Example sentences of "it might reasonably be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It might reasonably be argued that the single most inflammatory portrayal of Jesus anywhere is in D. H. Lawrence 's The Man Who Dies , published more than fifty years ago , a miniature masterpiece in which Jesus is depicted as having what used to be called ‘ sexual congress ’ with a priestess of Isis in an Egyptian temple . |
2 | Why , it might reasonably be asked , does someone who on paper was merely a competent county allrounder justify a centenary tribute ? |
3 | ‘ The first question to be decided by the court is whether on the undisputed or incontrovertible facts there appears to be a question deserving fuller investigation and whether it might reasonably be held on the substantive hearing that it would be in the interests of the child for a ‘ residence order ’ to be made . |
4 | Adopting that approach to the facts and circumstances of the present application I am satisfied that it raises a question deserving a fuller investigation , and , if that investigation were to favour [ the foster mother ] , that it might reasonably be held on the substantive hearing that it would be in the interests of the children ( or one or more of them ) for a ‘ residence order ’ to be made . |
5 | It might reasonably be expected that a child placed in a special class would make more progress after the placement than during a comparable time period before the placement . |
6 | This is defined as the rent which it might reasonably be expected to command if let from year to year , with the tenant bearing the rates and the cost of insurance and repairs . |
7 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
8 | If the higher rate of detection of M paratuberculosis found in the Crohn 's disease cultures were simply a consequence of the disease process itself , then it might reasonably be expected that the closely related M avium subsp silvaticum would be similarly distributed . |
9 | Erm secondly , it might reasonably be expected to demonstrate that it would be in the interests of either the region , regional or sub- regional economy . |
10 | It might reasonably be queried why this probe was n't taken much further along the vein . |