Example sentences of "it could [adv] be argued that " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happens , the concrete evidence about marriage in the " 1910 sample " analysed in Chapter 6 ( those women in the trade in 1910 ) very largely relates to women who were aged about 18–28 during the Great War , and it could reasonably be argued that the war played such havoc with the marriage chances of this generation that it will have contained an unusually high proportion of women who never married . |
| 2 | It could even be argued that in the special circumstances of colonialism the judicial system was biased against mainstream groups in order to increase the state 's control over them , and that in fact the poor and marginal , as in all societies , committed most crime . |
| 3 | It could also be argued that Minton 's large figurative compositions exactly satisfied the Academy 's need to exemplify the continuing relevance of past traditions in modern terms . |
| 4 | It could also be argued that the power to tax should be assigned a value in a governmental balance sheet . |
| 5 | It could also be argued that the preparation and monitoring of cost targets for trades , work sections or individual sub-contractors should be treated as part of the management accounts . |
| 6 | And anyway , it could also be argued that it is the accounting system which is allowing this manipulation ( perhaps even inducing it ) and therefore the accounting system should be modified to prevent it . |
| 7 | It could also be argued that we did so despite any better understanding of the essential problem : how do we establish causal relationships between inputs , low-level outputs and ultimate outputs , reliably ? |
| 8 | It could also be argued that the increased maximal secretory capacity of smokers is the result of chronic vagal stimulation which enhances acid secretion . |
| 9 | It could also be argued that the costs involved in installing and maintaining a marginal costing system is less costly vis-a-vis full costing system . |
| 10 | It could also be argued that the doctor was not acting voluntarily . |
| 11 | It could also be argued that this would help to build up a body of men with substantial diplomatic experience from which the diplomats of the future might be drawn . |
| 12 | It could also be argued that he was the least successful to because the club fell to bottom of the league under his stewardship . |
| 13 | However , it could equally be argued that the visibility of change and development in these schools was attributable to their lower starting thresholds . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Indeed , it could well be argued that He alone truly fits the description ‘ God ’ . |
| 16 | It could well be argued that inasmuch as there is a relationship between the second person of the trinity and the male human being Jesus , God becomes relatively more anthropomorphized , so appearing more masculine . |
| 17 | It could well be argued that both " Balak " and " Aram " in line A are more specific or precise than their counterparts in line B , " the king of Moab " and " the Eastern Hills " , because they use proper names for identification . |
| 18 | It could well be argued that the committee under-played the ideological differences that exist between such approaches to the curriculum ( an issue we shall return to later ) . |
| 19 | Now it could well be argued that the very object of judicial scrutiny is to force the bureaucracy to consider a broader range of policy choices ; that the courts ' role is precisely to ‘ redress ’ the tendency of officials to adopt a very narrow bounded rationality which thereby forecloses policy choices . |
| 20 | In owing a duty of undivided loyalty , it could again be argued that the conglomerate is under a duty to take advantage of sources of information reasonably available which would be relevant to the client . |
| 21 | It could therefore be argued that as the districts were neither fully responsible nor fully accountable for the level of poll tax paid by their residents , electors would find it hard to make a judgement on the performance of their own authority based solely on that criterion . |
| 22 | It could therefore be argued that it was in the interests of the Soviet Union to see the Korean peninsula in the hands of a friendly regime and American-Japanese interests pushed out of the Asian continent . |
| 23 | It could therefore be argued that government policy has helped to push more businesses under . ’ |
| 24 | Moreover , distinctions should be pointed out even though in the opinion of the student they are not material , if it could conceivably be argued that they are material : of course the student should express his own opinion that they are not material . |
| 25 | It could hardly be argued that to place the power of veto in the hands of an individual or a minority is a democratic device , except perhaps in certain very unusual and specific circumstances . |
| 26 | It could now be argued that the unity of wartime should be carried on to deal with peacemaking , demobilization and economic reconstruction . |
| 27 | It could now be argued that , throughout the history of the earth , Nature had rewarded those who were able and energetic , and punished those who could not keep up with the race towards higher things . |
| 28 | However , it could still be argued that biological inequalities , no matter how small , provide the foundation upon which structures of social inequality are built . |
| 29 | It could then be argued that ventriloquy is a better metaphor for fiction than criticism , because in criticism there are object texts which are not voiceless . |
| 30 | It could certainly be argued that those values and attitudes — fairness , change without violence , deference for order — marked the discussions both preceding and following the 1944 Act . |