Example sentences of "can [adv] argue [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local inspectors , on the other hand , can rightly argue that this is their great strength . |
| 2 | ICI can not argue that the buyers of its assets would all be rogues , especially now that the party-time stockmarkets of the late 1980s have been sobered up by recession . |
| 3 | The learner can not argue that he was being correctly supervised by someone standing on the footpath or in radio contact with him etc . |
| 4 | Certainly , one can not argue that all computations carried out by animals must be effected symbolically . |
| 5 | The Labour party says that we can not argue that a single person should pay less than a family next door with several working adults . |
| 6 | If we accept that science is objective , then it is more difficult to challenge its practice in modern society ; the scientist can always argue that his work is morally neutral . |
| 7 | The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction . |
| 8 | For nobody , back at base , can now argue that I am failing to complete the contract with panache and style . |
| 9 | In fact , one can plausibly argue that the 1937 Mirror reader had just as much public affairs news as was available in 1927 . |
| 10 | He can then argue that once one has advanced beyond the superstition that all desire is for oneself having pleasure , one has no reason of principle for denying the apparent fact that some desire is directed at occurrences not involving oneself at all , but rather the welfare of others . |
| 11 | Using such stereotypes , one can then argue that the occult sciences of the Renaissance could contribute nothing to the new sciences of the seventeenth century . |