Example sentences of "has any validity " in BNC.

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1 Yet the question arises whether the ritual performed in the London flat has any validity .
2 It is actually questionable whether the locational analysis of Old English place-name elements has any validity for early Anglo-Saxon settlement patterns .
3 To develop a meaningful measure of readmission which has any validity as a measure of clinical care requires that the admission be unplanned , related to the index admission , and in some way avoidable .
4 If such was indeed the case , the assertion of later authors that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II , if it has any validity at all , would have to be interpreted as the elevation of an already existing semi-official or official post of no particular consequence , as , in effect , the transformation of the muftilik of Bursa into the Muftilik of the Ottoman lands .
5 If the rational expectations macroeconomic model summarized in equation ( 6.3 ) has any validity , one would expect , first of all , that the estimate of β t for each of the 18 countries would be positive and that the estimated value of would be between zero and one .
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