Example sentences of "[pron] make sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in the past voters had looked to parties and party workers to help them make sense of politics , this function was now largely given up to television news broadcasts . |
| 2 | ‘ Come on in and help me make sense of this life I live . ’ |
| 3 | Nothing made sense to her . |
| 4 | Nothing made sense . |
| 5 | Nothing made sense today . |
| 6 | Nothing made sense any more . |
| 7 | In our feasibility study , we found that these two types were both represented in the samples of social work offered to us as examples of secondary prevention , and a distinction between them made sense to the practitioners . |
| 8 | But none of them made sense . |
| 9 | There was so much to tell , and she did n't know how to explain the tangle in a way which made sense . |
| 10 | In 806 , for instance , Charlemagne imagined for his second son Pippin a regnum ( literally : area ruled over ) comprising Italy and Bavaria , which made sense because of historic links between the two regions but overrode the Alps . |
| 11 | Somehow they must disentangle the satellites ( which are for sale ) from the land-based computers and data banks , which make sense of the satellites information but which are not apparently for sale . |
| 12 | Once this is accepted we can seek out the logical consistencies in contextual use which constitute ‘ structural principles ’ and which make sense of otherwise apparently baffling practices and beliefs . |
| 13 | I suggest that these meanings arise from everyday discourse , which habitually makes use of oppositions such as masculinity/femininity , science/arts — oppositions which make sense only in relation to each other . |
| 14 | You have come into a classical company which makes sense of that training but what other ingredients do you think vital ? |
| 15 | Success will depend very largely on the dancer 's own sense of timing and ability so to perform the gestures created that they convey meaning which makes sense within the context of the ballet . |
| 16 | The kind of testimony which makes sense of and verifies ‘ backs ’ is one involving its related activities . |
| 17 | Not only must it have an overall structure which makes sense , but individual paragraphs and sentences must knit together in a coherent fashion that others can readily follow . |
| 18 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 19 | Ask yourself whether the other facts are consistent with this explanation , and see whether you can come up with a pattern of events which makes sense in terms of ordinary human nature . |
| 20 | They make the kind of music which makes sense if you 're driving down 200 miles of American highway , which does n't mean it 's particularly good , as anything loud and vaguely melodic would sound great speeding along Route 66 . |
| 21 | The practical task , then , for a water authority setting or modifying a consent based on criteria relating to the particular watercourse becomes one of persuading a discharger disadvantaged by some criterion which makes sense in utilitarian — but not moral — terms of the force of the agency 's position . |
| 22 | Science was public knowledge and not a craft mystery — religious ‘ mystery ’ too is something which makes sense in practice . |
| 23 | They are beginning to let more and more hotel-type contracts , which makes sense — if we 've got a lot of senior management on a big site , they might as well pick up the housekeeping as well . ’ |
| 24 | It is the only answer which makes sense to me . ’ |
| 25 | Governments may intervene in the railways in a way that undermines managerial autonomy and responsibility , but which makes sense from the point of view of political symbols and messages about productivity and efficiency ; this will become clearer from the case studies in later chapters . |
| 26 | Can , can I make a suggestion to you on this point and that is that rather than worrying about the date of the document itself which makes sense just to put January or something like that , what you actually keep a careful record of and this can be with the issue and such like , is the date from which that procedure is required to be worked to , which would be the issue date as opposed to any date that it was typed or agreed or anything like that . |
| 27 | However , he couches his explanation for these differences not simply at the level of what actual language users ‘ mean ’ , that is in relation to particular cultural practice and institutions ( within which the concept of ‘ relative objectivity ’ might make some sense ) , but instead at the level of what they ‘ say ’ , that is in relation to ‘ the lexical and grammatical structure of languages ’ , at the level of ‘ language-systems ’ , which appears to assume again the notion of absolute ‘ objectivity ’ , since , as we have seen , it offers no cultural context in which to make sense of such systems . |
| 28 | Where once it was the main streets of the decaying inner city which hosted the most fearsome encounter between Britons and their most improbable and intimidating other — black youth — now it is the classrooms and staff rooms of the inner-city school which frame the same conflict and provide the most potent terms with which to make sense of racial difference . |
| 29 | History gives pupils a framework of reference , opportunities for the informed use of leisure , and a critically sharpened intelligence with which to make sense of current affairs . |
| 30 | Sitting down with a slip of graph paper and jotting down a few ideas will help , you make sense of your thoughts . |