Preposition: in

• sense: What the theory does NOT assert is that any particular religious belief is rational in the sense of likely to be true.

• term: That which sounds rational in terms of national economics is, however, overturned by the business logic of individual employers.

Infinitive complement

• believe: Can it be shown to be reasonable or rational to believe in God?

• expect: Was it rational to expect that they would contradict all this by attacking us militarily?

• suppose: Is it rational to suppose that disorder generates order?

Modifies a noun

• explanation: There is a rational explanation: in some of these mutants, particular subsets of nerve cells are absent.

• being: An intensely rational being from an intensely rational reality.

• thought: All rational thought has been suspended in the institution.

• argument: Also, you say you are trying to have a rational argument on a board which attracts " irrational thinkers " .

• debate: In a rational debate this would not need to be said.

• thinking: It suspended rational thinking about the ultimate aim of national security: to ensure the survival of the nation.

Modifying Another Word

• boundedly: Consequently the firms ' decisions must be modeled as boundedly rational rules, but learning must also be integrated.

• economically: It is economically rational to encourage good managers into innovative sectors of the economy.

• perfectly: He seems perfectly rational, don't you agree?

• purely: Science, if it is to be based on a purely rational endeavor, cannot rely on non-natural explanations.

• supposedly: It analyzes the main reasons why supposedly rational, sophisticated organizations seem to dig enormous, disastrous holes for themselves.

• entirely: The 60 % of the electors of Liverpool Riverside who did not vote last time were entirely rational.

Used with adjective complement

• appear: Then it comes to appear rational to iron out all differences.

• seem: He seems perfectly rational, don't you agree?

• sound: That which sounds rational in terms of national economics is, however, overturned by the business logic of individual employers.