Example sentences of "make sense [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Established constitutional theory has made sense of the British constitution and British politics in the following way . |
| 2 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 3 | It had never proved satisfactory , and as she grew older she was beginning to recognise and make sense of the repeating pattern , like someone unrolling a flamboyant wallpaper . |
| 4 | But companies are at last cottoning on to this , and beginning to produce equipment that does n't just make sense to the MIDI-literate studio engineer , but can be incorporated into guitarists ' setups and actually used . |
| 5 | It might make sense to the financial director faced with a demand which far outweighs supply ; after all , this recycling of other houses ' wines is perfectly legal , but it is at the same time deliberately hoodwinking the public . |
| 6 | These choreographic sentences , no matter how short or long , broad or narrow , high or low must make sense within the total pattern or movement traced on the stage . |
| 7 | So his strategy made sense at the same time as it seemed wantonly ruinous . |
| 8 | Somehow Finnan made sense of the tangled labyrinth , and brought them through the lanes and alleys of boats until they could see looming ahead of them the solid sunwashed stone of the city wall . |
| 9 | His analysis made sense of the social changes overcoming the Empire . |
| 10 | Such policies only make sense to the corporate investors and stem from the perceived need to avoid integrating the industry in any but the core capitalist countries . |
| 11 | These interactions make sense of the high degree of sequence conservation observed within the basic helix for different b/HLH/Z proteins , as all the conserved residues make either base or phosphate contacts . |
| 12 | PART ONE POLICIES : MAKING SENSE OF THE INNER CITY |
| 13 | MAKING SENSE OF THE 1981 RIOTS |
| 14 | A great politician is a man who does not interpret the world in which he intends to act on the basis of appearances … he is a man who is capable at all times of making sense of the various motive forces which combine to produce historical events , and which when analysed provide a perspective on the future . |
| 15 | Making sense of the National Curriculum , at the moment of its introduction , is rather like making sense of a jigsaw with no picture on the box and half of the pieces missing . |
| 16 | I remember that there was terrible screaming and that blows were delivered , but for the life of me I ca n't recall ever making sense of the basic problem . |
| 17 | Barely making sense of the murmured words , Isabel responded with a weak smile . |
| 18 | He sees it as : a matter of individuals attempting , incompletely , to make sense of the total environment in which they find themselves and to respond rightly to it . |
| 19 | The final symbolic cue used to make sense of the 1980–1 protests is more difficult to categorize , but its basic meaning can be captured by the term ‘ political marginality ’ . |
| 20 | It was difficult for Charity to make sense of the emotional jumble at the other end . |
| 21 | It has important implications in this context of group psychology , for Freud thinks it helps to make sense of the emotional activity in groups . |
| 22 | The way to make sense of the 17 keV neutrino is to make it a mixture of an electron neutrino and a third-generation ‘ tau neutrino ’ — with the mass provided by the tau neutrino . |
| 23 | They feel that there is a danger of being dazzled by it and thus of missing a unique opportunity to make sense of the early history of animal evolution . |
| 24 | Voters throughout the region are trying to make sense of the new Europe tonight , after the French accepted the Maastricht Treaty by the narrowest of margins . |
| 25 | The conclusions we characteristically reach about this were learned in childhood when we needed to make sense of the many confusing and contradictory recordings in our three ego-states . |
| 26 | In order to try to make sense of the potential multitude of factors that might be considered in valuing shares we need a theoretical framework which , although it may be ( and is ) criticized , will give the discussion and analysis a starting point . |
| 27 | People are trying to make sense of the bad news they have received , and are asking all sorts of questions as a way of regaining control of a situation that has frightened and disturbed them . |
| 28 | The great advantage of his system , with its reliance upon external characters and analogies , was that it enabled him to make sense of the whole animal kingdom without the lifetime of research which Lardner 's schedule made impossible . |
| 29 | Through this it is possible to orient oneself amidst the various schools and to make sense of the anonymous drawings , which constitute the majority . ’ |
| 30 | Whatever is seen as the main cause will depend on the theoretical framework which is used to make sense of the military-industrial complex . |