Example sentences of "[verb] more sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has more sense than you . ’ |
| 2 | Williams had a good ear , and since his death some of his admirers have made more sense of his procedures than he could ever make for himself , but the lamentable effect of his example has been to lead poets to trust their ear implicitly , thus discrediting the very notion of measure . |
| 3 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 4 | But I think if we 'd made ‘ Rumours ’ then ‘ Mirage ’ then ‘ Tango ’ and then ‘ Tusk ’ it probably would have made more sense from the listeners ' point of view . |
| 5 | Would the whole story not have made more sense had Jupiter been identified with the Sun , Venus with the Moon , and so on ? |
| 6 | Would n't ‘ To My Daughter ’ have made more sense ? |
| 7 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 8 | One of the arguments of the present paper is that the reforms would have made more sense and been more appropriate for our purposes had we successfully translated and adapted the lessons learned from the North American experience with case management , focused on the real messages of the PSSRU experiments , and waited until the RDP case management evaluation was complete ( Cooney , 1992 ) before contemplating the introduction of the reforms . |
| 9 | Surely , with your background , something in the hotel line would have made more sense ? ’ |
| 10 | Knowing Carol , of course , it would have made more sense to ask if I 'd come out of things in one piece — the piece in question being in the genitalia region . |
| 11 | He wished he 'd had more sense than to get a lift with Mrs Wright . |
| 12 | ‘ He should have had more sense . ’ |
| 13 | I should have had more sense . |
| 14 | In addition to all the rationally established facts I formulate in the indicative mood , there is the imperative to respect them , expressed in injunctions of varying generality imposing varying degrees of obligation , ‘ You ought to know that ’ , ‘ You should have had more sense ’ , ‘ You had better check that ’ , ‘ You were wrong to overlook that ’ , and sometimes directly in the imperative mood , ‘ Face facts ’ ‘ Know thyself ’ , ‘ Think what you 're doing ’ . |
| 15 | If he succumbs to temptation after all and suffers the consequences , it would be to the point to say ‘ You should have known better ’ or ‘ You ought to have had more sense ’ , reproaches which derive their authority from ‘ Face facts ’ ; but it would be irrelevant ( and exasperating ) to say ‘ You should n't have made yourself ill like that ’ , on the authority of the ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ of the practical syllogism interpreted as ‘ Do n't get sick ’ . |
| 16 | But by the same token , the girl should have had more sense than to walk along a road like that in the dark . |
| 17 | You 'd have thought he 'd have had more sense . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ God knows I should have had more sense . |
| 19 | Oliver would have had more sense and initiative . |
| 20 | ‘ I only hope he 's had more sense than to leave her money ! |
| 21 | ‘ You 've got more sense in your little finger than he 's got in his clever young head . ’ |
| 22 | " I just hope you two girls have got more sense than ever to set a foot out there . " |
| 23 | David 's got more sense than I ever had and Chris is a good girl . |
| 24 | I hope you 've got more sense than Bailey here . |
| 25 | It 's pure electioneering and I know the people in Darlington have got more sense . |
| 26 | Your son 's got more sense than me , look I 've put a coat on I 'm sitting here sweating |
| 27 | He 's got more sense . |
| 28 | They 've probably got more sense ! |
| 29 | You get more sense out of a virtually , than what you get out of that ! |
| 30 | The album 's apparent randomness made more sense when you saw the movie . |