Example sentences of "it is [adj] argue " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neath were blamed and given that there were so many of them in the Welsh team it is impossible to argue against Neath , in the sense that the Neath style and philosophy were also Wales ' bearing some of the blame for the national decline . |
| 2 | Though one can question the exact proportion allocated to education , it is impossible to argue that a certain proportion should not be so allocated . |
| 3 | For OCS it is reasonable to argue that the higher frequency motion corresponds to the CO stretch and the lower frequency to the CS stretch , as the two terminal atoms have very different masses . |
| 4 | Thus , it is reasonable to argue , instead of trying to determine what class is by theoretical disputation , let us recognise that what we have here is a concept which probably indicates something significant about social behaviour , but precisely what that is is not clear . |
| 5 | Of course it is easy to argue now , with the benefit of hindsight , that Dennis was doomed anyway , but it did n't appear like that at the time . |
| 6 | Since all the schools follow the same teaching plan and since the content of the programme followed by children in the early years is less demanding academically than that followed by adolescents , it is easy to argue that teachers in the lower grades require less training . |
| 7 | It is easy to argue , invoking self-righteous precedents , that the lady who hurries to assist the injured animal or pedestrian in the street or who feeds the beggar on her doorstep , but who fails to get excited about suffering in general and shows a disinclination to contribute to Oxfam , is really not a good Samaritan ; that she is morally short-sighted in letting ‘ distance ’ be a factor , and that she should be equally concerned for suffering whenever and wherever . |
| 8 | Indeed , it is possible to argue that St Teresa 's mystical ecstasies are themselves something entirely new in the spiritual life of Europe … |
| 9 | It is possible to argue that , compared to the staff available to previous Peacetime premiers , today 's staff at Number 10 is actually smaller in relation to the greater burden of work . |
| 10 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |
| 11 | It is possible to argue that certain sections could , with advantage , have been expanded to stress the more chemical aspects of topics — eg the section of enzymes ‘ in reverse ’ ( why not refer to this as synthesis ? ) touches on an area of great value and which is increasingly used industrially . |
| 12 | It is possible to argue either that the community charge has failed its first test as a device to improve the accountability of local government or that it has not really been tested at all . |
| 13 | It notes that it is possible to argue that societies ' liquid assets are mostly fixed , mostly current or neither fixed nor current ! |
| 14 | However , although the effects on market share in the short term were certainly negligible , it is possible to argue , from a dynamic perspective , that the removal of Rowntree from the market place as an independent supplier eliminated a potentially powerful long-term competitor in world markets for the Swiss firms . |
| 15 | Just as schools have been accused of creating pupils with learning difficulties , it is possible to argue that schools create disruptive pupils . |
| 16 | It is possible to argue that the research of Rowe and Lambert was influential for the growth of an ideology about the supremacy of the family as the basis for alternative public care of children and young people . |
| 17 | It is possible to argue that there is , in principle , nothing more to understand , because the ‘ subjective meaning ’ of an action consists in conformity to the governing rules . |
| 18 | After all , it is possible to argue that the most influential magicians in Catholic countries were the clergy . |
| 19 | Further , it is possible to argue , as Millett ( 1983 ) has done , that because science and technology are instrumental in maintaining male dominance , women are deliberately excluded from them . |
| 20 | In 16 , however ( and perhaps in 15 , too ) , it is possible to argue not only that the two sentences can be used to make identical statements , but more specifically that horse and mare make effectively the same semantic contribution to their respective sentences . |
| 21 | It is possible to argue that the SR compatibility effect is in some sense due to the nature of the anatomical pathways involved . |
| 22 | It is possible to argue against Moscovitch on various grounds ( see Selnes , 1974 ; Ulrich , 1978 ) and his theory is certainly difficult to test experimentally . |
| 23 | As against this , it is possible to argue that corporate power , as exercised by management , is still ultimately rooted in , and hence legitimated by , property rights , on the ground that the structure that gives rise to it is created with the consent of the shareholders . |
| 24 | It is possible to argue that the single occurrence of they in the data with a singular verb is accidental ( a ‘ performance error ’ ) but equally possible to claim that the non-occurrence of you , we and these with a singular verb is the consequence of an accidental gap in the corpus ; the line of reasoning characteristic of generative grammar is of little help to us here in choosing between these alternatives . |
| 25 | Indeed , it is possible to argue with Taylor and Walton 's own definition : ‘ rule- breaking which takes the form of conscious action or inaction directed towards mutilation or destruction of the work environment ’ . |
| 26 | Moreover , as we saw earlier , it is possible to argue that to pay for a service produces an equal exchange relationship . |
| 27 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 28 | Indeed , it is possible to argue that in both the fields of child language and acquired disorders the earliest studies to be carried out were almost exclusively concerned with production . |
| 29 | It is possible to argue these additions to the ending still leave a degree of irresolution between substance and structure open . |
| 30 | Through them , it is possible to argue , as Foucault concluded from the design of the Panopticon , a whole type of society may emerge , a society based on the protection of sectional interests through subtle coercion , whose technology is used to preempt what people can and can not do in buildings that they use or occupy . |