Example sentences of "seem reasonable " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases these arrangements may seem reasonable , In others they are clearly a-rip-off' . |
| 2 | This might seem reasonable enough . |
| 3 | That may seem reasonable , but it 's a lot for Poland , where a million and a half zlotys a month is considered more or less an average wage . |
| 4 | This may seem reasonable or even ‘ fair ’ . |
| 5 | Now that we have been offered the choice and the opportunity to buy produce that has n't been sprayed or hybridised , it does seem reasonable to expect that flavour will return . |
| 6 | Does that seem reasonable to you ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It would certainly seem reasonable for someone in his position to have a fairly large sum to hand , ’ he said . |
| 8 | At a minimum it would seem reasonable to return to the stark simplicity of the RSPCA 150 years ago and agree not to inflict pain on my fellow creatures because pain helps no one and the infliction of it brutalises me . |
| 9 | It would seem reasonable to define pain and to measure its intensity in terms of the amount of morphine which a patient freely chooses to take in order to restore his own comfort . |
| 10 | It would seem reasonable to call a drug an analgesic for a rat if it delays the time when the rat licks its feet when parked on a hot plate . |
| 11 | Since Alexander Pope declared that ‘ the proper study of mankind is man ’ it would seem reasonable for social scientists to observe the behaviour of their fellow men and women . |
| 12 | But where results can be presented in tabular form it does seem reasonable to expect that there is sufficient uniformity of approach to have allowed for more than one interviewer , and , of course , for subsequent repetition of the interviews , so as to replicate the enquiry . |
| 13 | ‘ Does it still seem reasonable ? ’ |
| 14 | Most guitarists would expect to pay anything between £500 and £1000 for an all-American , quality-built , pro-standard instrument , and as the EGs here fit that bill , their asking price of around £800 would seem reasonable . |
| 15 | Superficially it may seem reasonable to prefer a firmly-held end to a faint altruistic stirring which is easily dismissed . |
| 16 | So it would seem reasonable to suggest that second language learners might proceed in a similar way ( cf. |
| 17 | If they do figure so prominently in competence , it does not seem reasonable just to disregard their existence and leave their learning to chance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It would seem reasonable to suggest that it was this waking preoccupation of his that Qused his subconscious to produce the relevant dream . |
| 20 | If homo sapiens is unequivocally demarcated from the rest of the animal kingdom by the language barrier then it would seem reasonable to accord something like honorary status to those existing in its image , as it were , but otherwise enfeebled through age or retardation . |
| 21 | That might seem reasonable , except that in China it is quite normal for ailing politicians to be filmed for the evening television news on their sick beds , perhaps receiving wishes for a speedy recovery from solicitous friends . |
| 22 | However , although he says this , partly to emphasise that the truth of the matter is quite independent of the question whether we know it , it would seem reasonable to expect that , if there is a real truth here into which we might have rational insight , careful attention to just what is at issue will bring about convergence . |
| 23 | His argument begins with a rejection of ‘ universalism ’ and a claim that different varieties of language can be associated with different levels of such general qualities as ‘ objectivity ’ : ‘ there are gross differences among languages , such that it does seem reasonable to say of some that they allow their users to approximate to neutral , objective description ’ . |
| 24 | It would seem reasonable them , that we , as the largest users who invest least , treat the landscape with respect , and those who own it and make their living from it with fairness . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it does seem reasonable to suggest that teachers need to be aware that when tackling many writing tasks pupils will achieve a greater degree of success , both as writers and as learners , if they can work in stages , and if within these stages they have sympathetic and informed support from both teachers and peers — not , I would insist , seeking to impose a preconceived notion of how to plan or how to write , but helping pupils to discover what works best for them . |
| 26 | It would superficially seem reasonable to accept 7.45 , but it should be noted that more of the highest third of pupils placed " pm " after the clock time than did pupils in other bands . |
| 27 | It might seem reasonable to propose that the features of spoken language outlined in the preceding section should be considered as features of utterances , and those features typical of written language as characteristic of sentences . |
| 28 | If a deviant sentence can be normalised by adjusting its grammatical structure — for instance , by changing the order or syntactic category of elements , or by adding , substituting or deleting one or more grammatical elements — then it would seem reasonable to suppose that its deviance is grammatical in nature . |
| 29 | It would seem reasonable , in general , that if a sequence of elements AB can be shown to be a semantic constituent , and one of the parts of the sequence satisfies the recurrent contrast criterion , then the status of semantic constituent should be accorded to the remaining part of the sequence , even if it does not satisfy the recurrent contrast criterion . |
| 30 | It would seem reasonable to adopt as a general principle that any two occurrences of a lexical form which represent two different grammatical elements should be regarded , ipso facto , as lexically distinct . |