(1) She decided to make a virtue of necessity and combined a business trip to Paris with a visit to her cousins there.

(2) Being short of money, I made a virtue of necessity and gave up smoking.

(3) But Simon does not merely make a virtue of necessity.

(4) But since response from ministers by the 1840s was extremely circumspect the reformers were probably making a virtue of necessity.

(5) We would make a virtue of necessity.

(6) I had a couple of months to spare between jobs so I thought I'd make a virtue of necessity by acquiring a few new skills.

(7) We are compelled to get up at 5:30 every morning. So we make a virtue of necessity.