Example sentences of "but it can be [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The justice meted out in children 's games ( like that on the screen ) may be rough and ready , but it can be argued that ‘ violent play ’ is by no means all negative . |
| 2 | It still represents a cost to the Exchequer and a loss of potential output , but it can be argued that it is not particularly distressing to the people concerned and , for the economy as a whole , it may actually result in a more efficient use of labour : this is because high short-run unemployment may be a reflection of greater mobility of labour between jobs and areas and consequently may result in the labour force being more suitably and productively employed . |
| 3 | But it can be argued that this will not give a quick cash flow fix at present due to the difficulty of disposing of a lease . |
| 4 | Their own proposals for reform are aimed at restructuring the British press but it can be argued that even they fail to come to grips with the sort of major ‘ shortcomings ’ of the press ( and media ) identified above . |
| 5 | Goldthorpe has argued that this justifies studying only male mobility , but it can be argued that women 's occupational position and chances are both important sociologically , and important to women and their families . |
| 6 | The introduction of life peerages was partly designed to broaden the base of membership but it can be argued that life peers have not made as large a contribution to the work of the House as had been hoped . |
| 7 | McLuhan lambasted the print media for encouraging linear thinking , but it can be argued that this way of thought brought to mankind very substantial benefits which one is not confident would be matched by the uncriticized new tribalism . |
| 8 | They are good educative examples of the search process , but it can be argued that they have little to do with practical intelligence . |
| 9 | But it can be argued that we should not view rights in this way , and that when their use has adverse effects on third parties , rights should not be treated as signifying a moral entitlement in the right-holder to bring about those effects . |
| 10 | But it can be argued that marketing has a significant role within any social work agency . |
| 11 | But it is , I I think automatically the mother 's name is given to the child , but it can be decided that the child takes the father 's name . |
| 12 | These verbs are very similar in sense , but it can be maintained that they are not quite synonyms , because shut focuses on the completion of the event , and so suggests an abrupt momentariness which chimes with click.6 In [ 9 ] , the separation of the " shutting " and " clicking " in two clauses means that they are conceived of as separate , though simultaneous events . |
| 13 | But it can be seen that , while occupational and income motives are dominant in the Welsh borderland , employment reasons are less important in the Herefordshire survey . |
| 14 | Mention has already been made of the significance of national trends in age structure , but it can be seen that these effects can be substantially reinforced at the regional and local level through migration . |
| 15 | But it can be assumed that many millions of poor rural women are caught in a vicious cycle : they eat food to get human energy , and then spend all this energy in producing food and collecting the energy needed to cook it . |
| 16 | Not only do numbers diminish with distance , but it can be shown that there is a statistical over-selection of spouses who live close and corresponding under-selection of those who live far away . |
| 17 | ( This is actually the measurable one-dimensional spectrum , but it can be shown that if this is proportional to , then so is the energy spectrum . ) |
| 18 | Similes may be dangerous , but it can be suggested that the man who produces a well-made brick makes a better contribution to housing than does the man who builds a large mansion on insecure foundations . |
| 19 | How far this development in Pissarro 's art depended upon the example of Monet is uncertain but it can be remembered that , after initial scepticism , he commented favourably upon the ‘ Haystacks ’ series and found himself in Rouen in the spring of 1896 , several months after Monet 's canvases of the Cathedral had been exhibited at Durand-Ruel 's gallery . |