Example sentences of "[vb -s] more sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has more sense than you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Now that we are getting back to realistic prices and trading performance can justify capital costs , it makes more sense to invest , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Astra makes more sense as a public company than the Salim Group , mainly because its core businesses are obvious and integrated . |
| 4 | For certain technologies , notably strategic defence against nuclear weapons , researching makes more sense than deploying a half-baked system . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently . |
| 7 | So what makes more sense — buying two at £15 each and losing one , or buying one at £30 and seeing it thrive ? |
| 8 | It makes more sense to enquire into his attempts to reform this woman , and then to glorify her and her child in a whole series of marvellous drawings , than to establish a dubious fatherhood he in any case assumed at the outset , emotionally and spiritually and with the utmost delight . |
| 9 | It also makes more sense when it comes to keeping to your target weight once you have reached it . |
| 10 | Surely it makes more sense to have a lottery that would benefit the NHS . |
| 11 | AND FROM THE RACISM THAT SADLY AFFLICTS US ALL AND LEADS WHITE PEOPLE TO ASSOCIATE INFERIORITY AND DARKNESS , KURTEN 'S RECONSTRUCTION MAKES MORE SENSE , SINCE NEANDERTHALS LIVED IN GLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS AND LIGHT SKIN MAY BE AN ADAPTATION TO LIFE IN MIDDLE TO HIGH LATITUDES . |
| 12 | In fact the period seems somewhat variable , so that it makes more sense to talk of a 22-year cycle between one sunspot ‘ high ’ and , not the next , but the one after that . |
| 13 | That old-fashioned , risky art-historical game of influences makes more sense than usual here . |
| 14 | It makes more sense to see it as a career development move , providing an understanding and appreciation of both sides of the divide , ’ she says . |
| 15 | However , rather than seeing Jill Duffy and others like her as ‘ pathologically obsessed ’ with housework ( and thus as unrepresentative of the wider housewife population ) it makes more sense to view their behaviour as a rational response to a problematic situation . |
| 16 | It makes more sense . |
| 17 | These themes are only noted here , because it makes more sense to develop them in Chapter 4 around relevant empirical information . |
| 18 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 19 | Or maybe maybe that is n't the first thing you want to do , if you want to do it a different way , do it whichever makes more sense to you . |
| 20 | In this book , and for the purposes of translation , it makes more sense to take a broader view of cohesion and to consider any element cohesive as long as it signals a conjunctive-type relation between parts of a text , whether these parts are sentences , clauses ( dependent or independent ) , or paragraphs . |
| 21 | It is the same ball game and , and as far as I , as far as I 'm concerned it makes more sense |
| 22 | Besides , it makes more sense to me to believe your brother was the victim of one of the many enemies I 'm sure he made in the course of his life . |
| 23 | In today 's economic climate of high interest rates and a virtually static housing market , it makes more sense to maintain and improve your existing home rather than move on to something bigger and better . |
| 24 | A government guarantee of risky loans to new ventures makes more sense . |
| 25 | On this basis it makes more sense for an investor to invest in promise than in reality . |
| 26 | The former policy makes more sense since it is still promise that is being sold on . |
| 27 | These relations between finite coordinate distances are generally so inconvenient that it makes more sense to start calculations from the differentials which do transform linearly : . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It seems that it makes more sense to the majority of people if we tell you how much faster ( or slower ) than a common reference machine the test machine is . |
| 30 | Similarly , although the bog standard graphics cards from Hercules to VGA are supported , VGA makes more sense than CGA . |