Example sentences of "but it could be [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it could be argued that the policy of spending on bases rather than on troops has paid off since Saudi Arabia has been able to accommodate , with astonishing ease , a multinational army 20 times the size of its own . |
| 2 | Wax as a modelling medium does certainly have the advantage of making sharp and fine decoration possible , but it could be argued that fine clay , at the right degree of plasticity , is more useful . |
| 3 | The bibliography is extensive with over a thousand entries , but it could be argued that it is a little haphazard . |
| 4 | Clearly , an LEA has an obligation in the words of a recent Audit Commission report ( Audit Commission 1989a ) to ‘ articulate a vision of what the education service is trying to achieve ’ and to ‘ support schools and help them to fulfil this vision ’ , but it could be argued that the most appropriate focus for such a vision , necessarily generalized because of the range of institutional contexts and pupil needs involved , should be on identifying broad goals and the kinds of learning which schools might seek to promote . |
| 5 | In theory , Parliament is the supreme legislative authority in the United Kingdom , but it could be argued that real power , as opposed to authority , is located elsewhere in the hands of the Cabinet or Prime Minister or leaders of industry . |
| 6 | He found an excessive weighting towards popularized science in the citations he studied , but it could be argued that his sample was too small , or was otherwise unrepresentative . |
| 7 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 8 | Responsibility lies with the SROs , but it could be argued that they have insufficient resources to carry out this role , and should merely be ombudsmen ( although there is also some doubt as to their ability to act in this limited capacity given their degree of underfunding ) . |
| 9 | Both sexes have need of the night , both have access to it , but it could be said that women represent that force more , and may sometimes be the means through which men make contact with it . |
| 10 | The argument just offered may gain agreement in principle , but it could be said that in practice it is unworkable . |
| 11 | Such a reliance on free capital enterprise is foreign to the present British scene ; but it could be suggested that without it , any community development is likely to fail . |