Example sentences of "[be] argued that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been argued that continuous agriculture could be maintained if a closed nutrient cycle could be achieved , the canopy not perforated so that leaching would be prevented and the forest floor would not deteriorate , and if nutrients were added to equal those exported as crops and the diversity of species maintained . |
| 2 | It has been argued that lower productivity countries such as the Southern European states , Ireland and the UK could suffer from the creation of the SEM . |
| 3 | It has been argued that romantic love is a relatively modern phenomenon , reserved in earlier times for the delight of troubadours and the illicit pleasures of the rich . |
| 4 | It has sometimes been argued that marine erosion is not active at present because raised beaches are still preserved on exposed parts of the coast , e.g. on Gower in South Wales and at Brighton . |
| 5 | It has been argued that this approach may delay treatment of a victim of obstructed airway or primary respiratory arrest . |
| 6 | ( 11.30 ) In Section 10.2 it has been argued that this solution must be considered to be unphysical on its own , but it may be included as a factor in more general solutions . |
| 7 | For some strange optical reason this makes it look bigger than it really is and it has been argued that this illusion would have the effect of making an attacking lion misjudge its leap , striking short of the true position of the prey . |
| 8 | It has been argued that this essay is vitiated by " bad faith " . |
| 9 | By the mid-1670s Peyton had become the leader of a republican group , ‘ Peyton 's Gang ’ , and it has been argued that this group had a hand in the murder of the JP Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey [ q.v. ] in 1678 , which provoked widespread belief in the bogus ‘ Popish Plot ’ . |
| 10 | It has been argued that judicial review should never be refused because of the existence of an alternative remedy if the applicant can establish a ground for judicial review . |
| 11 | In particular it has been argued that any body which has no power over financial matters is impotent as a check on the activities of government and that a new " upper chamber " should have some control over financial matters . |
| 12 | It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
| 13 | It has been argued that special attention should be focused upon the resilience and potential for recovery of the soil profile in view of the inputs induced by man ( Trudgill , 1977 , chapter 8 ) , and the importance of the problem is underlined by Toy ( 1982 ) in a review of accelerated erosion when he concludes that such erosion can be considered to be the pre-eminent environmental problem in the United States by virtue of its widespread occurrence and cumulative cost . |
| 14 | It has been argued that high house prices have prevented workers from moving to new jobs in the South East , leading to recruitment difficulties and increased costs for employers in the region . |
| 15 | It has been argued that British membership of the EEC imposes a legal not simply a political limitation on Parliament . |
| 16 | It has been argued that corporate efficiency in privatised industries has improved , not just by an exposure to market forces and an acceptance of the profit motive , but by the extra freedom given to managers . |
| 17 | Without relative truth to hold on to it could be argued that absolute Truth , which is a matter of faith , would be nothing but empty utopianism . |
| 18 | It can be argued that forced labour has not ceased but merely changed its form . |
| 19 | It could be argued that centralized INSET has this character of necessity , and that the other possibilities can be achieved through school-based INSET . |
| 20 | Indeed , it can be argued that central government can draw upon and use ‘ superior intelligence and knowledge ’ ( Foster et al . , |
| 21 | However , it can be argued that neither strategy has succeeded in making a significant enough difference in Third World women 's access to information and skills relevant to them and useful for contributing to development in their communities . |
| 22 | In theory , Parliament is the supreme legislative authority in the United Kingdom , but it could be argued that real power , as opposed to authority , is located elsewhere in the hands of the Cabinet or Prime Minister or leaders of industry . |
| 23 | It could be argued that inadequate finance and higher mortality rates among small firms is a reflection of the way market forces allocate scarce capital according to long-term growth potential . |
| 24 | It could be argued that one reason why the cities have lost so many jobs and contain so many unemployed is that they are over-represented by sectors of the economy that have declined nationally — the cities merely reflecting national trends . |
| 25 | It can also be argued that all pension and retirement benefits schemes should be fully subject to sex discrimination law . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Nor could it be argued that private property ensured an efficient allocation of resources since the market no longer resembled the model of perfect competition . |
| 29 | It can be argued that true liberalization of standing rules requires not only that applicants be accorded standing to represent interests which they share with many others ( the old test of ‘ genuine grievance ’ achieved that ) but also that standing be accorded to genuine representatives of interested persons even if the only interest of the representative is to further the interests of the represented . |
| 30 | 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 . |