Example sentences of "it [verb] more [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would n't it make more sense to land at the Luftwaffe base at Cherbourg ? ’ |
| 2 | But would n't it make more sense to catch that nutter who 's roaming the countryside around here ? ’ |
| 3 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 4 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 5 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
| 6 | One delegation from Oxford City Council says it needs more cash to serve an extra thirteen thousand people whose homes now fall within the the city boundaries . |
| 7 | It can be easily executed from either the leading foot or the back foot , but a roundhouse kick delivered from the rear leg is the more powerful , it has more time to gather speed . |
| 8 | Blood heat should be the highest temperature for a smooth glossy result , although it takes more time to melt . |
| 9 | As the Governor observed , it takes more time to change attitudes , but he thought that progress was being made here too and that the new recruitment would accelerate the process . |
| 10 | It needed more lights to make it brighter . |
| 11 | I thought it required more teachers caring about their subjects as much as he obviously did . |
| 12 | However , with cash in short supply , Dolphin has had to put some of its own SCI product development on hold for the time being , until , as it hopes more cash comes rolling in . |
| 13 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 14 | I could see it running in her until it overflowed , and as fast as it ran more grief took its place until the lane and the streams ran with grief and all the valley was the colour of grief . |
| 15 | It makes more sense to see it as a career development move , providing an understanding and appreciation of both sides of the divide , ’ she says . |
| 16 | ‘ Now that we are getting back to realistic prices and trading performance can justify capital costs , it makes more sense to invest , ’ he said . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In this book , and for the purposes of translation , it makes more sense to take a broader view of cohesion and to consider any element cohesive as long as it signals a conjunctive-type relation between parts of a text , whether these parts are sentences , clauses ( dependent or independent ) , or paragraphs . |
| 20 | However , rather than seeing Jill Duffy and others like her as ‘ pathologically obsessed ’ with housework ( and thus as unrepresentative of the wider housewife population ) it makes more sense to view their behaviour as a rational response to a problematic situation . |
| 21 | In today 's economic climate of high interest rates and a virtually static housing market , it makes more sense to maintain and improve your existing home rather than move on to something bigger and better . |
| 22 | 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 : . |
| 23 | Surely it makes more sense to have a lottery that would benefit the NHS . |
| 24 | It makes more sense to enquire into his attempts to reform this woman , and then to glorify her and her child in a whole series of marvellous drawings , than to establish a dubious fatherhood he in any case assumed at the outset , emotionally and spiritually and with the utmost delight . |
| 25 | These themes are only noted here , because it makes more sense to develop them in Chapter 4 around relevant empirical information . |