Example sentences of "[pron] might be argued " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tate , so devoted to Eliot 's precedent , appears to have dismissed as amiably perfunctory the respect that Eliot , not quite consistently but repeatedly , accorded to Pound 's prose-writings and Pound 's literary opinions ; and — so it might be argued , though this is not the place for it — Tate 's own verse , and the verse of those he influenced , were the worse for having taken note of Eliot 's precedent without attending equally to Pound 's . |
| 2 | Even though it might be argued that a regular life-style implies a regular degree of fatigue and so will require a regular amount of sleep , in practice , such a degree of regularity is not achieved . |
| 3 | It might be argued that this device , although an ingenious reference to the converted barn 's former purpose , is not a practical feature in a dwelling because even double-glazing will not prevent the excessive heat loss and cold radiation caused by such large windows . |
| 4 | It might be argued that the Algerians hardly present a severe test . |
| 5 | It might be argued that historically the Maronite Christians have done much to bring this near calamity on themselves , that Gen Aoun is only the latest , probably the last , in a long line of revolts against an Arab and Mulsim environment to which this most stiff-necked of Arab minorities refuses to adapt itself . |
| 6 | There ought to be a right to protest in public , it might be argued , and where the bona fide exercise of this right happens to lead to some form of disorder , it is wrong to visit the perpetrators with severe sanctions . |
| 7 | Additionally it might be argued that with the almost instantaneous transmission of information we have these days , the impact of hearing about individuals or groups or communities of people dying is that much greater because we have less time to prepare for bad news . |
| 8 | Indeed , it might be argued that a fourth Conservative victory , unprecedented in this century , would throw the Labour Party into self-destruction and our democracy into imbalance . |
| 9 | There are complicating factors , of course In the depression of the thirties suicide rates for those out of work were at an all time high , but the suicide rate among the retired also increased It might be argued from this that economic uncertainty rather than unemployment per se is the cause . |
| 10 | The excess of these women in GP referrals , it might be argued , represents the excess of women with children seen in general practice ( Shepherd et al . , |
| 11 | But a ‘ drive towards truth ’ it might be argued , is surely an attitude the science teacher requires in the school laboratory . |
| 12 | Given that our primary concern is with perceptual learning it might be argued that this last process is what should command attention and that the processes involved in latent inhibition ( apart perhaps from the attentional change it involves ) are of marginal importance only . |
| 13 | Gibson 's ( 1969 ) account of these effects suggests that discrimination training may not be necessary but the same conclusion can be derived from more prosaic considerations — it might be argued , for instance , that the results described so far reflect no more than a disruption in control subjects confronted by novel stimuli at the start of the test discrimination . |
| 14 | A Bolshevik ( and , it might be argued , a Marxist ) ideology in which man 's mastery over nature is essential in the rapid development of the forces of production is central here . |
| 15 | It might be argued that despite their relative success at ‘ making out ’ in prison , long-firm fraudsters suffer far greater ‘ relative deprivation ’ than do other prisoners . |
| 16 | It might be argued that the National Curriculum is more of a challenge to thinking about time than about anything else . |
| 17 | I am not so bothered about losing the repeat in the Andante cantabile of K548 , although that to is a lovely work — it might be argued that at 12:44 , the London Fortepiano Trio 's performance of this movement is too much of a good thing ! |
| 18 | It might be argued therefore that library censorship is relatively unimportant . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It might be argued that there are works of literature that deal with these themes , and deal with them in a more thorough manner . |
| 21 | On the other hand , in the case of his daughter and the justification offered for taking her life , it might be argued that , similar acts of violence could be justified on the grounds that the ultimate goal is the redemption of souls . |
| 22 | It might be argued that in such situations it is the only course of action open to a man and that he would be at fault if he acted differently . |
| 23 | ‘ Thus it might be argued that loving , committed and trusting relationships between homosexual people . |
| 24 | It might be argued that for years Britain unsuccessfully attempted the ‘ Italian approach ’ , trying to establish an independent , strong domestic producer and that now an approach , in some respects similar to the ‘ Spanish approach ’ ( welcoming foreign investment ) is being adopted . |
| 25 | It might be argued that children experience difficulties in the area of language development precisely because the normal developmental processes have broken down . |
| 26 | In fact , it might be argued that because teaching techniques based on operant conditioning are derived from a scientific analysis of behaviour change , they offer , potentially , an approach which will be more effective than natural processes ( Kiernan 1981 ) . |
| 27 | Furthermore , because the child is provided with simplified situations which have been specifically designed to help the child understand what is required , it might be argued that elicitation procedures should provide an optimal measure of performance . |
| 28 | There , it might be argued , Merchiston Publishing , and our students , face the same dilemmas as many commercial publishers , particularly in the STM ( Science , Technology , Medicine ) field . |
| 29 | It might be argued that this function has been coopted by such purposive ( indeed , allegedly manipulative ) schemes as the Youth Training Scheme . |
| 30 | Less radical than the abolitionist , but perhaps more realistic , the reductionist seeks a minimalist prison system ( which it might be argued England , with a rate of 28 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants , was not far from at the time of Brockway 's article ) within which reasonably decent standards might be maintained . |