Example sentences of "argue [conj] if [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued that if a jury had the benefit of ‘ this further evidence ’ it ‘ might take a very different view ’ of Mrs Sutcliffe 's attitude to deals with the Press . |
| 2 | The CPRS paper argued that if the Government were serious about reducing public expenditure , the time had come to consider some radical solutions . |
| 3 | Green argued that if the principle were extended to all eight counties the RAC would be controlled by the LEAs with a mere three members representing the WEA and only three representing the Cambridge Board with Hickson and Pateman as the committee 's servicing officers . |
| 4 | The defendants argued that if the machine was securely fenced it would be unusable . |
| 5 | Moscovitch argued that if the subject uses a linguistic strategy , that is compares the names of two letters , then it should be more difficult for him to discriminate between acoustically ( e.g. I-Y ) than visually ( e.g. V-U ) similar letter pairs . |
| 6 | He argued that if the defendant had provided washing facilities he would not have caught the disease . |
| 7 | Counsel for the Crown argued that if the House of Lords so held this would mean that the foreign income of an accumulation trust administered in England and governed by English law to avoid taxation on overseas source income by the simple expedient of appointing one co-trustee resident abroad . |
| 8 | It is often argued that if a child learned how to recode unfamiliar letter strings — printed words not previously encountered — into a phonological form , this would permit reading to be parasitic on an already established ability to access the semantics of a word from its phonology . |
| 9 | It could be argued that if a reduction in the number of 18-year-old girls leaving school is the source of the problem , then increase the proportion of leavers coming into nursing and all will be well . |
| 10 | It will be argued that if a policeman is confronted by a situation in which he fears that violence will be directed towards him if he intervenes , or it is likely that there will be such violence , the offence is committed . |
| 11 | It could be argued that if a claim for damages is based on a claim that a governmental body has acted illegally in a public law sense , then the damages claim should be attached to an AJR and be saddled with the same procedural restrictions as would apply to an AJR . |
| 12 | It could be argued that if a connection with florid madness is to be revealed in biographical data this is most likely to be found in a conjunction among extreme cases : the very creative on whom most of the detailed accounts have concentrated . |
| 13 | Although this distinction has no basis in the text of the Convention , it was argued that if the person required to produce material or provide a deposition were a party subject to the in personam jurisdiction of the United States courts then the Convention did not offer any protection |
| 14 | Conversely it has been argued that if the composition of the House of Lords was altered , giving it more credibility , then its powers should correspondingly be increased . |
| 15 | It is sometimes argued that if the Earth , Venus and Mars were veneered by volatile-rich bodies subsequent to the main phase of accretion , then the inert gas graphs for the three planets in Figure 5.2 should lie roughly on top of each other . |
| 16 | Therefore the actual payments are similar in Cantal and Powys , though the effect of the Sheepmeat Regime in the UK gave the Powys hill farmer an extra £2.08 per ewe ( on 1.34 million sheep ) in 1982 , though it could be argued that if an upland farmer in the UK can make use of the Sheepmeat Regime and claims its payments plus HLCAs , his farm should not be in the LFA at all . |
| 17 | In any case , they argue that if a country really wants to build its own bomb it will do so . |
| 18 | Proponents argue that if the government keeps inflation to 2% or so , 8% debt is too expensive . |
| 19 | The argue that if the environment is to be properly safeguarded policies must be formulated which will encourage favourable ongoing management . |
| 20 | Critics argue that if the probe should explode on lift-off or veer off course and re-enter Earth 's atmosphere , the batteries could be pulverised , dispersing 260,000 curies of radioactive waste — more than half as much as has been released in all nuclear tests . |
| 21 | This is perhaps inevitable because in such cases it is not entirely illogical to argue that if the information was already publicly known why should anyone want to publish it or sell it ? |
| 22 | Some workers believe they can see through the ‘ emperor 's clothes ’ , arguing that if a fear of strangers is not actually an illusion , it is irredeemably elusive . |
| 23 | It is a bit like arguing that if the hypothesis that smoking causes lung cancer is to be believed , everybody who smokes must get cancer ; what is more nothing else ( such as asbestos ) can be admitted as having the same effect . |
| 24 | Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status . |
| 25 | Goldstein argues that if a patient is capable of consenting to ordinary therapy , and if both incarceration and experimental surgery are approved social practices , a person should not be denied the choice . |