Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] argued [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it may be argued that managers are more important than routine office staff since the latter are dependent on direction and organization from management . |
| 2 | It might be argued that children experience difficulties in the area of language development precisely because the normal developmental processes have broken down . |
| 3 | It might be argued that rivals would be aware of this possibility and therefore move in quickly , bearing initial losses in the same way as the initial company does . |
| 4 | However , of the three areas excluded from potential transfer to the Community , it might be argued that customs co-operation was already implicit in the concept of the customs union ( which has existed since 1968 ) . |
| 5 | Designer and architect are probably the most demanding of these skills , although it could be argued that artists and writers , beauty consultants , hairdressers and photographers also need them . |
| 6 | The human resources director of a large UK wines and spirits business also suggested that once total costs were taken into account , it could be argued that headhunters were not necessarily more expensive than using home-grown methods . |
| 7 | Moreover , it could be argued that prisoners are more at risk of further offences than probationers because of , first , their commission of relatively more serious offences , and second , their more extensive and therefore more entrenched criminal careers . |
| 8 | Although officially accorded little or no power , it could be argued that women 's culturally ambiguous position within Hebrew patriarchy resulted in a type of informal sub-structural power dynamic which in turn regenerated the culturally constructed fear of women necessary to patriarchal interests and explicit power concerns . |
| 9 | For it could be argued that women artists have a quite specific relationship and history to publicly sited works . |
| 10 | On this basis it could be argued that companies should indeed be regarded as purely private organisations , and that state intervention in their internal affairs constitutes an improper interference with the moral rights of the participants . |
| 11 | It could be argued that variations in economic and social circumstances are very largely responsible for shaping the visible patterns of support , but that these only occur because of an underlying sense of duty and responsibility towards relatives ; this operates independently of external circumstances . |
| 12 | It could be argued that defendants who might otherwise have been acquitted could be persuaded to plead guilty to lesser offences . |
| 13 | Because persuading people to be unpaid referees is difficult it could be argued that editors have to pass the comments on . |
| 14 | It could be argued that sharedealers were privileged . |
| 15 | Thus it could be argued that children only psychologize as a last resort when they do not have ready access to information about plausible causal mechanisms . |
| 16 | It could be argued that interviews with competent librarians and subject specialists in these fields , or even examination of the holdings lists of specialist libraries in these subjects , would have produced exactly the same journal lists as have been arrived at by co-citation analysis , at a much lower cost . |
| 17 | On the one hand it will be argued that organisations possess characteristics and pose problems that go beyond those of their individual members ; on the other hand , some people will take the view that only people , not systems , are capable of change . |
| 18 | Goldthorpe has argued that this justifies studying only male mobility , but it can be argued that women 's occupational position and chances are both important sociologically , and important to women and their families . |
| 19 | By placing such emphasis on social reaction it can be argued that Interactionists have minimised the role of the individual criminal . |
| 20 | Although some physical geographers such as Thomas ( 1980 p. v ) have argued that study of the energetics of the land surface ‘ has perhaps robbed the subject of some of its scope and depth ’ it can be argued that investigations of process energetics have provided some depth of understanding and have extended the scope towards recent temporal change ( p. 153 ) . |
| 21 | It can be argued that rates of interest may also influence the precautionary demand . |
| 22 | In one sense it can be argued that generalizations are of little use . |
| 23 | It can be argued that children need to be part of a mixed age school community from time to time , for that is the pattern of life . |
| 24 | It can be argued that decision-makers ' aims are often not to maximise profits ( or sales etc. ) but to achieve a satisfactory level ( of profits ) . |
| 25 | Of course , it can be argued that readers get the paper that they want or deserve . |
| 26 | The mock reality of fiction has its points of overlap with our model of the real world , and indeed it can be argued that readers will assume isomorphism between the two unless given indications to the contrary . |
| 27 | It can be argued that techniques of drone and repetition are particularly sympathetic to connotations having to do with ‘ collectivism ’ : they play down ‘ difference ’ , privilege the ‘ typical ’ . |