Example sentences of "be arguable whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to be an inferior method of identifying the question of the boundaries of permissible conduct , and it is arguable whether this requirement forms part of the criminal law . |
| 2 | While this would involve a significant number of companies and save their audit fee costs , it is arguable whether it would reduce the overall cost of regulation for small audit firms , since few practices would be able to deregister and eliminate their regulatory overheads . |
| 3 | It is arguable whether these routes are worthwhile , but it would be nice if everybody could judge this rather than some narrow-minded person not giving us the choice . |
| 4 | In fact it is arguable whether such dualistic conditions ever existed anyway : marginal groups which could not be assimilated into the category of the working class were merely relegated by Marx to the Lumpenproletariat . |
| 5 | It was held that there was a clear infringement of the Compaq trade mark , although it was accepted that it was arguable whether it should have been accepted for registration because of its phonetic similarity with " Compact " , an everyday word . |