Example sentences of "it is [adv] reasonable [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is certainly reasonable to suppose that later assertions are accurate and that they sought refuge in exile . |
| 11 | Although no reference to them exists among surviving documents , it is certainly reasonable to assume that James sired children . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is therefore reasonable to assume that they could undertake the order without incurring any further wage costs , so the relevant cost is nil . |
| 23 | It is therefore reasonable to suggest that one of the MOs of a 1 symmetry is largely O 2s in character , while the O 2p z and H ( 1s + 1s ) orbitals combine to generate bonding and anti-bonding MOs . |
| 24 | It is therefore reasonable to suggest that a staging system might be devised which is based upon the type and genetic changes associated with conventional tumour stage and , more importantly , with survival . |
| 25 | It is therefore reasonable to apply the principles of facet analysis in order to evaluate the schemes and to identify any limitations . |
| 26 | Given that Dunrossness is experiencing a boom , it is entirely reasonable to make the most of the boom by selling individual plots of land , if that is the only way one can take advantage of it . |
| 27 | However , bearing these caveats in mind , it is still reasonable to expect children to have made demonstrable progress along the developmental path when they reach key stages in the education system . |
| 28 | We have just about got the thumbprints on the Video and Activity Book contracts and it is fairly reasonable to suppose that the rest will now follow . |
| 29 | Professor Mishan argues that ‘ it is now reasonable to believe that , despite the abundance of man-made goods produced by continued growth , its net effect on human health and happiness could be adverse and possibly disastrous ’ . |
| 30 | 14 , it is more reasonable to ascribe the latter pavement to an assistant of a more competent mosaicist 's workshop . |