Example sentences of "make more sense " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Thatcher insisted it would make more sense to wait and see how it worked out in practice before preparing moves to the more controversial second and third stages of EMU — including a central bank and a single currency .
2 Sleep would perhaps make more sense after thirty-six hours straight on duty , much of it spent with a sullen Jamaican who had killed his landlady and her three children in the crowded kitchen of a house behind the Westway .
3 Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets .
4 If so , it would make more sense and cost less in subsidy to build that new winner within Airbus .
5 With runways congested , a jumbo-jumbo might make more sense than a small jet .
6 In this way you can make more sense of the facts by having useful comparisons .
7 Through reflecting on and articulating aspects of my Christian life and discipleship — my hopes and fears , my successes and failures — with someone who will help me look for the Spirit 's direction , my private world becomes shared , I can make more sense of my pilgrimage and continue in it supported .
8 There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time .
9 In that case , it would make more sense to switch the other two lectures so that shields and banners followed something warlike .
10 But would n't it make more sense to catch that nutter who 's roaming the countryside around here ? ’
11 Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired .
12 It would make more sense to build the ships in this country and use those millions to subsidise the industry .
13 It would make more sense economically to bring them home , and would not create any military threat .
14 Does it make more sense to be beaten 62–7 or play tight competitive fixtures like Southland and NZ Universities as England ‘ B ’ did .
15 Where land is already spoilt , it may make more sense to find appropriate uses for it than to clean it up .
16 At least one can make more sense of this than in our first two cases .
17 In which case it would make more sense to elect proven adulterers instead of discouraging them from public life .
18 ‘ That would make more sense , would it not ?
19 After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky .
20 Hence it may make more sense for soldiers to be in the public sector than street-sweepers .
21 Given the success in getting the Israelis and Palestinians round the table , would it not make more sense for the Government to right that wrong and ensure that , during our presidency from July onwards , we talk directly to the PLO ?
22 Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ?
23 Would it not make more sense to have a moratorium on pit closures in the interests of jobs , the balance of payments and European energy conservation ?
24 A single body modelled on the U S federal communications commission would make more sense .
25 It would make more sense to put some of the money to improving the surfaces of the existing roads , which again compare very unfavourably with our European neighbours .
26 However , if this is north facing it may make more sense to move it to a sunnier position .
27 ‘ Would n't it make more sense to land at the Luftwaffe base at Cherbourg ? ’
28 Now I 'm ha I 'm handing round a summary of last week 's lecture , which I hope will make more sense of it , and I have here , if anybody wants to borrow it , a Xerox of chapter three in Dorkins ' book where he explains the Blind Watchmaker , and the manual for the disk .
29 It would make more sense if it said Tim ran home .
30 That 'd make more sense would n't it ?
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