Example sentences of "[verb] reasonable [to-vb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that this same five-part texture is used for all the dances of this ballet , it seems reasonable to conclude that a string band must have formed the basis of the instrumental ensemble . |
| 2 | It seems reasonable to suspect that a certain political and military stability had first to be achieved and that the capacity to make law required consensus and mature counsel among the wiser men of the realm who advised the king which transcended his purely personal ambition . |
| 3 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Certainly , it would seem reasonable to believe that a problem affecting society generally will also occur in an age group which , as we have seen , faces a multitude of social and emotional difficulties . |
| 6 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |