Example sentences of "it make [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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31 In such circumstances he needs all the help that it makes economic sense to provide .
32 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 .
33 It makes unarguable sense to concentrate materials purchases as much as is commercially desirable and to obtain supplies from as few sources as possible .
34 In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure .
35 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 .
36 At that time it makes good sense to separate males from females .
37 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 .
38 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 .
39 It makes good sense to switch over to a lighter routine , just as you adapt to the warm weather by wearing lighter fabrics .
40 So , on that basis , it makes good sense to start on the bigger warrens .
41 Because none of us know when a permanently disabling accident may strike , it makes good sense to protect against the possible effects .
42 Since a number of key personnel served in more than one section and since the new body had plenary as well as sectional meetings , it makes better sense to speak of a single " Commission " than to use the plural terminology of contemporaries .
43 And it makes obvious sense to say that autonomous institutions are not necessarily homes of academic freedom .
44 Can I ask you about er the medium range surface to air missile because er , you wo n't be surprised to learn , that er the committee 's received a number of submissions on this matter er which suggest that er er t to proceed with Eurofighter two thousand without the medium range surface to air missile er I mean to be put rather bluntly to us , that it makes little sense to proceed with the aircraft without a replacement for blood hound .
45 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 .
46 ‘ Now that we are getting back to realistic prices and trading performance can justify capital costs , it makes more sense to invest , ’ he said .
47 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 .
48 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 .
49 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 .
50 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 .
51 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 .
52 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 : .
53 Surely it makes more sense to have a lottery that would benefit the NHS .
54 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 .
55 These themes are only noted here , because it makes more sense to develop them in Chapter 4 around relevant empirical information .
56 It makes some sense to argue that an animal needs less computing power to find leaves , which are abundant all around , than to find fruit , which may have to be searched for , or to catch insects , which take active steps to get away .
57 This is not the same as assessing its impact on the value of the company , although it makes some attempt to do this , as will be described shortly .
58 As we all become more energy conscious , it makes sound sense to install efficient heating equipment and fit proper controls .
59 And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values .
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