Example sentences of "it [verb] sense [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it make sense to you ? |
| 2 | Would it make sense for city authorities to restrict commuter parking in cities during the day ? |
| 3 | Would it make sense for these activities to be provided by the private sector in the same way as haircuts and cars ? |
| 4 | The EFA should therefore be a prime target for spending cuts , but at the same time , does n't it make sense for the Government to ‘ bite the bullet ’ on another contentious issue , viz. the future of the Rosyth dockyard ? |
| 5 | Absolutely , does it make sense for , for husband and wife over there to wait for the second one to have a heart attack , or the second one to have a cancer before it pays out , |
| 6 | What procedure would it make sense for something like that to go in though ? |
| 7 | How adequately does it make sense of party politics ? |
| 8 | How adequately does it make sense of British politics and the part played by interests and groups ? |
| 9 | I read Millett 's Sexual Politics by the light of an oil lamp , with mosquitos whining in my ears , and tried to make it make sense in Africa . |
| 10 | Instead of starting with the birth of Jesus and going on to his ministry , death and resurrection , the first disciples began with the resurrection and showed how it made sense of the rest . |
| 11 | The atomic theory thus came by the 1860s to have two functions : it might be a fundamental theory of matter , about which it was appropriate to argue in a very general way ; or it might be a teaching aid , helpful to students who learned it as a dogma because it made sense of a great number of facts . |
| 12 | If he was more successful than me , I could say it made sense for me to give up my career . ’ |
| 13 | As a major ‘ consumer ’ of overhauled piston engines for its own fleet , it made sense for the Atlantic Group to extend their activities to engine overhaul . |
| 14 | For fathers in say , metalworking or joinery , there was no chance at all of their daughters following in their footsteps , but it made sense for them to seize the chance offered by the printing trade . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The moon , the mountains , the man — himself — standing there in the darkness : none of it made sense to him . |
| 18 | It made sense to me and the client to have women selling it . |
| 19 | But it made sense at least to stretch my cramped legs , so I strolled down to the edge of the lake and lit a cigarette . |
| 20 | Finally , it made sense with the gallery 's affairs already disrupted by the construction , to seize the opportunity to restore the original museum , reinstall the collection , and landscape the surrounding grounds . |
| 21 | Smith argued that where a print run — or more likely a reprint — had left hundreds or thousands of unsold copies , it made sense in times of crippling warehouse costs and tight cash flows to unload slow-selling stock . |
| 22 | Sara 's story made sense ; it made sense in the context of Alfred 's bizarre existence . |
| 23 | It is the sentence , and nothing else , which has sense , and it has sense by virtue of there being an accepted common practice with sentences like it , and others . |
| 24 | It is the sentence , and nothing else' which has sense , and it has sense in virtue of there being an accepted common practice with sentences like it , and others . |
| 25 | If Alasdair Dinnie 's production baffled , it showed sense in certain respects . |
| 26 | It makes sense to be sold in a package , ’ says Turner . |
| 27 | It makes sense to gear up at the car — as the descent leads logically back to this point . |
| 28 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 29 | Blue chips such as British Telecom are realising that it makes sense to ‘ take work to the people to overcome a permanent shortage of software engineers in the South East , says Malcolm Lees at BT 's software centre . |
| 30 | Mike reckons that it makes sense to be nearer the only regular snow skiing in the British Isles . |