Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [be] argued that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It could be argued that centralized INSET has this character of necessity , and that the other possibilities can be achieved through school-based INSET . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It could be argued that local authorities , in particular , were caught in an intolerable position . |
| 10 | It could be argued that local authorities will gain immensely when the UDCs are eventually wound up . |
| 11 | It could be argued that different specimens could have different proportions of actively metabolising ( mucosa ) and inactive ( lamina propria ) tissue . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |