Example sentences of "it makes [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes practical sense to train suitable spokesmen . |
| 2 | It makes economic sense , particularly if the prospectus is printed commercially , to run off a substantial number at one time . |
| 3 | With club rates varying from £50–£90 per hour depending on which part of the country you reside in , it makes economic sense if you can afford it to join a group — or perhaps if a little more of the folding stuff is available , to buy your own small PFA type or microlight . |
| 4 | In such circumstances he needs all the help that it makes economic sense to provide . |
| 5 | If , for whatever reason , a husband initially commands higher rates of pay than his wife it makes economic sense for him to ‘ specialize ’ in paid work and let her shoulder the brunt of the partnership 's unpaid chores ( Becker , 1981 , 1985 ; for a critique see Owen , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | He says there are a number of ecological as well as economic reasons — it 's a longer , stronger tougher fibre — it makes a longer-lasting paper and it makes economic sense to grow the material in this country rather than importing it . |
| 7 | It makes unarguable sense to concentrate materials purchases as much as is commercially desirable and to obtain supplies from as few sources as possible . |
| 8 | ‘ It makes perfect sense . |
| 9 | It makes perfect sense that old , disabled and non-adult persons should be excluded from the reference of this phrase , but no sense that women should be excluded — unless the word adult really means adult male . |
| 10 | It makes perfect sense . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't look so surprised , it makes perfect sense . |
| 12 | Economically , it makes perfect sense . ’ |
| 13 | It makes perfect sense , simple addition and subtraction , but no one figured the tracking speed into the equation . |
| 14 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 15 | As a final point about the root definition , it is sometimes useful to express it as a statement to see if it makes reasonable sense , and to double-check that all the CATWOE factors have been considered . |
| 16 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
| 17 | European manufacturers invariably make plain tiles alongside their interlocking tiles , and it makes good sense for a manufacturer to be able to offer both types of product . |
| 18 | Considering what is already known about muscle , it makes good sense . |
| 19 | At that time it makes good sense to separate males from females . |
| 20 | So , on that basis , it makes good sense to start on the bigger warrens . |
| 21 | Because none of us know when a permanently disabling accident may strike , it makes good sense to protect against the possible effects . |
| 22 | Because there were discontinuities as well as continuities , it makes good sense to say that modern chemistry emerged through a dialectical process in which the enthusiasms of the Paracelsian chemists were tempered by their critics . |
| 23 | Skills that he wishes to rehearse with them may be part of the programme of another department also , and it makes good sense to have some consultation and perhaps co-ordination . |
| 24 | And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one . |
| 25 | It makes good sense for housing associations to buy several houses in adjoining streets for ease of monitoring and staff support . |
| 26 | It makes good sense to switch over to a lighter routine , just as you adapt to the warm weather by wearing lighter fabrics . |
| 27 | If a group anticipates no response at all , a blunt refusal , or even an attack upon its very integrity , then it makes good sense to keep its political head down below the level of activity . |
| 28 | Have it written as a P E P and it makes good sense . |
| 29 | First , it makes good sense because everyone understands the language of money as a common denominator which goes across all boundaries . |
| 30 | This need not be a problem , especially as each will have a different approach to the same material , but it makes obvious sense on many counts if the teachers are each prepared for this by consultation . ) |