Example sentences of "it makes [adv] [adj] sense " in BNC.

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1 Maybe the farmer or his tenant will ask for a percentage of the kill within the agreement , but it makes jolly good sense to ensure that anyone who likes to eat a rabbit and who can influence your sport is well looked after .
2 One thing 's for certain , though : committing this kind of money on equipment is a serious business , so buying all the components from the same company makes sense from the back-up point of view , and as the hard work has been taken out of the design — ie. flightcase , patch cables , mains feeds etc. — it makes even more sense .
3 It makes even less sense in view of the collapse of the TUC 's regional day-release programme .
4 It it does it makes far more sense
5 It makes far more sense to do two for the first day , then you can judge how many you can get through in a day from those two .
6 It would , however , be rather contentious to describe the men 's conversation as illogical , since it makes perfectly good sense .
7 " I " m not so young as I used to was " is wrong , except that when Somerset Maughan makes a Cockney landlady say it , it makes perfectly good sense .
8 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 .
9 Sometimes it makes very good sense to borrow money for something .
10 It makes as much sense to bet on the survival of the Government 's EMS policy as to look for tranquility in west Beirut .
11 It makes as much sense as treating burns with a blow torch .
12 If competitors and circumstances are regarded as the " enemy " then It makes as much sense for a corporation to have alternative objectives as it does for a military commander .
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