"show common sense" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to remind someone to use good judgement, use reason, or make a sensible decision. For example, "Please show common sense when making a decision about this project."
The ICO asks for companies to show common sense in such cases".
"Within the team protocols, they are expected to behave responsibly and show common sense but there are no curfews in place.
"In these conditions, we again resolutely call on all those who are trying to impose the results of the U.N. investigations and who say that armed actions against Syria is possible to show common sense and avoid tragic mistakes," Mr. Lukashevich said in a statement released Sunday evening on the ministry's Web site.
Yet charging reporters with these crimes would not show common sense.
"All the referee needed to do was show common sense, which is sometimes hard for them," Cox told BBC Radio Devon.
AFC Telford boss Liam Watson told BBC Radio Shropshire: "I thought the referee didn't show common sense for the whole game, he was card happy - a lot of them think it is about them rather than about the game".
The referee, Sonia Denoncourt of Canada, showed common sense in deciding that Mellgren had not blatantly positioned her upper arm to control the ball.
The N.R.A., instead of showing common sense in addressing the issue of children and guns, has been issuing pro-gun statements that verge on parody.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry applauded the committee's suggestion, saying in a statement that the Senate had shown "common sense and respect for the law".
Mr Allawi has already shown common sense in his handling of the many militias owing allegiance to Iraq's various political groups and by letting many soldiers and civil servants who served Saddam Hussein return to the fold.
Did we really need to obliterate Afghanistan and Iraq to get the guy who committed mass murder on Sept. 11? JOHN E. COLBERT Chicago, May 8, 2011 To the Editor: As a lawyer who takes the rule of law quite seriously, I was thankful that Maureen Dowd showed common sense in her thoughtful discussion of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
