Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] be argued [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it has not been argued that the Secretary of State 's decision on the tariff could properly be challenged if he adopted the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice where this differed from that of the trial judge . |
| 2 | It has also been argued that the small mouths of the giants simply could not have downed enough food to support a warm-blooded metabolism , particularly plant food that needs a lot of processing before it becomes available as energy . |
| 3 | It has also been argued that the legal system enables the powerful to get away with exploiting other people without actually breaking the law . |
| 4 | However , it has also been argued that women are discriminated against by the agents of the law , just as they are in other areas of life . |
| 5 | It has also been argued that a reliance on external inspection alone removes from teachers the responsibility to evaluate their own work . |
| 6 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
| 7 | It has also been argued that changes in patterns of work may alter the balance of domestic work . |
| 8 | It has also been argued that green belts have been used as instruments of preservation rather than conservation , and that insufficient attention has been devoted to positive planning , and to provision for recreational use . |
| 9 | But it has also been argued that the proprietary view extends , in theory and in practice , to public limited companies . |
| 10 | It has also been argued that a lifting of the exemption could induce spiteful and malicious allegations by wives , particularly where divorce proceedings were involved . |
| 11 | It has also been argued that the halting of peasant movement in the Ukraine and the extension to it in 1783 of the poll-tax , which doomed the Ukrainian peasant to serf status , were inspired by a desire to end the privileged position enjoyed by many border areas of the empire , and to some extent by the need to increase revenue , rather than by the extension of serfdom as a matter of policy . |
| 12 | It has also been argued that the dividend payment represents tangible evidence of management 's expectations which should be based on superior knowledge to that of investors . |
| 13 | Although convection in the mantle has attracted considerable support as a likely cause of plate motion , it has also been argued that flow in the asthenosphere may simply be a consequence of the drag exerted by the movement of overlying plates . |
| 14 | It has also been argued that the highest diversity is found in elevated sites most protected from fluvial erosion . |
| 15 | It has just been argued that detailed financial and managerial controls need to be based on specific product and/or SBU categories . |
| 16 | It has just been argued that a thorough analysis of the market attractiveness and competitive strengths of an SBU ( possibly based upon a Porter analysis ) , should provide more insight into the future covariability of the SBU and total market returns . |
| 17 | It has thus been argued that the singularities and in regions II and III are essentially extensions of the singularity in region IV . |
| 18 | It has thus been argued that the general structure of all colliding plane wave solutions is as illustrated in Figure 8.6 with with the possible exception that , for some solutions , the curvature singularity in region IV is replaced by a Cauchy horizon . |
| 19 | And it has even been argued that the pragmatists simply ‘ extended Spencer to argue that , since all human activity could be interpreted as the outcome of the instinct for survival , so therefore could thinking be ’ . |
| 20 | Indeed , it has even been argued that the army 's own internal co-ordination , command and logistics were deficient . |
| 21 | It has already been argued that physics is constructed through a series of dualities in which physics is rated positively , and other disciplines , chiefly the arts , are rated negatively . |
| 22 | Yet it has already been argued that the marginal costs of the good will be a function of the number of people in the community , and therefore , relate to different numbers ( e.g. 100 , 200 , 300 residents in the community ) . |
| 23 | It has frequently been argued that temporary jobs , although possibly less desirable than permanent jobs , do provide a form of work for otherwise unemployed people and , furthermore , one that enhances their chances of subsequently obtaining permanent jobs ( Syrett , 1985 ) . |
| 24 | It has long been argued that this gives great advantage to the ruling party because of its ability to manipulate the economy for the desired results on election day . |
| 25 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 26 | However , it has long been argued whether , for countries wishing to moderate population growth through fertility reduction , it is more efficient to invest the available meagre resources in primary health care programmes that , through reducing infant and child mortality , may have a secondary effect on fertility or , to promote policies aimed at healthful childbearing patterns that will reduce fertility and also have an indirect beneficial impact on maternal and child health . |
| 27 | It has sometimes been argued that marine erosion is not active at present because raised beaches are still preserved on exposed parts of the coast , e.g. on Gower in South Wales and at Brighton . |
| 28 | The expenditure base defined above includes wealth transferred , but it has sometimes been argued that the base should include only consumption , which would be equivalent to entering only receipts net of transfers on the left-hand side of ( 9–2 ) , as one would if one treated the dynasty as an integrated unit . |
| 29 | It has often been argued that the House of Lords should be abolished and that we should have a unicameral system of Government . |
| 30 | It has often been argued that girls in single-sex schools are likely to have higher educational achievements than girls in mixed schools , and in particular that they are more likely to do well in scientific subjects ( e.g. Department of Education and Science 1980 ; Steedman 1980 ) . |