Example sentences of "it make [det] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ . |
| 2 | Nor does it make much sense for the book to be on offer soon afterwards through a paperback book club that screams at it potential customers , ‘ You write the rules ’ . |
| 3 | But would n't it make more sense to catch that nutter who 's roaming the countryside around here ? ’ |
| 4 | Does it make more sense to be beaten 62–7 or play tight competitive fixtures like Southland and NZ Universities as England ‘ B ’ did . |
| 5 | ‘ Would n't it make more sense to land at the Luftwaffe base at Cherbourg ? ’ |
| 6 | As Europe moves to become a single market , does it make any sense that Britain should be closing coal mines which are producing coal far cheaper than those in west Germany ? |
| 7 | In view of the events surrounding the Haitian boat people who attempted to enter the United States , does it make any sense for that country to continue opposing the implementation of the common action programme ? |
| 8 | Does it make any sense to encourage Western style ‘ social security ’ in the Indian context where only a small proportion of the population is currently covered ? |
| 9 | does it make any sense , like you could at least sort of fall back on the toilet or something . |
| 10 | Does it make any sense ? |
| 11 | mhm Does it make any sense to put in the same numbers _ does it add to the attraction from a statistical point of view , the likelihood to win ? |
| 12 | It was all Isa could do to persuade Wilson to let some light in and dry her tears and tell her what ailed her ; and when she did so , it made little sense . |
| 13 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 14 | None of it made any sense . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
| 16 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 17 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 18 | Well , it made more sense than ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 19 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 20 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 21 | It makes little sense , for example , to require that children have a command of formal vocabulary before they are competent in technical vocabulary or vice versa . |
| 22 | It makes little sense to describe everyone over the age of 60 or 65 as ‘ the elderly population ’ , or ‘ old people ’ . |
| 23 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 24 | If Parliament wishes to create a specialist body to adjudicate in a given field , it makes little sense to have the decisions of that body reviewed by courts which have no such expertise . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There were , of course , flaws in Velikovsky 's reasoning : his imagined catastrophes were fanciful and , while it is all very well to derive clues from oral legends , it makes little sense to prefer these to properly researched results . |
| 27 | If so , it makes little sense to speak of ‘ authenticity ’ , though feminists might wish to celebrate women 's talk as an aspect of their resistance to oppression , a demonstration of skill and creativity with the limited materials at hand . |
| 28 | The test runs were also performed on a different machine so it makes little sense to compare timings . |
| 29 | Thus it makes little sense to refer to ‘ immigrant ’ communities ; what we now have are minority black British communities , that have already made a very substantial contribution to the growth and prosperity of the British economy . |
| 30 | There is a sense in which standing is a preliminary question , separate from that of the substance and merits of the applicant 's case : standing rules determine entitlement to raise and argue the issue of illegality , and it makes little sense to say that entitlement to argue the merits of the case depends on whether one has a good case on the merits . |