sensible advice

collocation in English

meaningsofsensibleandadvice

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sensible
adjective
uk
/ˈsen.sə.bəl/us
/ˈsen.sə.bəl/
based on or acting on good judgment and practical ideas ...
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advice
noun[U]
uk
/ədˈvaɪs/us
/ədˈvaɪs/
an opinion that someone offers you about what you should do or how you should act in a ...
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(Definition ofsensibleandadvicefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsensible advice

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It especially gives clearsensibleadviceon benzodiazepine misuse.
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He'd begin with a joke, end with another one, and in between he packed muchsensibleadvice.
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These advertisements set out the facts of the matter and give clear andsensibleadviceto consumers.
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All of that wassensibleadvicefor universities, vice-chancellors, university senates and councils.
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In sifting through the consultation replies, we shall take on board allsensibleadvicefrom whatever source.
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We shall hope to get goodsensibleadviceto meet these difficulties, and to have the power to prescribe what should be a reasonable charge.
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It states that a provisional diagnosis can be put in place after six weeks, with accompanyingsensibleadviceon rest and activity.
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I have constituents who have lost out on their state pension entitlement because they were not provided withsensibleadvice.
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Given a littlesensibleadvicefrom people who knew the shop floor, a bad practice of that sort could have been stopped much earlier.
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That issensibleadvice, but it is advice.
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It has been difficult to give them anysensibleadvice.
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That is perhapssensibleadvice, but he made some comments about this matter.
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Most of us could give examples of the kind of people who might give very good andsensibleadviceand who are not lawyers.
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Its main role is to make widely and easily available authoritative andsensibleadviceon a wide range of issues linked to good health.
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We look forward to practical andsensibleadviceon the subject from the council by the end of the year.
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When we were defending, we were not so defence minded as not to givesensibleadviceto a client.
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While trying to cope with those problems, my social services department cannot possibly hope to provide the children withsensibleadviceabout asylum-seeking procedures.
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What often passes forsensibleadviceis usually very dull advice.
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I am sure that that is verysensibleadvice.
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But we also know that we have now reached a state of public opinion in which the public would be genuinely receptive tosensibleadvice.
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