Example sentences of "[pron] could [be] argued that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to honesty , it could be argued that no system of regulation can ever deter the truly criminally minded from attempting to defraud the investing public . |
| 2 | Indeed it could be argued that a dynastic conflict involving the interests of the Houses of Orléans , Bourbon , Bonaparte and Hohenzollern was the means chosen to bring down the Empire , even if it was not really the cause . |
| 3 | Indeed it could be argued that a family crisis ( for example the suicide of a father ) is bound to have a long term effect upon the child . |
| 4 | Applying this principle to insider dealing , it could be argued that a company has the right to bring an action against an insider for any profit made by reason of the fact that he has ( i ) abused his fiduciary position by using unpublished price sensitive information which he acquired by virtue of his position as an insider ; or ( ii ) misappropriated corporate property ( it is essential under this head that unpublished price sensitive information be seen as property ; whether it is , is not entirely clear ) . |
| 5 | Similarly , it could be argued that a non-party to the Vienna Convention could not rely upon that Convention 's procedural requirements for the manifestation of consent . |
| 6 | In the first place it could be argued that a democratic government would not impose unreasonably on minorities ; this exposed the party to Liberal charges that they were indifferent to the Irish Nationalists , but it also exposed the weakness of the government 's position , as Law explained to the Commons in January 1913 : |
| 7 | For example , it could be argued that a boom and slump lasting in total from about 1790 to 1840 was initiated by the Industrial Revolution 's typical innovations ( cotton spinning and weaving ; new methods of iron production ; steam power ) ; that from the mid-1840s a new boom was generated by the development of railways which initiated a fifty-year cycle ; that from the 1890s a new boom and long cycle stemmed from electrification . |
| 8 | Thus it could be argued that a doctor is functionally more important than a nurse since his or her position carries with it many of the skills necessary to perform a nurse 's role but not vice versa . |
| 9 | It could be argued that a poorly performing ICU is unlikely to occur in isolation . |
| 10 | It could be argued that the myths of Ulster protestantism and the institution of the Orange order take the place of the more centralized clerical organization of Roman catholicism in providing some element of overall religious unity among protestant loyalists . |
| 11 | But it could be argued that the policy of spending on bases rather than on troops has paid off since Saudi Arabia has been able to accommodate , with astonishing ease , a multinational army 20 times the size of its own . |
| 12 | It could be argued that the surgeon could face both criminal and civil liability . |
| 13 | It could be argued that the propositions considered earlier as regards the patient so requesting would be applicable , since all that has changed is that the relevant legal decision-maker is the parent or guardian , so that the doctor would be absolved from his duty . |
| 14 | Firstly , many crimes do not have victims , and only the offender(s) will know that a crime has been committed — for example , illegal drug use and supply , soliciting by prostitutes or illegal abortion ( here we are talking about victims in the conventional sense of a separate and visible victim , although it could be argued that the user of illegal drugs is a victim him or herself , or that the unborn foetus is a victim in the case of illegal abortion ) . |
| 15 | Indeed , it could be argued that the collective influence of the processes discussed in this chapter have made a greater impact on the cities and those living within them than has inner-city policy . |
| 16 | I replied that it could be argued that the trust was due . |
| 17 | It could be argued that the best way of dealing with attempted suicide would be to prevent its occurrence in the first place ; but this is not an easy task , and one that often extends beyond the reach of the clinician . |
| 18 | In the first place it could be argued that the power of the professional association to act is severely limited , because much of the censorship that takes place in libraries is ultimately applied by Library Committees and local authorities whose members are beyond the control of the librarians ' professional body . |
| 19 | Or it could be argued that the abbots had been merciful : that they had allowed slaves to become serfs . |
| 20 | It could be argued that the ornithischians were a more varied group . |
| 21 | It could be argued that the west lost the golden opportunity to contribute to the peaceful solution of the Balkan crisis because it did not de-recognise Yugoslavia ( and , with it , outlaw the Yugoslav army ) , while recognising all the six former Yugoslav republics before the war started in earnest . |
| 22 | It could be argued that the false views of humanity perpetrated by the Enlightenment were partly offset by Methodism and the growth of pietism in the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | Eamonn Dalton , Chief City Engineer , ‘ said it could be argued that the Ovens claim was not based on objective evidence in that the samples said to have been taken at the dump had been handled , transmitted and analysed in all cases presumably by people with a particular interest in one aspect of the case . |
| 24 | One conclusion might be that it is possible to define different grades of appropriateness , in which case it could be argued that the word-of-mouth teaching of the lobon-gur solution was a more appropriate form of oral therapy technology than the distribution of an insufficient number of Oral Rehydration Salt packets via restricted outlets . |
| 25 | It could be argued that the use of any model is reductionist , resulting in a loss of information . |
| 26 | It could be argued that the long-running teachers ' dispute of 1984 — 87 has eroded and undermined this trust . |
| 27 | However , although Reynolds ' headhunting PR is effective enough in the USA , it could be argued that the firm has not achieved quite the same level of consistent quality as Spencer Stuart in all its overseas branches . |
| 28 | In fact , it could be argued that the only significant finding on association cortex , made using non-human animals up to 1950 , was the memory impairment in monkeys lacking frontal cortex described by Jacobson ( in Gross and Weiskrantz 1964 ) . |
| 29 | The Development Psychology Section lacks theoretical coherence , and it could be argued that the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section is restricted to a narrower area than the psychology of women . |
| 30 | Indeed it could be argued that the AHA , and the North East District within it , was simply an efficient administration carrying out orders from the top . |