Example sentences of "it could [be] argued [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For it could be argued that women artists have a quite specific relationship and history to publicly sited works . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It could be argued that defendants who might otherwise have been acquitted could be persuaded to plead guilty to lesser offences . |
| 9 | Because persuading people to be unpaid referees is difficult it could be argued that editors have to pass the comments on . |
| 10 | It could be argued that sharedealers were privileged . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |