Example sentences of "make sense [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Whitelaw dealt with the question normally by saying that it was no doubt a suitable kind of punishment for schoolboys , but it did not make sense for judicial use , especially because of the delay between offence and punishment . |
| 2 | If the attitudinist can make sense of deductive reasoning as applied to ethical statements , it seems that he can make sense of the embedding of ethical sentences in complex sentences where the attitude they would express on their own is , so to speak , held in reserve . |
| 3 | From this , one might hypothesize that education is important in developing the intellectual skills necessary to absorb and make sense of political material communicated by other media . |
| 4 | This is important , because it is sometimes given as an objection to attitude theories that they can not make sense of subordinate ethical clauses . |
| 5 | Teacher in role to challenge , to redirect and make sense of glib responses . |
| 6 | Why , then , did interest groups come into focus ; what was this new theory ; how adequately does this theory make sense of British politics ; are there alternative perspectives on the part played by interests and groups in British politics ; and how adequate are those perspectives ? |
| 7 | How adequately does it make sense of British politics and the part played by interests and groups ? |
| 8 | That was what it had been , what she had felt all along , she accepted a little later when she was in a state to sort and make sense of shocking new knowledge . |
| 9 | They are basic to the growing subject of computational linguistics , which aims to let computers talk and make sense of human language ; but before that arose , they proved invaluable for computer languages like Basic , Pascal and Prolog . |
| 10 | What we also see is a description of this underlying God which can only make sense in personal terms . |
| 11 | Filing for chapter 11 can make sense in other circumstances . |
| 12 | This distinction may be justified from a limited epistemological standpoint , it might be said , but it does not really make sense in physical terms . |
| 13 | It would have surprised Claudia if Dana did have any money ; she earned a great deal but spent it as fast as she made it , and , while it made sense for Roman to bring her under his wing , Claudia resented it fiercely . |
| 14 | Thus , given that there might come a time when forces were available for deployment in the Middle East , it made sense for American diplomats to encourage what friends and allies they could to hold the line in the interval . |
| 15 | Because they are copied from it directly ( with only minor changes ) , they make sense as individual sentences ; but they do not connect together , because they come from different places in the original book . |
| 16 | A proper account of referential communication must grapple with the intrinsically reciprocal nature of conversation , not merely to satisfy the objections of sociolinguists but also to discover if a deeper analysis of discourse clarifies the procedures by which children use and make sense of verbal information . |
| 17 | make sense of written material we need to know more than simply the ‘ linguistic ’ characteristic of the text : in addition to these characteristics we need to recognise that any writing system is deeply embedded in attitudinal , cultural , economic and technological constraints … reading and writing are therefore also sociolinguistic activities . |
| 18 | 17.13 Through increasing encounters with a range of examples children make sense of literary experiences and it is the responsibility of the teacher to provide and foster that range in the classroom . |
| 19 | We stressed the need in paragraph 17.13 for younger pupils to have increasing encounters with a range of examples through which they make sense of literary experiences and this should continue into the secondary stages . |
| 20 | Easily stowable silk vests and long johns also make sense in galosh-and-windchill territory , and you never know when a pair of swimming trunks will come in handy — even on business trips . |
| 21 | His conjecture , then , is just one way of making sense of certain anatomical facts across species , evolutionary hypotheses , and observations of impairments of linguistic functions on the part of human patients who had suffered different sorts of damage to their brains . |
| 22 | Making sense of persistent and therefore worrying disobedience can be made as simple as ABC . |
| 23 | Moreover , the established theory always sits in a position of political and intellectual prominence as the mainstream perspective supposedly making sense of British politics as a whole . |
| 24 | The 1950s was the golden age of interest-group theory in America and if it could " explain " American politics then there was the tempting presumption that it could do the job of making sense of British politics as well . |
| 25 | Durkheim opened the floodgates and offered what amounted to a radically new way of making sense of social institutions and their inter-relations . |
| 26 | In the previous two sections I have attempted to outline ways in which the evidence for God 's existence may either be too strong or too weak to make sense of religious belief My conclusions , however , connect up with the discussion of ‘ meaning ’ and ‘ no meaning ’ forms of theism and atheism in the first chapter . |
| 27 | An important feature of these interactions , which was to play a major part in the new interactionism , was that we use stereotypical ‘ labels ’ to make sense of other people , based on cues or knowledge that we have about them . |
| 28 | But before we try to make sense of other people 's mystical beliefs in the following chapters , there is one further method of interpreting cultural and social facts which we must identify and assess . |
| 29 | It is not the proper procedure for anyone trying to make sense of other areas of social life . |
| 30 | History gives pupils a framework of reference , opportunities for the informed use of leisure , and a critically sharpened intelligence with which to make sense of current affairs . |