Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] be argue " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a virus had begun to affect people who put crosses against Conservative candidates in general elections , I would presumably be arguing that this proved how immoral it was to vote Tory , but I hope nobody would believe me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And what of the deletion of / ? / in Belfast English , which can easily be argued to be phonetically motivated ? |
| 4 | Indeed it may even be argued that many more of Rolle 's English texts were written specifically for her . |
| 5 | It may also be argued that , provided a computer record is sympathetically laid out , it is more readable than many handwritten entries found in registers , where handwriting , variations in content and idiosyncrasies of style may conspire to confuse the reader . |
| 6 | It may also be argued that Roman military advances effectively changed the artistic map of Italy . |
| 7 | It may also be argued that , as this field is concerned with aspects of the student that are intimately connected with her personality , it would be unethical to attempt systematically to bring about changes . |
| 8 | It may also be argued that the user 's strategy adopted for subject searching is a response to the very design of the card dictionary catalogue . |
| 9 | However , it may also be argued more generally , following Max Weber ( 1921 , part III , chap . |
| 10 | It may also be argued that some limits to growth , which Hirsch ( 1977 ) called ‘ social limits ’ , are already operating . |
| 11 | It may also be argued that numbering an Information Memorandum shows an intent to control and restrict the circulation and therefore complies with Companies Act 's requirements for prospectuses and the provisions of the FSA . |
| 12 | It may also be argued that the negative correlation we have found between breath H 2 exretion and MCTT was due to the lactulose taken with the breakfast . |
| 13 | It may well be argued that the government was able to defeat the General Strike by its propaganda campaigns , the arrest of Communist activists , the use of volunteers and by sheer patience , in allowing the General Council 's Negotiating Committee to spend several futile days negotiating the Samuel Memorandum in the hope that it would provide a basis for a settlement . |
| 14 | These differential learning experiences ( and/or social influences which discriminate against girls in this respect ) , it may then be argued , also independently affect the learning of mathematics . |
| 15 | It might reasonably be argued that the single most inflammatory portrayal of Jesus anywhere is in D. H. Lawrence 's The Man Who Dies , published more than fifty years ago , a miniature masterpiece in which Jesus is depicted as having what used to be called ‘ sexual congress ’ with a priestess of Isis in an Egyptian temple . |
| 16 | Yet it might also be argued that the major political parties ensured that , despite the attention which Mosley attracted , the fascists were going to be marginalized . |
| 17 | It might also be argued that the mandatory life sentence makes a substantial contribution to public safety . |
| 18 | It might also be argued that the treatment of language in terms of sentences has been quite successful in revealing how language works , that within the sentence we can establish rules and constraints concerning what is and is not allowed , whereas beyond the sentence , such rules seem either to disintegrate or turn into rules of a different kind — social rules or psychological rules , which are not within the area of linguistic study at all . |
| 19 | It might also be argued that despite recent legislation ( some would say because of it ) parent-teacher relations are still too often fraught with fear , suspicion and misunderstanding ; that there is still too much teacher stereotyping of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ homes and parents ; and that many parents still lack power in relation to their parental rights and responsibilities . |
| 20 | From Wright Mills 's position that one does not need to demonstrate directly the existence of the shared ideology and shared objectives , it might also be argued that the corollary is also unnecessary ; that is , that the members ' awareness of the shared ideology is not a necessary condition either . |
| 21 | It might also be argued that this provision of free sterile needles might even encourage some drug users to experiment or continue with intravenous use . |
| 22 | It might also be argued that it functions as metonymy , in which some element closely associated with the prime function of the whole comes to stand in for it . |
| 23 | It might also be argued that the RPF provided de Gaulle with a means of influencing popular and political opinion on critical issues , particularly those relating to foreign affairs . |
| 24 | It might also be argued that as an activity and form of visual culture , it is class , gender and culturally specific . |
| 25 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 26 | The criminal law of England ( it might well be argued ) is shot through with inconsistencies and irrationalities , and , however a subjectivist may present it , exhibits a considerable amount of objective liability . |
| 27 | Of course , watching or half-watching a debate is not the same thing as taking part in one , and it might well be argued that level or style of participation does not demand enough of the individual citizen . |
| 28 | It might well be argued that a genuine contributor would be prepared to write or share his or her experiences without monetary reward . |
| 29 | It might well be argued that the USM , now containing some 900 companies with a market capitalisation of less than £50m , has long outlived it usefulness . |
| 30 | There was in fact retaliation in any case , and it might even be argued that this silence on the part of the radio — which everyone knew to be under government control — actually encouraged angry Luos to believe that a Kikuyu conspiracy existed within the Government . |