Example sentences of "it makes [adj] sense [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness . |
| 2 | If , for whatever reason , a husband initially commands higher rates of pay than his wife it makes economic sense for him to ‘ specialize ’ in paid work and let her shoulder the brunt of the partnership 's unpaid chores ( Becker , 1981 , 1985 ; for a critique see Owen , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It makes good sense for housing associations to buy several houses in adjoining streets for ease of monitoring and staff support . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It makes better sense in any event to look for more specific and precise terms . |
| 7 | This need not be a problem , especially as each will have a different approach to the same material , but it makes obvious sense on many counts if the teachers are each prepared for this by consultation . ) |
| 8 | But it makes commercial sense for them to respond to pressure . |
| 9 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
| 10 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
| 11 | On this basis it makes more sense for an investor to invest in promise than in reality . |
| 12 | From the point of view of both the buyer and the seller , it makes more sense for risk to pass on delivery than upon the passing of property , and this is provided for in cl 4.3 of Precedent 1 and clause 4.1 of Precedent 2 . |
| 13 | Besides , it makes more sense to me to believe your brother was the victim of one of the many enemies I 'm sure he made in the course of his life . |
| 14 | It seems that it makes more sense to the majority of people if we tell you how much faster ( or slower ) than a common reference machine the test machine is . |
| 15 | I , I , I take all the planning and what the officer is saying , but I mean do n't you think it makes more sense from our point of view than we realize . |
| 16 | It makes some sense to me , and clearly to some of the audience here tonight . |