Example sentences of "it [is] arguable that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's arguable that the industry has done itself more damage by its inflated claims than anything else , because they spared people like Rifkin into action . |
| 2 | These observations have a particular point since it is arguable that a study skills " tail " is in danger of wagging a library project " dog " in at least some schools , and in the work of the Inservice Panel . |
| 3 | This can not be divorced from the earlier points made about monitoring and evaluating the project , and it is arguable that a programme of long-term follow-up visits and meetings is necessary for this purpose . |
| 4 | It is arguable that a decline in the traditional role of the military nobility in war was presaged by the ever-greater use made of artillery , that most ‘ un-noble ’ and indiscriminate causer of death , which claimed among its victims several great noblemen , among them the Bastard of Bourbon , killed at Soisson in 1414 ; Thomas , earl of Salisbury ( ‘ a worthi werrioure amonge all Cristen men … slayne at the sege of Orliaunce with a Gonne ’ , as the author of the Brut reported the event ) ; John Talbot , earl of Shrewsbury , killed at Castillon in July 1453 ; and Jacques de Lalaing , ‘ le bon chevalier ’ , killed in the very same month at the siege of Poeke , near Ghent . |
| 5 | As a matter of law , it is arguable that a plaintiff who announces before his case that he will pass on any damages to charity is not entitled to anything except costs if he wins . |
| 6 | With hindsight it is arguable that the relationship between the panel , the coordinating committee and those in positions of authority for inservice provision in the county should have been much more precisely defined . |
| 7 | It is arguable that the performance measures based on portfolio performance , to which fund managers are currently held , do not provide an environment in which there would be any significant advantage for fund managers who had closer relations with auditors . |
| 8 | Although the Shorter Oxford Dictionary says that it means that the person has drunk ‘ intoxicating liquor to an extent which affects steady self-control , ’ it is arguable that the person must have taken intoxicating liquor to excess so that he has lost the power of self control . |
| 9 | It is arguable that the scale and pattern of grants might more reasonably have been based on the status quo in individual schools , to avoid an invidious distinction between the two " classes " of award . |
| 10 | Yet it is arguable that the child 's first experiments with what adults would regard as linguistic deceit are on a causal and behavioural par with the bird 's fraudulent warning cry . |
| 11 | Moreover , it is arguable that the initiation into a framework of related concepts , methods and values ( sometimes called a paradigm ) is essential before the intellectual processes of ( say ) geography are possible . |
| 12 | It is arguable that the promotion of such visits to schools with identifiable good practice , to include exchange visits to share expertise , would be a sound development in any future project-related inservice programme . |
| 13 | It is arguable that the provision does not apply to the transferor . |
| 14 | The Bank , however , does regularly review its list of banks who are eligible to have their bills rediscounted at the Bank of England and it is arguable that the credit risk of many UK corporates is lower than some of the banks on that list . |
| 15 | It is arguable that the success of the EMS provided a major stimulus in the formulation and subsequent ratification of the Single European Act . |
| 16 | It is arguable that the opportunity should have been taken to deal with this matter by way of criminal penalties . |
| 17 | It is arguable that the friction between locals and newcomers which has been a common feature of village life in recent years is only a temporary problem brought about by the dislocation of established social patterns which have been hard for the social life of the village to digest , and that once the newly arrived population has either taken over entirely or ‘ settled down ’ to a rural existence many of the initial problems will be reconciled . |
| 18 | It is arguable that the ratio decidendi of the case is limited solely to this principle , and can not be extended so as to include the neighbour principle . |
| 19 | It is arguable that the disappearance of grammar schools was a further factor in the weakening of the English synthesis , in addition to those I have discussed . |
| 20 | This is no semantic nicety ; rather , it is arguable that the distinction reveals something of their political specificities . |
| 21 | It is arguable that the reader may actually be confused rather than helped by the deviation from convention , precisely because she or he is expecting you to conform to the rules of punctuation . |
| 22 | It is arguable that the design of the system should be dictated by the optimal information flow , in which case the simplest approach would be to use these sources of knowledge in a serial fashion , with a uni-directional flow of information . |
| 23 | It is arguable that the application of conduct of business rules must be justified on the grounds of the general good , to which the above criteria will apply . |
| 24 | And it is arguable that the mine closures were a blessing , not the disaster which Susanna Rance seems to suggest . |
| 25 | But it is arguable that the soundness of statements about wider matters such as authorial style relies ultimately on the statements we can make about particular texts . |
| 26 | But it is arguable that the fishing licence money should be treated as a one-off bonanza , since there is no guarantee that it will continue . |
| 27 | It is arguable that the feeling of external imposition weakened commitment not just to the formal provisions of the new structure , but to the spirit within which these provisions are applied . |
| 28 | I think it is arguable that the fact that Channel 4 did do something different , and for much of this period has had almost half of its management structure female , actually led , inside the Channel , to a totally taken-for-granted different way of behaving and thinking about things , and a lack of poncing around , a lack of all these other structures and hierarchies . |