Example sentences of "reasonable to assume that the " 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 The accusations of republican and Communist links were significant , and Craig obviously believed that it was reasonable to assume that the motives of NICRA were subversive .
3 It is reasonable to assume that the carer 's preference provides some part of the causal explanation ; but it is also likely that the carers ’ preferences were influenced by the severity of the sufferer 's condition , and by whether long-term institutional care was expected , already planned , or already known to be unlikely .
4 Consequently , since the substitutes too are expected to play a role in the manumission ( owing to the general clause ) , it is reasonable to assume that the testator did not intend it to apply to their case too .
5 It is reasonable to assume that the storehouse is our local church .
6 It is reasonable to assume that the territory governed from Knossos , for instance , extended eastwards for roughly half the distance between Knossos and Mallia and southwards for roughly half the distance between Knossos and Phaistos .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 It would be reasonable to assume that the considerable changes that took place in Britain were a result of these large-scale confiscations .
10 Where a person offers a rule in this manner , it is reasonable to assume that the rule constitutes a reason for his actions , and in trying to make sense of the world of the football fan it is reasons , rather than causes , which we are seeking .
11 It is reasonable to assume that the daughters , particularly the elder ones , of such families will have been brought up to share in household chores .
12 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 .
13 If lesion A affects function X but not function Y while lesion B affects function Y but not function N , it is reasonable to assume that the effects observed are specific to the loci of lesions A and B rather than to the general effects of brain damage .
14 If it can be shown that most children recorded as unoccupied in the census also had economically inactive lone mothers then it would be reasonable to assume that the concerns about numerator-denominator bias expressed by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys may be exaggerated .
15 For all practical purposes , it is reasonable to assume that the children classified as unoccupied at the census were living in poverty in one parent families .
16 It seems reasonable to assume that the arrangements could be completed effectively within that time .
17 In addition , it seems reasonable to assume that the development will attain an occupancy rate much higher than that at present .
18 I think it is reasonable to assume that the arrow for computers is the same as that for humans .
19 Studies of adolescents have reported highly negative perceptions of the unemployment ( ag.Gurney , 1981 ) and Breagwell ( 1933 ) suggested that it is not un reasonable to assume that the attribution of attitudes to others , which attack one 's self esteem , may be casually linked to the insecurity and anxiety commonly felt by the unemployed .
20 As expert systems are designed for use by persons who have some general understanding of the knowledge domain , it is reasonable to assume that the user will take at least some of the responsibility for the output obtained .
21 Therefore it is reasonable to assume that the binding properties of the 140k DNA binding domain presented here reflect those of the full 140k polypeptide .
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