Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] sense of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same irony is enriched and plangently deepened in another fine poem by Tate of the same year , in which once again the many Virgilian echoes point to a deeper affinity — with the fable of the Aeneid as making more sense than he can find anywhere else , for the historical predicament that the American Southerner has inherited and must make sense of . |
| 2 | It must make sense of events as they happen and in their immediate aftermath . |
| 3 | I hope you 'll make sense of the notes . |
| 4 | But it was the scientist alone who could make sense of the discoveries , and late eighteenth-century naturalists had already begun to puzzle over the bones of gigantic elephant-like creatures found both in America and in Europe . |
| 5 | There was an intake of angry breath from Lucenzo , and the boatman seemed filled with remorse , but he was bundled off the boat before Meredith could make sense of the man 's mistake . |
| 6 | We did live in a state , where there were others knew more about the world than we did , and could make sense of it for us . |
| 7 | Just as astronomers sought for the pattern and the simple laws that must govern the movements of the stars and planets — making the world a real universe or cosmos , an ordered whole — so naturalists sought an arrangement which would make sense of all the different kinds of creatures that they found . |
| 8 | When he came in the evening — it was by this time unthinkable that there should be an evening when he did not come — he might let slip something that would make sense of this new move . |
| 9 | I just thought that something like that it would be very good practice but if you have a related documents to have a record of the enquiry with it would make sense of the enquiry , even if our situation was different to the other divisions . |
| 10 | You and I have this wonderful mission to share Christ with others , this mysterious treasure who alone can make sense of it all . |
| 11 | I do not think either that we can make sense of the Devil in the language of contemporary philosophy or science ; on the other hand neither do I believe that we should try and invent a modern mythology that makes the Devil more credible and accessible . |
| 12 | What we can do is attempt to get hold of the rules of the game so that we can make sense of a game as it is played . |
| 13 | Radcliffe-Brown , however , elegantly shows us how we can make sense of all this without invoking the tenuous spectre of an earlier ‘ matriarchal ’ stage which he points out would actually have quite the opposite influence . |
| 14 | If the attitudinist can make sense of deductive reasoning as applied to ethical statements , it seems that he can make sense of the embedding of ethical sentences in complex sentences where the attitude they would express on their own is , so to speak , held in reserve . |
| 15 | If the attitudinist can make sense of deductive reasoning as applied to ethical statements , it seems that he can make sense of the embedding of ethical sentences in complex sentences where the attitude they would express on their own is , so to speak , held in reserve . |
| 16 | It is in virtue of such rules that we can make sense of the idea that we are objectively correct to call the new sensation a pain . |
| 17 | erm and now see if you can make sense of it . |
| 18 | So you 've got to get a system where you can something that 'll help you so you can make sense of it and and learn . |
| 19 | The politicians may say Blah but the computers go on saying 0110100 or whatever it is , and it 's the people who can make sense of that who 'll be in the top bunk when the dam breaks . |
| 20 | Being an available technology and the only one that can deliver high quality interactive video , videodiscs continue to be used in training , especially in dedicated applications commissioned by large corporations who can make sense of the economics . |
| 21 | The only way you can make sense of it is that it 's it 's design to get a competitor out of the market . |