Example sentences of "do [adv] make sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not make sense to her . |
| 2 | It did not make sense , so she gave up thinking about it . |
| 3 | It did not make sense . |
| 4 | It did not make sense . |
| 5 | The graveside note about missing her ‘ Darling Daddy ’ did not make sense to anyone who knew the family , since Diana rarely saw her father . |
| 6 | Even after the fact , their violent behaviour just did not make sense . |
| 7 | Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual . |
| 8 | Mr Whitelaw dealt with the question normally by saying that it was no doubt a suitable kind of punishment for schoolboys , but it did not make sense for judicial use , especially because of the delay between offence and punishment . |
| 9 | Whatever name the frightened young Pole spoke it did not make sense and when a sergeant said , ‘ It sounds like Wolski sir , ’ and smiled , Wolski took the cue and smiled back and nodded , patting the horse and looking positive . |
| 10 | It did not make sense to see all the lower animals as merely immature versions of humankind , nor was it possible to assume that every extinct population had been perfectly adapted to the conditions of its own time . |
| 11 | In it , the Welsh Office stated that a solution for Wales had to take into account four major factors which distinguished it from England : the Welsh Office had been responsible for public sector higher education in Wales since 1978 ; the scale of the problem was quite different in that only eight local authorities and a small number of colleges were involved ; the Regional Advisory Council for the whole of Wales , the WJEC , was made up of these local authorities ; and it did not make sense , either on economic or educational grounds , to expect colleges in Wales to provide as wide a range of provision as would be expected in England . |
| 12 | His words did not make sense at all . |
| 13 | This did not make sense . |
| 14 | Under present legislation dedicated funds attracted 35-40 per cent income tax , and that did not make sense . |
| 15 | ‘ I am sorry if I do not make sense . ’ |
| 16 | Thus many techniques for analysis and reaction presented through in-service training as ‘ cut flowers ’ , have failed to grow in schools because they do not make sense to the teachers once back in their schools . |
| 17 | It is not clear to me precisely what purpose these tests are meant to serve ( there must be a ‘ hidden agenda ’ , as the overt reasons given do not make sense ) , but I can see several disadvantages : |
| 18 | It did n't make sense . |
| 19 | It did n't make sense . |
| 20 | The door was still six inches above it , though … it did n't make sense to build a door high if the water was usually lower … not unless there was a step somewhere … a step or a walkway even , for the loading and unloading of boats … |
| 21 | I tried this on from various directions , but it still did n't make sense . |
| 22 | Delaney thought about it , and decided it did n't make sense , unless it was looking for something that it badly needed . |
| 23 | It did n't make sense . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Reenan has revealed that other parts of his tape ‘ simply did n't make sense ’ . |
| 25 | It did n't make sense . |
| 26 | No matter how he looked at it , it did n't make sense . |
| 27 | Emily rubbed her eyes as the figures swam before her , that did n't make sense . |
| 28 | Did n't make sense . |
| 29 | After all , what happened was n't my fault , could n't have been , it just did n't make sense . |
| 30 | She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched . |