Example sentences of "it would [verb] reasonable " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So it would seem reasonable to suggest that second language learners might proceed in a similar way ( cf. |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It would seem reasonable to suggest that it was this waking preoccupation of his that Qused his subconscious to produce the relevant dream . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The theoretical use is as follows : if there exists a syndrome such that every patient who exhibits symptom x also exhibits symptoms y and z , it would seem reasonable to try to explain this by developing a theory in which there exists a single processing system whose properties are such that , if the system were malfunctioning , all three symptoms x , y and z would automatically occur . |
| 15 | So far as adult education is concerned it would seem reasonable to expect some significant response to the women 's movement given the close association between adult education and popular political movements in the formative years , and also because women constitute the majority of students , in current adult education provision . |
| 16 | It would seem reasonable for the seller to stipulate that he will not guarantee the goods ' suitability for that purpose . |
| 17 | It would seem reasonable to assume from this , that the length of the chains in the sample must play a significant role in determining the resistance to flow and the effect of chain length on log η , measured at low shear rates to ensure Newtonian flow , is illustrated in figure 12.4 . |
| 18 | It would seem reasonable to assume that measures aimed at treating calculi in these patients may reduce the frequency of infection . |
| 19 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 20 | However , where the job was a very difficult one involving areas where it might be impossible to gain access even with scaffolding , and the reservation had been specifically drawn to the consumer 's attention , then it would seem reasonable to rely on the clause . |
| 21 | In the latter case , if there is a provision for the tenant to provide a substitute guarantor on the bankruptcy or liquidation of the original guarantor the landlord should not be too disadvantaged and it would seem reasonable to resist the stringent forfeiture provision . |
| 22 | If the new husband 's financial status is not acceptable to the mortgagee , so that the mortgagee is only prepared to agree to a conveyance of the property to the wife and new husband if the husband remains liable under the original mortgage , then it would seem reasonable for the husband to comply only with the terms of the court order or matrimonial agreement ( to which of course the new husband is not a party ) and not to convey/transfer to the wife and the new husband . |
| 23 | It would seem reasonable that , as a consequence of the game , as many as ten Scots ought to have featured prominently when the British Lions selectors held a preliminary meeting in Edinburgh yesterday . |