Example sentences of "it [modal v] be argued " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be argued that the King had a special responsibility to preserve the agreement , in that , in a country such as Britain without a codified constitution , there is no reference point , no pouvoir neutre , over and above the exigencies of party politics . |
| 2 | Despite the memorandum by Keynes referred to above , the foreign exchange aspect of overseas government expenditure was conspicuously absent from the debate in the Defence Committee from its beginnings in 1946 right through to August 1947 , by which time it may be argued that the damage had largely already been done . |
| 3 | Indeed , it may be argued that the success of Christianity in establishing the finality of the cross in dealing with sin ‘ once and for all ’ has removed from our minds its roots in the common experience of our lives . |
| 4 | It may be argued that sexuality has a certain uniqueness which is absent from much property : sexuality is an intrinsic part of one 's personality , it is a mode of expressing that personality in relation to others , and it is therefore fundamental that one should be able to choose whether to express oneself in this way — and , if so , towards and with whom . |
| 5 | These other offences do not cover all eventualities , and , moreover , it may be argued with some force that child sexual abuse at home ought to be labelled separately . |
| 6 | It may be argued that there is nothing too morally reprehensible about this in many areas of our public life : but when it affects life-and-death issues , such as Northern Ireland , the idea of making legislation on internment , for example , subject to back-room bargains struck at Westminster , is one which would stick in the throats of many voters . |
| 7 | The existence of a specialist team , it may be argued , provides a clearer opportunity for a specific model of service to be developed and implemented . |
| 8 | The problem of fume cupboards is a sensitive area and it may be argued that health and safety considerations are in conflict with energy efficiency . |
| 9 | It may be argued that this was not a new concept of the basic function of monarchy ; perhaps so . |
| 10 | The DES Further Education Unit 's report notes that events such as workshops , seminars and courses are the most common form of provision , although it may be argued that , overall , more learning takes place in other ways . |
| 11 | From the later Republic onwards there is no period of Roman history lacking fine portraits , and it may be argued that the lack of earlier survivals is merely due to chance . |
| 12 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |
| 13 | And it may be argued that centralist solutions are dangerous , not only because in any particular administration they may be used to bad effect , but because in principle they inhibit freedom . |
| 14 | It may be argued that to focus on social security is to overlook other sources of income in old age . |
| 15 | It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do . |
| 16 | It may be argued that the new designs of the assessments will avoid such obvious pitfalls . |
| 17 | From this , it may be argued that the presence of fold singularities in regions II and III appears to be a general feature of colliding plane wave problems . |
| 18 | It may be argued that because the affective domain deals with qualitative differences it can not be planned for in the same systematic way that is applied to knowledge , and that it is best dealt with by providing suitable models , and by discussion when problems and student needs arise . |
| 19 | It may be argued that many forms of ‘ fringe medicine ’ are not dependent upon any belief in any religion or ‘ god ’ . |
| 20 | It may be argued that therein lies evolutionary justification for the belief that some modified form of such living can suit humans . |
| 21 | As a result , there are very few materials which are inert in the body and indeed it may be argued that none are truly inert in this context . |
| 22 | It may be argued that in parliamentary democracies the people can protest every five years or so by casting their votes in the election of a new government . |
| 23 | It may be argued that the longer people search for jobs , the more satisfied they will be with their eventual choices . |
| 24 | Although it may be argued that the effectiveness of local social pressures not to take the crime to court declined as a consequence of colonial rule , this change was gradual , and therefore does not explain why the rate of criminal litigation was highest in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Although it may be argued that a meaningful measure of comprehensive income can not be provided unless a full system of current value accounting is employed , the introduction of the SCFW is likely to encourage the preparers of financial statements to move away from the historical cost system and to value relevant assets at current values . |
| 26 | Even if certain of the valuations are not as objective as historical cost valuations , it may be argued that an approximate current value is of more benefit to users of the financial statements than a zero valuation or a precise but irrelevant historical cost valuation . |
| 27 | This , it may be argued , would increase choice and independence for elderly people . |
| 28 | A Zeitgeist is all the more convincingly that , it may be argued , if it reveals itself simultaneously and without conspiracy or foreknowledge , but some of the cards in this pack look pretty wild . |
| 29 | It may be argued that they existed but had been forgotten . |
| 30 | Or it may be argued that the documents contained the forged additions , but Ralph was silent because he knew they were forgeries . |