reasonable assurance

collocation in English

meaningsofreasonableandassurance

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reasonable
adjective
uk
/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/us
/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/
based on or using good judgment and therefore fair ...
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assurance
noun
uk
/əˈʃɔː.rəns/us
/əˈʃʊr.əns/
a ...
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(Definition ofreasonableandassurancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For reasons detailed below, the letter can be dated to the final months of 1649 withreasonableassurance.
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Thus, letter 153 can be dated withreasonableassurance.
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What they sought was a modest but tangible amelioration in their civil affairs, with areasonableassurancethat further improvements would be forthcoming.
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Those inspections must be sufficiently intrusive to give areasonableassuranceto the inspecting country that cheating is likely to be revealed.
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I hope that this is a matter on which we can tonight expect areasonableassurance.
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On all that basis of opinion and of fact, we can withreasonableassuranceplot our course.
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How are we to havereasonableassurancethat bad tenants do not make full use of the opportunity provided?
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If we enter into any agreement, we must have somereasonableassurancethat that agreement will be carried out.
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Any institution such as the direct grant school must have areasonableassuranceof continuity over the years.
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Loans were offered essentially when there was areasonableassurancethat they could be repaid.
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Those required, first, an acceptance of the safety criteria and the concept ofreasonableassurance.
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Somereasonableassurancemust be given to this section of the industry that they will have continuity.
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We consider, in fact, that its reintroduction would be justified only if there were areasonableassurancethat it would reduce crime.
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That seems to me to be a perfectlyreasonableassurance.
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This prompts the question as to who is in a position to provide thisreasonableassurance.
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Obviously, it would be a waste of money to provide outfalls, and maintain them, without areasonableassurancethat advantage would be taken of them.
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I could name withreasonableassurancethe conditions and ingredients of a settlement.
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Since 1979 all aid and trade provision supported projects have been assessed to provide areasonableassuranceof the soundness of the investment.
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They must have areasonableassurancethat future legislation will not detract from the correctness of the decision as and when it is made.
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The test providesreasonableassuranceagainst the possibility that members of the public will be misled.
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