A traders' association writes: 'Shopkeepers on this street have asked for the parking ban to be lifted. It is true that the street becomes hard to walk along when vehicles stand on both sides. But the shops here sell heavy goods that customers cannot carry far, and takings have fallen by a third since the ban. The ban should therefore be lifted on one side of the street only.' The statement that the street becomes hard to walk along when vehicles stand on both sides functions in the passage as:

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a point the association grants against itself, which shapes the limited proposal it goes on to make. The association accepts that vehicles on both sides make walking difficult, and that acceptance is precisely why it asks for the ban to go on one side only rather than on both. The proposal at the end is the conclusion; the sentence is neither evidence that the ban is useless, which would contradict the concession, nor something the passage later denies, since the association never withdraws it.

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