Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desperately needing to justify her own actions , minimise her behaviour , she thought it all through again from the beginning until it made even less sense than it had before . |
| 2 | This is partly a result of private acquisition of forest lands prior to the General Revision Act of 1891 , when it made more economic sense to annex high quality , easily accessible forests . |
| 3 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 4 | Around this time , Bruckner likened himself to a watchdog that had slipped its chain ; and four-square as much of the Study Symphony is , it conveys just that sense of a barely-checked yearning for the epic symphonic tussles that Bruckner seems to have been fated to undertake . |
| 5 | Maybe the farmer or his tenant will ask for a percentage of the kill within the agreement , but it makes jolly good sense to ensure that anyone who likes to eat a rabbit and who can influence your sport is well looked after . |
| 6 | One thing 's for certain , though : committing this kind of money on equipment is a serious business , so buying all the components from the same company makes sense from the back-up point of view , and as the hard work has been taken out of the design — ie. flightcase , patch cables , mains feeds etc. — it makes even more sense . |
| 7 | It makes even less sense in view of the collapse of the TUC 's regional day-release programme . |
| 8 | It it does it makes far more sense |
| 9 | It makes far more sense to do two for the first day , then you can judge how many you can get through in a day from those two . |
| 10 | It would , however , be rather contentious to describe the men 's conversation as illogical , since it makes perfectly good sense . |
| 11 | " I " m not so young as I used to was " is wrong , except that when Somerset Maughan makes a Cockney landlady say it , it makes perfectly good sense . |
| 12 | His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness . |
| 13 | Sometimes it makes very good sense to borrow money for something . |
| 14 | It makes as much sense to bet on the survival of the Government 's EMS policy as to look for tranquility in west Beirut . |
| 15 | It makes as much sense as treating burns with a blow torch . |
| 16 | If competitors and circumstances are regarded as the " enemy " then It makes as much sense for a corporation to have alternative objectives as it does for a military commander . |