Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] sense " in BNC.
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1 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
2 | It was only after the rebellion of autumn 1483 had demonstrated that Richard had lost the support of a significant number of his brother 's men , that it made political sense to indulge in general criticism of Edward IV 's reign . |
3 | But Luke only nodded , as if it made perfect sense . |
4 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
5 | It made economic sense . |
6 | It made good sense . ’ , |
7 | It made good sense , of course , for the writers to celebrate the deeds of prowess of their aristocratic patrons . |
8 | The answer is Yes , but it would have taken much longer and with the Government 's 1994 Review so imminent it made good sense to push on with the change process . |
9 | It seems good sense for us to take advantage of such bounties of nature in order to conserve the limited resources of their coral reef habitats . |
10 | Whatever the results of investigation , it seems common sense to avoid feeding cows , which are ruminants anyway , with dead , possibly diseased sheep . |
11 | It seems common sense to place the taller varieties at the back of the beds , or in the middle if they are to be seen from all angles , but other points can also be taken into account . |
12 | It seems common sense to say that if the Minister transfers the pension rights of existing employees of the Scottish Transport Group to the new privatised subsidiaries he will , by definition , sign away the substantial benefits that the employees enjoy under the existing scheme . |
13 | So we , the answer is we do n't really know but it seems common sense to apply barrier precautions and to do everything you can to modify the type of surgery so that the chances of having an injury with a sharp instrument are reduced , and people have made some constructive proposals along these lines . |
14 | It makes practical sense to train suitable spokesmen . |
15 | It makes economic sense , particularly if the prospectus is printed commercially , to run off a substantial number at one time . |
16 | With club rates varying from £50–£90 per hour depending on which part of the country you reside in , it makes economic sense if you can afford it to join a group — or perhaps if a little more of the folding stuff is available , to buy your own small PFA type or microlight . |
17 | In such circumstances he needs all the help that it makes economic sense to provide . |
18 | 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 ) . |
19 | He says there are a number of ecological as well as economic reasons — it 's a longer , stronger tougher fibre — it makes a longer-lasting paper and it makes economic sense to grow the material in this country rather than importing it . |
20 | It makes unarguable sense to concentrate materials purchases as much as is commercially desirable and to obtain supplies from as few sources as possible . |
21 | ‘ It makes perfect sense . |
22 | It makes perfect sense that old , disabled and non-adult persons should be excluded from the reference of this phrase , but no sense that women should be excluded — unless the word adult really means adult male . |
23 | It makes perfect sense . |
24 | ‘ Do n't look so surprised , it makes perfect sense . |
25 | Economically , it makes perfect sense . ’ |
26 | It makes perfect sense , simple addition and subtraction , but no one figured the tracking speed into the equation . |
27 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
28 | As a final point about the root definition , it is sometimes useful to express it as a statement to see if it makes reasonable sense , and to double-check that all the CATWOE factors have been considered . |
29 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
30 | 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 . |