Example sentences of "be reasonable [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We considered that it would be reasonable to take peptic ulcer in people admitted after 1976 as a proxy for cimetidine use ( bearing in mind that cimetidine has only been available since then ) and to see if peptic ulcer was commoner in people with motor neurone disease than in others . |
| 2 | If governments acted to remove some of the existing constraints to economic growth in DRAs it would be reasonable to expect private investors to move in from outside to exploit the opportunities thus created . |
| 3 | In such cases it would be reasonable to expect positive responses from the medical attendant after 8 weeks . |
| 4 | To some extent , these sectoral preferences are related to ethno-religious lines of demarcation ( Boal and Poole 1976 ) ; certainly it is reasonable to view inner-city communities east and west of the river as each having a higher-status ethnic counterpart . |
| 5 | The extent to which isolation of N gonorrhoeae is indicative of risk of HIV-1 infection is debatable , but it is reasonable to regard rectal gonorrhoea as a marker for high risk homosexual behaviour . |