Example sentences of "is reasonable [verb] [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely it is reasonable to suppose that they have the same feeling as I have when they do so . ’ |
| 2 | Phillips hit upon a plausible resolution of this difficulty by isolating a directly measurable proxy variable for the pressure of demand in the economy in general and in the labour market in particular : the unemployment rate , U. Although X L is an unobservable magnitude , it is reasonable to suppose that it varies inversely with the unemployment rate . |
| 3 | Although there is no precise information about the provenance of all of these finds , it is reasonable to assume that they came from the original excavation of the ‘ villa ’ or from adjacent sites . |
| 4 | There are no studies of the psychological state of IBS patients seen in primary care , but it is reasonable to assume that they represent an intermediate population . |
| 5 | When a Government have a serious problem that has lasted 22 years , cost billions of pounds in security and military provisions and caused immeasurable suffering to some people , it is reasonable to assume that they have a long-term policy for creating lasting peace and ending the waste . |
| 6 | As there was only the one company it is reasonable to infer that everyone roped in for the first loan was in fact a Merchant Taylor . |
| 7 | When a respondent , in reply to the ‘ who am I ? ’ question of the Twenty Statements Test writes ‘ I am a man ’ , ‘ I am a student ’ … it is reasonable to believe that we have far more solid knowledge of the attitudes which organize and direct his behaviour than if , on a checklist and among other questions , we had asked ‘ do you think of yourself as a man ? ’ |
| 8 | If Philip Leapor 's mother was indeed the woman who died in 1726 , it is reasonable to believe that he took over a house which she had occupied , and leased a separate piece of ground for his nursery . |
| 9 | Although this rule could be represented and applied within a symbolic system , it is reasonable to suggest that it has been ‘ learnt ’ by the evolutionary process and is embodied in the flies ' neurophysiology . |