Example sentences of "[be] argue that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It will be argued that the decision to put something in other words is essentially a decision about style , a point which is , perhaps , anticipated by Burton-Roberts when he describes loose apposition as a rhetorical device . |
| 3 | Thirdly , it can be argued that the discretion creates unacceptable uncertainty and unpredictability in the law because it allows a person to be refused relief on unexpected and ill-defined grounds . |
| 4 | It could , however , be argued that the Watch Committee was acting in an executive or administrative capacity rather than judicially . |
| 5 | It can be argued that the requirement of obtaining leave is the price for the generous standing rule under Ord. 53 , and that for this reason the standing rule for hybrid judicial review actions not brought under Ord. 53 ( for which leave is not required ) should be stricter than that under Ord. 53 . |
| 6 | It could be argued that the requirement of regularity is unduly restrictive and reflects the rationale of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , namely , the additional duties imposed on suppliers should only fall on those who can , because of the regularity of their dealings , be expected to have some competence in relation to the goods supplied . |
| 7 | Second it can be argued that the relationship between community care plans and local authorities ' practice is not straightforward , but remains to be evaluated . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It can be argued that the increase rather than the reduction in the need for aid is due to a series of weaknesses in its composition and nature . |
| 13 | It could be argued that the increase in home ownership facilitates this tendency . |
| 14 | From Wright Mills 's position that one does not need to demonstrate directly the existence of the shared ideology and shared objectives , it might also be argued that the corollary is also unnecessary ; that is , that the members ' awareness of the shared ideology is not a necessary condition either . |
| 15 | It can be argued that the board of directors of a limited company is itself a ‘ committee ’ appointed by the shareholders , to the extent that it governs or administers ; |
| 16 | It can be argued that the art of the actor is but a sophisticated reflection of what occurs in all human action : a struggle between what is privately felt and symbolically controlled ( using ‘ symbolic ’ in the sense of the ‘ public language ’ of number , words , gesture and sound , etc. ) , a perpetual state of disequilibrium between personalising and objectifying . |
| 17 | However , it could equally be argued that the visibility of change and development in these schools was attributable to their lower starting thresholds . |
| 18 | When we look at the normalisation movement we can see that it has implications for professional approaches , but it will be argued that the concept itself has been open to more than one interpretation leading to differential impact on professional practice . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It can be argued that the peasantry in LDCs today have revolutionary potential because their situation is so similar to that of the urban proletariat in Marx 's day . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | It may also be argued that the user 's strategy adopted for subject searching is a response to the very design of the card dictionary catalogue . |
| 24 | However , it can be argued that the drive towards particular and explicit ends has actually limited what these partnerships could achieve . |
| 25 | In retrospect , it might be argued that the significance of the liquidity trap was over-emphasised . |
| 26 | While there are some aspects of the redraft where it might be argued that the law has not been accurately expressed , there is no doubt that both its language and typography suggest that there are considerable improvements which could be made to the present drafting and printing of statutes in the UK . |
| 27 | In a sustained way ( meaning in more than sporadic decisions ) , it can be argued that the court has been critical to national questions only twice . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it might be argued that the problem of particular identity , at least as far as perceptual things are concerned , presents no insoluble problems . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I replied that it could be argued that the trust was due . |