Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made no fucking sense at all , but Plummer had his reasons for believing the information . |
| 2 | In this region , it was an involuntary experience , another kind of crusading invasion , and it involved a deep sense of despair and humiliation . |
| 3 | Co-acting with the syllable con- in the passage above is the suggestive use of joie ( joir ) ( cf. the passage from Le Pescheor de Pont seur Saine , above , where it has the clear sense of sexual ecstasy ) , the equally suggestive emphasis on the " entering " of the castle by the knight , and the ambiguity of the past tense of avoir , ot , meaning either " there were " or " she had " . |
| 4 | The conspiracy theory , which lies at the root of National Front ideology , is an argument ; it propounds an uncommon sense , which argues against the commonly shared sense . |
| 5 | By putting pressure on the Poles and Kaszubians to Germanise themselves , it stimulated the very sense of Polish identity it had sought to suppress . |
| 6 | It gave a great sense of shared purpose among the senior managers and staff to agree procedures and instructions quickly in order to get the critical mass of a system operational . |
| 7 | It gives a good sense to the idea that a weakly verifiable statement can only be confirmed or disconfirmed , and never conclusively verified . |
| 8 | We would be inclined to use the first , because it gives a better sense of the feel of the anthology ; but this is a fairly arbitrary decision , where rule-books do not help . |
| 9 | The University of Texas at Austin is very rich — it had the good sense to find oil on its own land . |
| 10 | Although John 's overt behaviour was sometimes violent , it seems likely that it masked a pervasive sense of anxiety , although the precise nature of the anxiety was not clear . |
| 11 | It makes no more sense to talk about solutions without being absolutely clear about what problems they solve , than it does to talk about excellent answers to questions that have never been posed . |
| 12 | It makes no more sense to say that the perspectival appearance is true ( or false ) of the object than it would be to say that the size of the angle of a triangle is true ( or false ) of the other two angles , which determine its size . |
| 13 | It makes no earthly sense . ’ |