Example sentences of "can be argued " in BNC.
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| 1 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 2 | It can be argued that its success with critics and failure ‘ at the box office ’ both stem from that fact . |
| 3 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 4 | And surely , it can be argued , the understanding of what is to be ordered and who is to be disciplined has long been defined and subject to the practical mastery of the controllers . |
| 5 | With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . |
| 6 | The merchant would make a profit , which can be argued to have no discernable social benefit for the society as a whole . |
| 7 | Of course , it can be argued that readers get the paper that they want or deserve . |
| 8 | Of course it can be argued that since he adopted the Liberal cause in the 1920s , he was practically at one with Liberalism , and that is all that matters . |
| 9 | It can be argued that the increase rather than the reduction in the need for aid is due to a series of weaknesses in its composition and nature . |
| 10 | It can be argued that these tests are a reliable indicator of performance when tested under controlled conditions . |
| 11 | If the point of distinguishing murder from manslaughter is to mark out the most heinous group of killings for the extra stigma of a murder conviction , it can be argued that the ‘ grievous bodily harm ’ rule draws the line too low . |
| 12 | It can be argued that these offences may be no less traumatic for the victim than ‘ conventional ’ rape , and therefore that any attempt to classify sexual offences by reference to their seriousness should place these forms of sexual assault in the highest category . |
| 13 | It can be argued that mass communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously , rather than imposed a massive and rigid uniformity . |
| 14 | It can be argued that Monsieur Guillotin was the true founder of democracy by eliminating class distinction in public executions . |
| 15 | It can be argued therefore that the restraints of Functionalism , if prepared with the genius of a Stravinsky , a Mondrian , a Nervi , a Lloyd Wright or a Corbusier permit magnificent freedom within each disciplined field . |
| 16 | It can be argued that American children are not always very intelligent or easy to teach , with catastrophically short attention spans , but one can see the beginnings of a sad muddle even in England , with the publication of a homosexual prayer book giving instructions for a ‘ coming out ’ liturgy next door to prayers for those who already suffer from the American disease . |
| 17 | It can be argued that he won the election not because of the Tory campaign but in spite of it . |
| 18 | It can be argued that forestry production in Europe must be increased considerably in the coming decades . |
| 19 | It can be argued that the art of the actor is but a sophisticated reflection of what occurs in all human action : a struggle between what is privately felt and symbolically controlled ( using ‘ symbolic ’ in the sense of the ‘ public language ’ of number , words , gesture and sound , etc. ) , a perpetual state of disequilibrium between personalising and objectifying . |
| 20 | On the other hand it can be argued that the sauropods like Brachiosaurus were so large , and with a relatively small surface area through which to cool compared with their enormous volume , that their cooling rate could have been slow enough to allow them to sustain more continuous activity than smaller , living reptiles . |
| 21 | It can be argued that the peasantry in LDCs today have revolutionary potential because their situation is so similar to that of the urban proletariat in Marx 's day . |
| 22 | But we do need a public forum in which the issues can be argued out without the sloganising that tends to characterise so many Parliamentary debates on complex issues . |
| 23 | Sometimes ‘ the multiple variants are , it can be argued , what the poem is about ’ . |
| 24 | Similarly it can be argued that if home helps or social workers request training from the CAB in aspects of new legislation , this can cement a positive relationship between the CAB and the local authority who will then see a service in action that is worth funding . |
| 25 | It can be argued that controls by Central Government are desirable to ensure that a uniform minimum standard of efficiency is obtained where the taxpayer at large is contributing through the national Exchequer to local services . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | By placing such emphasis on social reaction it can be argued that Interactionists have minimised the role of the individual criminal . |
| 28 | It can be argued that children need to be part of a mixed age school community from time to time , for that is the pattern of life . |
| 29 | It can be argued that a fairly radical Type II ‘ internal market ’ has already developed in the care of the elderly , where much provision is private but much of the funding is public . |
| 30 | However , it can be argued that the drive towards particular and explicit ends has actually limited what these partnerships could achieve . |