Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] argued that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happens , the concrete evidence about marriage in the " 1910 sample " analysed in Chapter 6 ( those women in the trade in 1910 ) very largely relates to women who were aged about 18–28 during the Great War , and it could reasonably be argued that the war played such havoc with the marriage chances of this generation that it will have contained an unusually high proportion of women who never married . |
| 2 | It could also be argued that the power to tax should be assigned a value in a governmental balance sheet . |
| 3 | It could also be argued that the preparation and monitoring of cost targets for trades , work sections or individual sub-contractors should be treated as part of the management accounts . |
| 4 | It could also be argued that the increased maximal secretory capacity of smokers is the result of chronic vagal stimulation which enhances acid secretion . |
| 5 | It could also be argued that the costs involved in installing and maintaining a marginal costing system is less costly vis-a-vis full costing system . |
| 6 | It could also be argued that the doctor was not acting voluntarily . |
| 7 | It could now be argued that the unity of wartime should be carried on to deal with peacemaking , demobilization and economic reconstruction . |
| 8 | It could well be argued that the committee under-played the ideological differences that exist between such approaches to the curriculum ( an issue we shall return to later ) . |
| 9 | Now it could well be argued that the very object of judicial scrutiny is to force the bureaucracy to consider a broader range of policy choices ; that the courts ' role is precisely to ‘ redress ’ the tendency of officials to adopt a very narrow bounded rationality which thereby forecloses policy choices . |
| 10 | However , it could equally be argued that the visibility of change and development in these schools was attributable to their lower starting thresholds . |
| 11 | In owing a duty of undivided loyalty , it could again be argued that the conglomerate is under a duty to take advantage of sources of information reasonably available which would be relevant to the client . |
| 12 | However , we should point out that decided cases relative to the question all turn on the individual facts , and it could certainly be argued that the tenancy was not a partnership asset … ’ |