Example sentences of "it [vb mod] not be argue that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the agreement was on its face unduly restrictive having regard to : ( a ) its likely duration ; ( b ) the publishers ' right to assign copyright in songs which they had acquired in full under the agreement , so that it could not be argued that they would be unlikely to act oppressively and so damage their goodwill ; ( c ) the fact that the publishers were not bound to publish or promote the songwriter 's work if they chose not to do so , so that he might earn nothing , and his talents be sterilised , contrary to the public interest ; and ( d ) the absence of any provision entitling the songwriter to terminate the agreement . |
| 2 | Capetian claims to jurisdiction were therefore certainly experienced in Béarn and Bigorre after 1285 , but it can not be argued that either Gaston VII or Roger-Bernard III were willing instruments of French royal sovereignty . |
| 3 | Despite these strategies , applied in both depressed and prosperous Britain , it can not be argued that there is or ever has been a clearly defined national population-distribution policy in the UK . |
| 4 | For example , it can not be argued that poor women resorted to abortion because doctors withheld information about other birth control methods . |
| 5 | Will my hon. Friend further agree , on that important issue , that it can not be argued that there are no precedents of statutory instruments being subject to amendment ? |
| 6 | Fraud appears to have increased rather than decreased , and it can not be argued that this is merely a matter of greater success in detection , as many of the frauds only come to light when investors find that they are unable to obtain their funds ( or the directors of the institution are found to be in sunny climes abroad , with little intention of returning to the UK ) . |