Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] argued that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | If there are exclusively private events , in the sense that they are in principle , and not just empirically , inaccessible to more than one observer , it might be argued that such events could not be intelligibly claimed , let alone shown to be , subject to any laws , and this means that no rational explanatory model could be constructed for them . |
2 | With the move towards disintermediation , it could be argued that many banks are driven to taking on less credit-worthy customers , with associated increases in credit risk . |
3 | In primitive societies with small , self-sufficient units there was no differentiation between centre and periphery , and it could be argued that many peasants in Russia remained at this level of perception during NEP . |
4 | It could be argued that such questions are of little value as respondents may be unwilling to label themselves as being in poor health . |
5 | Given the distribution of older people throughout the different medical specialisms it could be argued that all doctors ( and nurses ) should receive some training in the main aspects of geriatric medicine , with its emphasis upon rehabilitation and the role of multi-disciplinary care and assessment . |
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7 | It could be argued that these provisions would justify allowing any person to challenge exercises of power A , but also applying a more restrictive standing rule ( perhaps something like ‘ special interest ’ ) to challenges to exercises of power B on the ground that Parliament had intended the government body in question to be the prime guardian of the public interest in the exercise of power B. |
8 | It could be argued that these groups were formed as much for sociability as for making money , being made up of friends or acquaintances , but at any event their reasons fell short of promoting definite artistic programmes . |
9 | It could be argued that these opinions would in any event have prevailed . |
10 | It could be argued that these criteria are too rigid . |
11 | It could be argued that these ideas were deliberately peddled in Dunrossness . |
12 | It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do . |
13 | It may be argued that many forms of ‘ fringe medicine ’ are not dependent upon any belief in any religion or ‘ god ’ . |
14 | It may be argued that some men , in the heat of the moment , may genuinely be mistaken . |
15 | It may be argued that these proposals amount to no more than state capitalism . |
16 | It will be argued that such factors may have had considerable influence on what are widely believed to have been exclusively ‘ political ’ decisions . |
17 | It can be argued that such schemes should be embodied in statutes so as to put their administration and the principles of compensation on a firm legal footing . |
18 | It can be argued that such mothers may not develop protective IgG antibodies and may continue to carry the same strain of group B streptococcus . |
19 | It can be argued that such tests are gender biased , both in their questions , which do not draw on social , female-oriented spheres of knowledge , and in their multiple choice format , which , by demanding a single answer from a set of often mutually exclusive possibilities , does not allow for women 's interactive , socially responsive way of solving problems . |
20 | It can be argued that many projects fall into this category , perhaps usefully called development engineering . |
21 | Although we have introduced the concept of a power culture from the work of Handy , it can be argued that all organisations are really concerned with power . |
22 | It can be argued that these offences may be no less traumatic for the victim than ‘ conventional ’ rape , and therefore that any attempt to classify sexual offences by reference to their seriousness should place these forms of sexual assault in the highest category . |
23 | It can be argued that these associations serve as shelters and nurseries for mites , which , in turn , eat herbivorous arthropods and pathogens , a general theory put forward by Lundstrom over a century ago . |
24 | There may be some sense of cohesion in the North-East , Yorkshire , Lancashire , or the South-West , but even if this sentiment is totally lacking in the rest of England , it can be argued that these areas would be better administered by a series of regional ministries . |
25 | It can be argued that these tests are a reliable indicator of performance when tested under controlled conditions . |