Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] make sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evans ' caution , however , is understandable , and until the effectiveness or otherwise of more elaborate organizations could be tested in a variety of settings it made sense to list more modest requirements for supportive bases to innovative and resource-based work . |
| 2 | Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place . |
| 3 | For breakthroughs in religion are made by individuals who make sense of the mystery of existence not in their minds but in their hearts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In these difficult times it makes sense to look again at this post . |
| 6 | If an illness has multiple causes it makes sense to attack it on several fronts at once . |
| 7 | Our members wanted it and in many industries it makes sense , but the bigger task , the main event , is to see whether by a more formal relationship , a more formal partnership , we can build a union which is better than the T & G , better than the G M B and better suited for modern conditions than any trade union so far created in Britain . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | First , to what extent are the experiences of women actually represented in the study of these life-areas ; secondly , how does this representation compare with the empirical role of women in social life ; and , lastly , do the subject categorizations themselves make sense from the perspective of women 's particular situation ? |