Example sentences of "and [verb] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a series of other official reports , emanating from Parliament and central government , began to recognize a pattern , and make sense of these contradictions . |
| 2 | A democratic society needs people who have the linguistic abilities which will enable them to discuss , evaluate and make sense of what they are told , as well as to take effective action on the basis of their understanding . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , for God 's sake , ’ said Elinor , ‘ try and make sense . |
| 4 | I like flowing things , things that flow together and make sense , so that 's how I write . |
| 5 | The Kingman Report emphasised the need for such abilities when it stated : ‘ A democratic society needs people who have the linguistic abilities which will enable them to discuss , evaluate and make sense of what they are told , as well as to take effective action on the basis of their understanding … |
| 6 | Re-live those great records and gigs , those hilarious TV moments , those , erm , radio programmes and try and make sense of it all . |
| 7 | All we in fact observe is that h is regularly followed by B. This consistent association leads us to connect the two in our own minds , to expect A always to be followed by B , and this we then express by saying that A is the cause of B and B the effect of A. This is all perfectly in order , and indeed it is through such links and associations that we build up an ordered and coherent conception of the world around us and make sense of our experience of it . |
| 8 | ‘ the activities … are imaginative , stimulating , and make sense from the language teaching point of view . |
| 9 | These wide orientations underpin and make sense of our second series — certain rather specific texts that represent in more precise manner the Council at its most authoritative . |
| 10 | At the end of the first session the therapist will try to pull all the information together and make sense out of what has been said , feeding back to the client some explanation and treatment plan . |
| 11 | The audience can pick up the dramatic thread running through the cadenza and make sense of it from beginning to end . ’ |
| 12 | A proper account of referential communication must grapple with the intrinsically reciprocal nature of conversation , not merely to satisfy the objections of sociolinguists but also to discover if a deeper analysis of discourse clarifies the procedures by which children use and make sense of verbal information . |
| 13 | In 3 we have discussed theories of the pragmatic interpretation of language : how people create meaning and make sense of what is said in specific circumstances . |
| 14 | We have looked at the devices which create formal links between sentences ; at pragmatic interpretations which link literal meaning to function and social meaning ; at the existence of hierarchical structures in particular discourse types ; and finally at the conversational mechanisms which enable people to construct informal discourse together and make sense of what is happening as they do so . |
| 15 | Almost too late to be of real use , a rehabilitation unit took her in and began the slow , hard work of helping her and her family reconstruct and make sense of their situation . |
| 16 | 3. use background knowledge to set the document in its place and make sense of it . |
| 17 | Language has developed as a sign system — one of the ways in which humans communicate and make sense of the world around them . |
| 18 | The point I 'm making however , is that a , a fairer way to judge this book , might be to say , not well let , let's reject everything in it that 's Lamarckian , cos it does n't fit with our modern prejudices , a fairer way , might be to read it the way we read Darwin 's works , where there is also considerable Lamarckenis Lamarckism , and say well , this is er , this is an understandable error , given the poor state of knowledge that people had about genetics at the time , and then try and make sense of it . |
| 19 | She also wished he would stop talking in riddles and make sense . |
| 20 | On second thoughts , if he was to try and make sense of the puzzle , he would need them for reference . |
| 21 | But Moira says no it 's paperbacks only , insisted on lending us some of those Virgo Books and Woman 's Press and that , you know ‘ I Stand Here Ironing ’ and so on , could n't be bothered to try and make sense of them . |
| 22 | Or is there some way in which we can accept and make sense of what we found to be the case ? |
| 23 | Sociologists have shown in a variety of bureaucratic and semi-bureaucratic contexts that , beneath the surface of formal rules and procedures , lie structures of informal rules — some of which the participants themselves may not be consciously aware — but which they , nevertheless , use to interpret and make sense of their more formal obligations and duties . |
| 24 | Various constructions of people with learning difficulties have existed down the ages as society has attempted to define and make sense of patterns of behaviour which differ from the norm . |
| 25 | According to IBM Corp , which is busy trying to salvage and make sense of its core business , we are now to think of the mainframe as the complete server . |
| 26 | It is often associated with a group of scholars in the USA known as ethnomethodologists : because they ( — ists ) set out to discover what methods ( — methodolog — ) people ( ethno — ) use to participate in and make sense of interaction . |
| 27 | They are basic to the growing subject of computational linguistics , which aims to let computers talk and make sense of human language ; but before that arose , they proved invaluable for computer languages like Basic , Pascal and Prolog . |
| 28 | Gilbert , with the edge of terror still in his voice , was talking to keep himself sane ; and the others were listening to try and make sense of the nightmare in which they found themselves . |
| 29 | It had never proved satisfactory , and as she grew older she was beginning to recognise and make sense of the repeating pattern , like someone unrolling a flamboyant wallpaper . |
| 30 | At the start of the 1980s , it seemed to me that until we knew more about the answers to such questions then it would be hard to compare and make sense out of the varied and possibly conflicting results that were coming from different labs . |