Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] more sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that you had more sense , Sally-Anne . |
| 2 | But Raff speculates that it makes more sense that all cells are suicidal : to survive they have to be constantly reminded by signals from the body that they are loved and cherished . |
| 3 | In fact the period seems somewhat variable , so that it makes more sense to talk of a 22-year cycle between one sunspot ‘ high ’ and , not the next , but the one after that . |
| 4 | These relations between finite coordinate distances are generally so inconvenient that it makes more sense to start calculations from the differentials which do transform linearly : . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As an example , property insurance is cheaper than liability insurance , so that it makes more sense , for instance , for a site-owner to insure against the fire risk of a fire caused by an installer , under fire insurance , than it does for the installer to insure against liability for causing the same risk , under a public liability or contractor 's all risks policy . |
| 7 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 8 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , we had a quarrel , but I have more sense than to seek a confrontation . |
| 10 | Maggie felt annoyed but she had more sense than to argue . |
| 11 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 12 | These themes are only noted here , because it makes more sense to develop them in Chapter 4 around relevant empirical information . |
| 13 | It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently . |