Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [be] argued that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be argued that low essential fatty acid intake could account for the diminished long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in severe disease . |
| 2 | It may be argued that regional industrial policy in the UK in the late twentieth century has aimed to maintain — some might say fossilize — the population distribution created on the coalfields in the early nineteenth century . |
| 3 | ‘ Thus it might be argued that loving , committed and trusting relationships between homosexual people . |
| 4 | It might be argued that other missing concepts in Pareto 's elite analysis are those of ‘ ideology ’ and ‘ organisation ’ . |
| 5 | Indeed , it might be argued that subsequent elite and pluralist theories are nineteenth- and twentieth-century reaction to this analysis . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It could be argued that centralized INSET has this character of necessity , and that the other possibilities can be achieved through school-based INSET . |
| 8 | It could be argued that selective forgetting of parasitic traces may have the opposite effect , on the memory system as a whole , of simply losing memories . |
| 9 | It could be argued that economic and organizational ‘ pressures ’ are qualitatively different from the sorts of constraints that governments or ‘ states ’ are able to impose . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Until the advent of man in physical geography it could be argued that physical geographers had escaped from the effects of human activity by concentrating their endeavours upon rural and unmodified spatial areas and upon time scales prior to the time when human activity began to exercise a significant influence . |
| 13 | Even in this regard however it could be argued that physical geography has not reacted sufficiently to undertake research on major global problems such as the increase of atmospheric CO 2 , the incidence of acid rain , the demise of the Amazon rainforest , the implications of world soil erosion , or the general field of environmental pollution . |
| 14 | It could be argued that local authorities , in particular , were caught in an intolerable position . |
| 15 | It could be argued that local authorities will gain immensely when the UDCs are eventually wound up . |
| 16 | It could be argued that different specimens could have different proportions of actively metabolising ( mucosa ) and inactive ( lamina propria ) tissue . |
| 17 | In some respects it could be argued that diminishing populations need not necessarily be unwelcome in the cities : renewal can take place at lower densities and much needed environmental improvements can take place . |
| 18 | It could be argued that home-school links is precisely the kind of issue where a generalized LEA policy is least appropriate , since the chemistry of relationships between each school 's staff and its parents is a unique and subtle matter , hardly conducive to centrally determined procedures . |
| 19 | Wax as a modelling medium does certainly have the advantage of making sharp and fine decoration possible , but it could be argued that fine clay , at the right degree of plasticity , is more useful . |
| 20 | Indeed , it can be argued that central government can draw upon and use ‘ superior intelligence and knowledge ’ ( Foster et al . , |
| 21 | It can be argued that forced labour has not ceased but merely changed its form . |
| 22 | In the second place , it can be argued that similar changes have taken place in the relationships between parents and children . |
| 23 | On the other hand , it can be argued that real believers are incapable of distancing themselves sufficiently to carry out an objective study of their own ( or perhaps even of someone else 's ) religion . |
| 24 | Secondly , even when attention is restricted to individual predictions , it can be argued that scientific theories , and hence universal statements , are inevitably involved in the estimation of the likelihood of a prediction being successful . |
| 25 | Yet it can be argued that large size and a high degree of industrial concentration of capital tend to assist the organisation of employers by making agreements between them easier to secure . |
| 26 | It can be argued that biological differences become biological inequalities when people define them as such . |
| 27 | Whilst it can be argued that physical regeneration , not job creation , was MDC 's original priority , the extension of the boundaries removes this premise . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There were several weak points in this critique and perhaps at the very least it can be argued that foreign films with social themes always appear to be more realistic merely because the subject-matter and personnel are new . |
| 30 | It can be argued that mass communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously , rather than imposed a massive and rigid uniformity . |