sense of the broader issues involved , political or theological . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The general growth of awareness of environmental problems may have provided a problem-centred focus which helps to overcome any sense of theoretical looseness . |
| 6 | Headphones listening splits the left/right signals too dramatically and , for most people , fails to provide any sense of space in the frontal ‘ cone ’ . |
| 7 | However , the report fails to convey any sense of the complexity and lacunae of research findings and of the difficulties that await those who avail themselves uncritically of them . |
| 8 | Because of this view of persons , the whole concept of marriage being ‘ until death us do part ’ begins to make some sense . |
| 9 | But as long as this incremental approach remains half-hearted , wholesale abandonment of parts of the city begins to make grim sense . |