Example sentences of "make good sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 2 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 3 | It all made good sense at the time , but it has turned the middle-classes into sitting ducks , waiting to be plucked by Mr Smith . |
| 4 | It made good sense . ’ , |
| 5 | It made good sense , of course , for the writers to celebrate the deeds of prowess of their aristocratic patrons . |
| 6 | Larry said the acquisition made good sense because the Boston Five is the best mortgage bank in New England , and is a good retail bank with tremendous growth potential through improved product marketing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He then proceeded to make some characteristically common-sense comments which might seem to carping critics to pre-empt that inquiry , but who cares about that , provided his comments made good sense , which they did ? |
| 9 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 10 | The East Wings of both Knossos and Zakro make better sense interpreted as sanctuaries ( see Castleden 1989 , pp. 48–51 , 90–2 ) . |
| 11 | The image was well established ; and it is hardly surprising that when , in 1521 , the canny and obsessively fair-minded scholar John Major produced his book entitled A History of Greater Britain , in which he argued that better relations with England would make good sense , for political and economic reasons , the plea fell on ears deafened by the awareness that a little nation had fought off a monster by courage and tenacity . |
| 12 | ‘ And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’ |
| 13 | But this principle does not constrain the courts to invent an ambiguity or to construe an ambiguity in a way which does not make good sense . |
| 14 | So perhaps you feel that while all this talk about kinship and affinity may make good sense in discussions of the social life of Australian Aborigines or of Trobriand Islanders in Melanesia , it really has very little relevance for ourselves who live in a social context in which , as a general rule , affinity is of little significance and the majority of social relationships outside the domestic family are coded in quite a different way . |
| 15 | It would make good sense to increase that cadre of coaches to five . |
| 16 | Bodyguards make good sense . ’ |
| 17 | We shall see that explanations of social systems in terms of a male reproductive strategy contingent on a female rearing strategy make good sense in attempts at understanding the evolution of primate societies . |
| 18 | Sceptical doubts about objectivity make good sense within a practice ; there are objectively correct answers to questions how to go on , and if challenged in a particular case , we can support our choice by appeal to the rule ( 'Why did you write 20,002 ? ’ 'Because you told me to go on adding 2' ) . |
| 19 | We 've known each other since childhood , after all , so it would be convenient , and make good sense . |
| 20 | Groups are good fun — and make good sense . |
| 21 | It would make better sense if the money which new contractors raised to sustain their bids were to go , as the Campaign for Quality Television ( CQT ) urges , into programme-making . |
| 22 | However , when teacher appraisal is a firm part of educational reform , it would make better sense if certain aspects of management in initial teacher education could consciously be brought together with the assessment of teacher capacity . |
| 23 | The significant difference was that by the 1750s this speculation in land looked like making good sense . |
| 24 | Frankie 's records made best sense in a cheap British disco , where the elementary chorus chants , the beat machines ' seedy grandeur , and the stodgy vocals had distinct echoes of Gary Glitter . |
| 25 | Since it always ends up being drawn back to Europe , a presence that can be swiftly reinforced makes better sense than a withdrawal followed by a panicky rush back when some new danger arises . |
| 26 | In the present climate it is not just a matter of professional duty to stay engaged with the possibility of change : it makes better sense . |
| 27 | It makes better sense in any event to look for more specific and precise terms . |
| 28 | If viewed in this light , the argument makes better sense , although of course it acquires an entirely new complexion . |
| 29 | It makes better sense as a macellum , or market building , several of which are known in the larger towns of Britain , as well as in some Rhine and Danube frontier towns . |
| 30 | It has been identified as the Alauna of the Ravenna list by Rivet and Smith , although Richmond and Crawford earlier assigned this name to Alchester , which in some ways makes better sense , since its neighbours quoted in the list would indicate that it lies on the road from Silchester to the south Midlands ; nevertheless the derivation of the name of the River Alne from Alauna , and hence the name of the town on or near that river , is an attractive argument in favour of Rivet and Smith . |