Example sentences of "[verb] reasonable [verb] [that] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It seemed reasonable to suppose that such benefits could be applied to other districts of the city without necessarily designating housing improvement schemes .
2 Though statistics are lacking , it seems reasonable to conjecture that these conditions foster child abuse and neglect , even infanticide .
3 For these reasons it seems reasonable to suggest that all lifeforms on Earth shared a common origin : there is little likelihood that it sprang up contemporaneously in several different parts of the globe .
4 But until this has actually proved to be possible — and Jakobson would have denied that it is — it seems reasonable to accept that both kinds of equivalence constitute a distinguishing feature , if not of all poetic language , at least of a great deal of it .
5 However , it seems reasonable to assume that pragmatic factors in comprehension will also be present in production .
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