Example sentences of "reasonable to assume that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore reasonable to assume that they could undertake the order without incurring any further wage costs , so the relevant cost is nil . |
| 2 | In whichever way the results of an assessment are communicated , it is reasonable to assume that they may have important implications for the way in which the child is dealt with in the future . |
| 3 | Although there is no precise information about the provenance of all of these finds , it is reasonable to assume that they came from the original excavation of the ‘ villa ’ or from adjacent sites . |
| 4 | However , it is reasonable to assume that they will , initially at least , be relatively inexpensive , and , due to the increasing scarcity of genuine nomadic and tribal weaving , may well become more collectable in the future . |
| 5 | When a Government have a serious problem that has lasted 22 years , cost billions of pounds in security and military provisions and caused immeasurable suffering to some people , it is reasonable to assume that they have a long-term policy for creating lasting peace and ending the waste . |
| 6 | There are no studies of the psychological state of IBS patients seen in primary care , but it is reasonable to assume that they represent an intermediate population . |
| 7 | The 1555 survey contains forty-six ( exclusive of men who were also freeholders ) , and it is reasonable to assume that something like thirty held land that was sublet in 1522 , an estimate that finds a measure of confirmation in the subsidy schedule which , perhaps in deference to the provision for the taxing of income from customary holdings , mentions the landed wealth of twenty-six men who were assessed on goods . |
| 8 | Unfortunately we do not have a detailed , turn-by-turn transcription of her interactions , but it is reasonable to assume that her linguistic accommodation was preceded by an assessment of how her interlocutor might be expected to talk ; in other words , that Sue 's assumption of a persona would be mediated through a stereotype of the linguistic behaviour of the group to which she felt her customer belonged . |
| 9 | However , given that people 's personal valuation of environmental qualities ( such as the open countryside ) has tended to increase in proportion to the degree to which they are degraded through development , it is reasonable to assume that what may appear to be a net benefit to the present generation in a trade-off between the environment and a proposed development , is quite likely to be considered a net loss in retrospect by a future generation for whom the natural environment has become a more precious commodity . |
| 10 | However , given that people 's personal valuation of environmental qualities ( such as the open countryside ) has tended to increase in proportion to the degree to which they are degraded through development , it is reasonable to assume that what may appear to be a net benefit to the present generation in a trade-off between the environment and a proposed development , is quite likely to be considered a net loss in retrospect by a future generation for whom the natural environment has become a more precious commodity . |
| 11 | Therefore , if you are confronted with a rug decorated in an intricate and curvilinear floral-inspired scheme , it is reasonable to assume that it probably originates from a workshop group in one of the limited number of countries which specialize in these designs . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 14 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 15 | He showed particular interest in that subsidence , it 's reasonable to assume that his object was to return to it at a time when there would be no one around to interfere with him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Sybil also heard Angy giving Delia her address so it 's reasonable to assume that she was expecting a visit from her some time . |
| 18 | It seems reasonable to assume that there was a change in the dominant ideology within the Conservative party in the mid-1970s . |