Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [be] argued that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be argued that the King had a special responsibility to preserve the agreement , in that , in a country such as Britain without a codified constitution , there is no reference point , no pouvoir neutre , over and above the exigencies of party politics . |
| 2 | Despite the memorandum by Keynes referred to above , the foreign exchange aspect of overseas government expenditure was conspicuously absent from the debate in the Defence Committee from its beginnings in 1946 right through to August 1947 , by which time it may be argued that the damage had largely already been done . |
| 3 | Indeed , it may be argued that the success of Christianity in establishing the finality of the cross in dealing with sin ‘ once and for all ’ has removed from our minds its roots in the common experience of our lives . |
| 4 | From the later Republic onwards there is no period of Roman history lacking fine portraits , and it may be argued that the lack of earlier survivals is merely due to chance . |
| 5 | It may be argued that the new designs of the assessments will avoid such obvious pitfalls . |
| 6 | From this , it may be argued that the presence of fold singularities in regions II and III appears to be a general feature of colliding plane wave problems . |
| 7 | It may be argued that the longer people search for jobs , the more satisfied they will be with their eventual choices . |
| 8 | Although it may be argued that the effectiveness of local social pressures not to take the crime to court declined as a consequence of colonial rule , this change was gradual , and therefore does not explain why the rate of criminal litigation was highest in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Or it may be argued that the documents contained the forged additions , but Ralph was silent because he knew they were forgeries . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it may be argued that the Catholic Church puts on greater pressure for sheer attendance than some other churches . |
| 11 | Indeed , it may be argued that the current wave of ethnic or mini-ethnic agitations is a response to the overwhelmingly non-national and non-nationalist principles of state formation in the greater part of the 20th-century world . |
| 12 | It may be argued that the effects of physical-care experiences , though obscured later on by subsequent events , do at least have an impact at the time , and that much of the variation in infant behaviour can be accounted for by differences in training practices . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the cost of providing an economic infrastructure was one which seemed to bear heavily upon the people and , as far as the rural communities were concerned , it may be argued that the French occupation brought little positive benefits . |
| 14 | Again , neither these comments nor what was described as the least desirable eventuality ‘ the establishment of a Communist-dominated , Moscow-oriented state in Indo-China ’ , seem inaccurate or unreasonable : although it may be argued that the inherent fault was to assume that this represented the limit of Ho 's power and appeal . |
| 15 | It may be argued that the use of premises as a disco or late-night entertainment venue , especially if such premises are in a residential area , may amount to a nuisance to adjoining occupiers . |
| 16 | On the contrary , it may be argued that the groups that flex their muscles most forcefully and publicly thereby demonstrate their relative weakness . |
| 17 | Of course , it may be argued that the Cash paid at the beginning of the year relates to the last quarter 's electricity for the old financial year and so this financial year includes four payments for electricity ; thus , the year 's payments do reflect the cost of electricity . |
| 18 | It may be argued that the results are likely to be sensitive to the assumptions of the model . |
| 19 | These external pressures have worked through to the universities , and it may be argued that the current problems universities face in regard to research funding in the earth sciences are the result of the rapid , uncontrolled increases in the 1970's . |
| 20 | Mr Harvey McGregor has said in McGregor on Damages , ( 15th ed Sweet & Maxwell 1988 , para 1588 ) : It may be argued that the benefit of a mother 's personal attention to a child 's upbringing , morals , education and psychology , which the services of a housekeeper , nurse or governess could never provide has , in the long run , a financial value for the child difficult as it is to assess . |
| 21 | In many cases the structure may also be capable of being assessed under TA 1988 , s739 although if there is a UK life tenant it may be argued that the income is not in reality paid to a person who is resident or domiciled outside the United Kindom within TA 1988 , s739 . |
| 22 | Indeed , it may be that it goes further , and effectively means that the seller has not undertaken to deliver the goods at all , so that it may be argued that the seller has undertaken no obligation and , prior to delivery , there is only a unilateral contract under which the buyer is committed to pay if the seller delivers . |
| 23 | It might be argued that the Algerians hardly present a severe test . |
| 24 | It might be argued that the National Curriculum is more of a challenge to thinking about time than about anything else . |
| 25 | though David Holbrook ( 1973 ) , for one , would not agree — are the Narnia books of C.S. Lewis , but it might be argued that the story told allegorically in The lion , the witch and the wardrobe was told much more successfully in The Bible . |
| 26 | It might be argued that the courts have a role to play in ensuring that groups which have been unfairly denied access to the policy-making arena or who have a genuine complaint about how that process was conducted , should be allowed to challenge the outcome of that process in the courts . |
| 27 | It might be argued that the actions were outside the express authority of the Council , for there could be no express authority to incur debts that could not be honoured . |
| 28 | It might be argued that the test procedure is thus shown to be at fault , since in all the above cases the first element can be shown to have a clear semantic function relative to the second element : in fact , it signals a sub-variety of the general category denoted by the second element . |
| 29 | Now it might be argued that the resultant sense of dog here is caused by contextual modulation of the general sense : dog can not in this context refer to females if logical consistency is to be preserved , which leaves only males as possible referents . |
| 30 | With respect to those casuals who worked for only one organisation , it might be argued that the actual employment relationship lasted longer than the individual assignment and that interruptions were the consequence of " a shortage of work " , but this would be difficult to sustain . |