Example sentences of "it make [adj] sense [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Europe moves to become a single market , does it make any sense that Britain should be closing coal mines which are producing coal far cheaper than those in west Germany ? |
| 2 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 3 | Well , it made more sense than ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 4 | With club rates varying from £50–£90 per hour depending on which part of the country you reside in , it makes economic sense if you can afford it to join a group — or perhaps if a little more of the folding stuff is available , to buy your own small PFA type or microlight . |
| 5 | It makes perfect sense that old , disabled and non-adult persons should be excluded from the reference of this phrase , but no sense that women should be excluded — unless the word adult really means adult male . |
| 6 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 7 | First , it makes good sense because everyone understands the language of money as a common denominator which goes across all boundaries . |
| 8 | But Raff speculates that it makes more sense that all cells are suicidal : to survive they have to be constantly reminded by signals from the body that they are loved and cherished . |
| 9 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 10 | It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense . |
| 11 | well what I 'd like I think I 'd like people to do is go away and read this and see if it makes any sense when you 've actually sat and studied it . |