Example sentences of "reasonable [to-vb] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not think it would be reasonable to pretend that the cost of paying people , recruiting them and retaining them is the same in the south-east as in other parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | The common duty of care is a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the visitor will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which he is invited or permitted by the occupier to be there . |
| 3 | The duty is in s. 2(2) of the Act : The common duty of care is a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the visitor will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which he is invited or permitted to be there . |
| 4 | the occupier of premises does not owe any such duty to a trespasser : he does not owe to the trespasser a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the trespasser will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which he is trespassing . |
| 5 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 6 | The consultation document contained no firm proposals on the franchising system although , given that 137 out of 167 pages referred to the present BR profit centres , it is reasonable to infer that the Government 's preferred set up would be based on profit centre related franchises . |
| 7 | When the find spots are plotted by king or tribal grouping it is reasonable to infer that the area of circulation of their coins , especially when these are of low value , reflects the territory of a king or tribe . |
| 8 | It follows that it is reasonable to assume that a unit of goodness can exist in the mind of man to aid him in understanding the origin of his God , just as the scientific unit aids human thought directed towards physical activity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The end of the coil is closed , and it seems reasonable to assume that the animal started growing as a coiled shell . |
| 12 | In addition , it seems reasonable to assume that the development will attain an occupancy rate much higher than that at present . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I think it is reasonable to assume that the arrow for computers is the same as that for humans . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is reasonable to assume that the storehouse is our local church . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is therefore reasonable to suggest that a staging system might be devised which is based upon the type and genetic changes associated with conventional tumour stage and , more importantly , with survival . |
| 21 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 22 | It seems much more reasonable to suggest that the speaker is indicating a readiness to be friendly and to talk . |
| 23 | Now it seems reasonable to suggest that the competence/performance distinction might also mark the division of responsibility between syllabus and methodology , with the former specifying the knowledge to be acquired and the latter providing conditions for its behavioural realization . |
| 24 | It would be reasonable to expect that the extension and development of community psychiatric services would lead to a reduction in the rate of suicide and attempted suicide , but there is little evidence that this is so . |
| 25 | Given that this same five-part texture is used for all the dances of this ballet , it seems reasonable to conclude that a string band must have formed the basis of the instrumental ensemble . |
| 26 | It is therefore reasonable to conclude that the existence of space-like singularities is likely to be a generic feature of colliding plane wave solutions . |
| 27 | Mr justifies abandoning the approach in and on the basis that the decision was arrived at in a different housing market , when it was reasonable to conclude that the plaintiff 's loss of interest on the capital employed would be exceeded by the increase in the value of the property . |
| 28 | But from this , and from table 4.8 , it is reasonable to conclude that the situation is in this respect less focused than in the inner city . |
| 29 | It seems reasonable to conclude that the situation described by economists as a " backward-sloping supply curve for labour " , meaning that contrary to expectations a higher price produces a decrease in labour offered , was less generally true in the mid eighteenth century than it had been earlier . |
| 30 | 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 . |