Example sentences of "it is [adv] reasonable [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All other questions were secondary , so it is not reasonable to reproach him for not being a nationalist . |
| 2 | Challenged by Mr Wilson on whether his comments applied to the whole network , Mr Freeman replied : ‘ The concept of peak and off-peak relate primarily to commuting services , including those in PTE areas … where little use is made of off-peak services , so it is not reasonable to stipulate hard and fast services . ’ |
| 3 | It is not reasonable to hold them too long while doves flutter between Moscow and Baghdad , while sandstorms gather and temperatures rise . |
| 4 | It is not reasonable to suggest that hooliganism is merely inflated by the press and best treated by ‘ radical non-intervention ’ . |
| 5 | However , a Commissioner may still investigate if he is satisfied that it is not reasonable to expect the complainant to use or have used this right . |
| 6 | Given their manpower resources , it is not reasonable to expect the police to be able to enforce rigorously a large-scale , blanket speed limit in residential areas and it is apparent that they do not try to do so . |
| 7 | It is not reasonable to expect one person to be solely responsible for fundraising , campaigning or recruitment work . |
| 8 | It is not reasonable to expect Hong Kong to continue to accept , year in , year out , large numbers of people coming from Vietnam — not because they have a well founded fear of persecution , but because they want to better the economic lot of themselves and their families . |
| 9 | It is not reasonable to expect a tenant to have to accept construction works which may differ from those in the building documents and accordingly be less beneficial to the tenant than it may be expecting as a result of what the surveyors may be perceived to notice on an inspection . |
| 10 | The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place . |
| 11 | As a broad generalization , it is thus reasonable to say that the role of tight labour markets in driving up real wages eclipsed that of competition in product markets as the boom progressed . |
| 12 | When we consider temperament in horses , and especially in families , it is most reasonable to look at the stallions in a family to get a more valid picture of the family characteristics , as stallions often exhibit traits of temperament to greater extremes than geldings and mares . |
| 13 | It is surely reasonable to maintain that the parties assumed to contract in the light of the scientific knowledge prevailing at the time of delivery . |
| 14 | Since we are quite different in our behavioural capacities , notably in our possessing language , this may reflect a lack of subtlety on the part of the anatomists but it is probably reasonable to assume that the input and output ends of the system are pretty much the same in monkeys as in people . |
| 15 | Third , it is also reasonable to assume that if there is some quality in Eve which completes Adam , that she is different and that this difference in focus can frequently add a valuable insight to the decision-making process . |
| 16 | Graduates , whom Smith classed as gentlemen , and men of £10 a year were privleged to dress like their betters ; it is also reasonable to infer that a sizeable proportion of those who feature in the various returns as minor landowners were in effect ex-officio gentlemen , qualified by tenure of lesser public appointments . |
| 17 | It is hardly reasonable to expect the children to concentrate on sharing out the last of their emergency rations if the dinner ladies are putting out tables for lunch . |
| 18 | But , having given permission and encouraged the port authority and dock company to move in and operate a port , which is a major long term undertaking , it is hardly reasonable to seek to stop or materially limit it without compensation and when the dock company is doing no more than making a success of that for which permission was granted . |
| 19 | It is certainly reasonable to suppose that later assertions are accurate and that they sought refuge in exile . |
| 20 | Although no reference to them exists among surviving documents , it is certainly reasonable to assume that James sired children . |
| 21 | In these circumstances I feel it is perfectly reasonable to ask for the full refund of £29.50 , not to mention compensation for all the vexation and trouble I have been caused . |
| 22 | It is perfectly reasonable to select a job advertisement for a similar post in a particular publication and to ask that journal to tell you what was the size of the response . |
| 23 | Although it is quite reasonable to ask a human being to search by eye through a moderate number of drawings of artefacts it is not reasonable where thousands are involved . |
| 24 | While it would be wrong to expect inspectors to use observation schedules ( on the grounds that they do not allow the inspectors to keep an open mind on what they observe ) , it is quite reasonable to ask that they be explicit about the evidence collected and its basis . |
| 25 | Similarly , if you are in covenant relationship with others in a church , then when such a need arises it is quite reasonable to do it because it needs doing . |
| 26 | It is quite reasonable to make this identification : in practice , a process which can either behave correctly or diverge will probably do the former while it is being tested , but will do the latter when it is being used in earnest . |
| 27 | Although this difficulty could be resolved by adopting some kind of stratified sampling procedure ( Trudgill , for example , sampled four electoral wards of which the social characteristics were known ) , a more general question emerges of whether it is always reasonable to take the population of an urban area as a sampling universe , when in fact a high proportion of the higher-status people who work in that city actually reside in neighbouring towns . |
| 28 | It is therefore reasonable to conclude that the existence of space-like singularities is likely to be a generic feature of colliding plane wave solutions . |
| 29 | In general L and P are not equal and it is therefore reasonable to ask if there are theoretical reasons for favouring one over the other . |
| 30 | Strategy , in this everyday sense , is incompatible with the abolition of the subject , and it is therefore reasonable to suppose that Poulantzas is not proposing to explain the course of the class struggle in terms of the ingenuity exercised by classes and class members in realising their goals . |