Example sentences of "[vb -s] reasonable to assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of the coil is closed , and it seems reasonable to assume that the animal started growing as a coiled shell . |
| 2 | Burnett 's favourite preparation for the treatment of uterine tumours was Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum so not having the LMI gave her the 6C potency in a 10ml dropper and within 3 days she was relieved of the discomfort on walking and standing which it seems reasonable to assume is due to the fibroid shrinking . |
| 3 | It seems reasonable to assume that there was a change in the dominant ideology within the Conservative party in the mid-1970s . |
| 4 | It seems reasonable to assume Fedorov will collect it , despite the danger . |
| 5 | It seems reasonable to assume , therefore , that they are unlikely to come from the Author of Scripture . |
| 6 | On balance it seems reasonable to assume that this coffin was supplied by one of the established London cabinet-makers with a small funeral furnishing interest . |
| 7 | Certainly , it seems reasonable to assume that individuals whose temperamental make-up is more ‘ psychotic ’ , and who therefore have a greater predisposition to psychosis , will be in greatest danger of passing over the threshold into overt illness , just as those of anxious temperament are more likely to develop an anxiety neurosis , and persons whose blood pressure is more labile will carry an enhanced risk of heart attack or stroke . |
| 8 | It seems reasonable to assume that changes in the steady-state responses , as measured in the above experiments , reflect alterations that would also affect the response to synaptically released L-glutamate ( for example , changes in the number , or conductance properties , of AMPA receptors ) . |
| 9 | Though it seems reasonable to assume that the ideal candidate for cardiac transplantation is one who has irreversible cardiac failure and severe symptomatic restrictions despite all treatment but with no requirement for intravenous or interventional support and no secondary end organ damage , in practice many of the patients referred for consideration of transplantation require active support in hospital and have been referred in some cases because they have developed secondary end organ damage . |
| 10 | It seems reasonable to assume that greater consumption of host resources by nematodes causes reductions in host fecundity , and that , as in other parasitic nematodes , bigger worms produce more eggs . |
| 11 | It also seems reasonable to assume that you , the reader , apart from making sense of it , could , if asked , give a large amount of information about it which is not explicitly expressed in it . |
| 12 | We have no hard evidence of the origins of language in prehistoric communities , but it seems reasonable to assume that speech preceded writing and dialogue preceded monologue . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it seems reasonable to assume that the specific nature of the object , and in particular its physical presence , will result in a tendency for it to act in certain distinctive ways , compared with other media of cultural expression . |
| 14 | Since linguistic change and rapid dialect mixing appear to be a general characteristic of urban dialects ( Labov 1972b : 300 ) , it seems reasonable to assume that insight can be gained into the processes of their formation if a set of data from a city is compared with a set from a surrounding area . |
| 15 | If a variable measured in the course of an experiment settles down with time , to a constant , or a maintained oscillation , it seems reasonable to assume that it is approaching some stable , maintained course that corresponds to an equilibrium or periodic solution |
| 16 | It seems reasonable to assume that Oswiu certainly brought into subjection to himself the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu ( between the Forth and the Tay ) , for Bridei , the son of Bili , king of Strathclyde , and Ecgfrith 's cousin ( HB ch. 57 ) , who became king of the Picts on the expulsion of Drest and later fought against Ecgfrith , is described specifically in the Irish annals as ‘ king of Fortriu ’ at his death in 692 ( AU s.a . |
| 17 | It seems reasonable to assume that the arrangements could be completed effectively within that time . |
| 18 | However , it seems reasonable to assume that pragmatic factors in comprehension will also be present in production . |
| 19 | In addition , it seems reasonable to assume that the development will attain an occupancy rate much higher than that at present . |
| 20 | It seems reasonable to assume , for instance , that he was — at least in part — influenced by the calculations of his own defence establishment from 1943 ( calculations which could not easily be challenged until the United States acquired nuclear weapons ) to the effect that the defeat of Germany must make the USSR the dominant military power in Europe . |
| 21 | Contrary to the belief that the fourth century mosaics of this region are the products of consecutive phases of the same school of mosaicists , it now seems reasonable to assume one specific and one more general trend of mosaic building , with many chronological as well as stylistic overlaps . |
| 22 | However , in cases on other provisions of the Act reported to date the courts have adopted a broad , purposive , interpretation , and it therefore seems reasonable to assume that s3 could apply to all the situations described . |
| 23 | From the small number of neonatal stomachs examined it seems that the distribution of parietal cells remains constant after birth , and so it appears reasonable to assume that a definite change in distribution of parietal cells must occur during the third trimester . |