Example sentences of "[adv] [be] argue [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , in light of the obligations of Article 102 of the United Nations Charter , it could perhaps be argued that each member State has constructive notice of the treaty obligations of all other members and therefore must be deemed to have notice of any restrictions upon treaty-making power . |
| 2 | In this way it can perhaps be argued that the underlying rationale for the existence of the Eurocurrency market has been somewhat undermined , hence the classification by the BIS statistics to encompass the whole International Banking Market , of which the Euromarket is a part . |
| 3 | It can thus be argued that Russia and Prussia have in the eighteenth century a very important and interesting administrative history but little real political , still less constitutional , history . |
| 4 | But could it not be argued that the RSPCA , and others who carry out such a praiseworthy activity , are interfering with the natural selection process ? |
| 5 | ‘ … [ I ] t can not be argued that violence exists solely as a cultural phenomenon … violence is almost certainly embedded in the natural world ’ ( 1982 : 54 ) . |
| 6 | Capetian claims to jurisdiction were therefore certainly experienced in Béarn and Bigorre after 1285 , but it can not be argued that either Gaston VII or Roger-Bernard III were willing instruments of French royal sovereignty . |
| 7 | Despite these strategies , applied in both depressed and prosperous Britain , it can not be argued that there is or ever has been a clearly defined national population-distribution policy in the UK . |
| 8 | Since it is generally agreed that intelligence has a genetic component , can it not be argued that social inequality has a biological basis ? |
| 9 | For example , it can not be argued that poor women resorted to abortion because doctors withheld information about other birth control methods . |
| 10 | It certainly can not be argued that the ‘ development plan position will have been clarified ’ or that the Review ( or the Draft ) ‘ will be complete and offer good guidelines as to the issues to be tackled and the Council 's attitude to them ’ . |
| 11 | Will my hon. Friend further agree , on that important issue , that it can not be argued that there are no precedents of statutory instruments being subject to amendment ? |
| 12 | He said that the agreement was on its face unduly restrictive having regard to : ( a ) its likely duration ; ( b ) the publishers ' right to assign copyright in songs which they had acquired in full under the agreement , so that it could not be argued that they would be unlikely to act oppressively and so damage their goodwill ; ( c ) the fact that the publishers were not bound to publish or promote the songwriter 's work if they chose not to do so , so that he might earn nothing , and his talents be sterilised , contrary to the public interest ; and ( d ) the absence of any provision entitling the songwriter to terminate the agreement . |
| 13 | Fraud appears to have increased rather than decreased , and it can not be argued that this is merely a matter of greater success in detection , as many of the frauds only come to light when investors find that they are unable to obtain their funds ( or the directors of the institution are found to be in sunny climes abroad , with little intention of returning to the UK ) . |
| 14 | This would be particularly relevant in a management buy-out where it can easily be argued that management has as much knowledge of the business as the vendor . |
| 15 | However , as is indicated elsewhere in this chapter and in Chapter 6 , it can still be argued that private ownership of the means of production is the basis of economic power and wealth , and that the labour market is still the prime determinant of wage levels . |
| 16 | However , it could still be argued that biological inequalities , no matter how small , provide the foundation upon which structures of social inequality are built . |
| 17 | Fifthly , even if there are undisputed economies of scale so that there is a net increase in surplus , it can still be argued that there is a social opportunity loss . |
| 18 | It can further be argued that the principal objects , or targets , of the new legislation were not only women , but also children . |
| 19 | It will further be argued that initial teacher training can not be treated as separate from other areas of teacher education and that changes in any one sector will inevitably influence all teacher education provision , initial , probation support and in-service and that in the light of this interdependence , strategies should be established for a coordinated response across the spectrum of teacher education provision . |
| 20 | Moreover , distinctions should be pointed out even though in the opinion of the student they are not material , if it could conceivably be argued that they are material : of course the student should express his own opinion that they are not material . |
| 21 | It could hardly be argued that to place the power of veto in the hands of an individual or a minority is a democratic device , except perhaps in certain very unusual and specific circumstances . |
| 22 | But it can hardly be argued that either carbonate or coal measure deposition is going on around the world today in anything like the way it has in the past . |
| 23 | Thus it can hardly be argued that the LEA had not taken steps to facilitate improvements in the school . |
| 24 | It might reasonably be argued that the single most inflammatory portrayal of Jesus anywhere is in D. H. Lawrence 's The Man Who Dies , published more than fifty years ago , a miniature masterpiece in which Jesus is depicted as having what used to be called ‘ sexual congress ’ with a priestess of Isis in an Egyptian temple . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It can also be argued that the economists ' justification for aid has never been its real rationale , but that political considerations of strategic security by the donors have conditioned its distribution and nature , in some cases even allowing military support to be classified as aid . |
| 27 | It may also be argued that , provided a computer record is sympathetically laid out , it is more readable than many handwritten entries found in registers , where handwriting , variations in content and idiosyncrasies of style may conspire to confuse the reader . |
| 28 | Yet it might also be argued that the major political parties ensured that , despite the attention which Mosley attracted , the fascists were going to be marginalized . |
| 29 | It might also be argued that the mandatory life sentence makes a substantial contribution to public safety . |
| 30 | It may also be argued that Roman military advances effectively changed the artistic map of Italy . |