Example sentences of "[be] argued to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most other weapons can not be considered to have characteristics that make their use illegal whatever the circumstances ; although some others perhaps do — for example , bacteriological weapons , which can equally be argued to be per se illegal . |
| 2 | Power is being exercised for an improper purpose ( to regulate unfurnished property ) and power is being used unreasonably ( £6,000 might be argued to be excessive ) . |
| 3 | But uneven development can be argued to be about more than patterns . |
| 4 | And what of the deletion of / ? / in Belfast English , which can easily be argued to be phonetically motivated ? |
| 5 | Water meters can be argued to be fair . |
| 6 | A more serious problem with Deffenbacher 's approach in terms of the ability to generalize the results to other settings is that his distinction between studies which did and did not successfully manipulate violence level or personal threat can be argued to be post hoc . |