Example sentences of "it [vb -s] be argued [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been argued that the Famine led to a long-term levelling process amongst the afflicted peasantry , thus keeping the ‘ kulak ’ at bay in the stricken areas . |
| 2 | Sometimes it has been argued that the evolution was the other way round ; and more recently still it has been argued that no evolution in either direction took place . |
| 3 | Indeed , it has been argued that the government is the most likely source of excess demand inflation : through its policy measures , it can finance its own spending by raising taxes , by borrowing or by printing money . |
| 4 | This seems surprising since it has been argued that the existence of joint auditors may have facilitated the BCCI fraud . |
| 5 | It has been argued that the primitive features are innate , and the tendency to make binary oppositions is natural to human cognition . |
| 6 | Transient deterioration in neuropsychological function has been shown convincingly during short periods of experimental hyperphenylalaninaemia , and it has been argued that the changes may be due to neurotransmitter deficiency . |
| 7 | It has been argued that the best predictor of behaviour is not the possession of knowledge per se but behavioural intentions which are themselves predicted by attitudes and the subjective norm for the acceptability of the behaviour in question . |
| 8 | It has been argued that the Conservative government has in its policy changes ( if not publicly voiced ) moved towards a more Keynesian stance . |
| 9 | On the other hand , it has been argued that the burning of genealogies to which Julius Africanus refers was perpetrated not by Herod , but by the Romans after the revolt of A.D. 66 . |
| 10 | It has been argued that the present day focus of international law is upon disputes relating to parties ' interests in satisfying needs , and values , rather than upon formalistic attention to rights . |
| 11 | It has been argued that the ‘ package deal ’ nature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea further strengthens the argument against its selective application . |
| 12 | It has been argued that the North Atlantic Treaty , for example , is not a legally binding agreement and that such political treaties form a distinct category of ‘ soft law ’ . |
| 13 | It has been argued that the rationale of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties , Articles 7455 and 46456 should be applied to the institutional context for the protection of third parties . |
| 14 | It has been argued that the limited success of children in referential communication tasks is due to a large extent to the tasks being extracted from a meaningful framework . |
| 15 | More recently , however , it has been argued that the differences in Hebrew style which are used to define the pentateuchal sources have no significance in the light of ancient literary conventions , and that a fresh approach to this aspect of the criticism of the Pentateuch is required . |
| 16 | It has been argued that the ultimate object of most conventions is that the rules of government should accord with the wishes of the majority . |
| 17 | It has been argued that the present procedure for the passage of legislation does not provide effective scrutiny , that Parliament simply legitimises that which the Government has decreed . |
| 18 | It has been argued that the safeguards are inadequate . |
| 19 | It has been argued that the present law pays too great a regard to the need to preserve public order and does too little to facilitate peaceful protest , e.g. wide police powers to impose conditions to preserve the peace ; the restrictions on spontaneous demonstrations . |
| 20 | It has been argued that the mass production element of Fordism was never as strongly developed in the UK as in , for instance , the United States . |
| 21 | In this chapter it has been argued that the uncertainty map can be of great help in managing such a portfolio . |
| 22 | It has been argued that the artefact may perhaps best be understood as playing a series of bridging roles . |
| 23 | It has been argued that the jobs thereby created do not fit the aspirations of local residents and also perpetuate low incomes , since low wages may have been the initial attraction to employers . |
| 24 | It has been argued that the communist utopia is not a scientific prediction but merely a projection of the ‘ wish-images ’ of those who adopt a Marxist position . |
| 25 | It has been argued that the higher professionals primarily serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful . |
| 26 | It has been argued that the liberals ' respect for property precluded any satisfaction of land-hungry labourers ( some of whom had seized land in the troubles , a process of which we know nothing ) , and that the abolition of the guilds — again the programme of the eighteenth-century economists — worsened the condition of the small artisan . |
| 27 | It has been argued that the mechanism of synaptic reinforcement at work here follows a rule that the psychologist Donald Hebb proposed forty years ago as the neuronal basis of memory : when an input pattern is successful in making a neuron fire , then the synapses that took part in making it fire are strengthened . |
| 28 | On such grounds it has been argued that the novel is not authentic communication , notably by the Marxist critic Walter Benjamin . |
| 29 | It has been argued that the confiscation of literary proceeds is not directly analogous to , for example , killing a person for the life insurance , for the benefit derives directly from the literary activity , and only indirectly from the offence . |
| 30 | It is questionable , however , whether the provisions actually add to a victim 's opportunity for compensation and it has been argued that the procedure differs little from that required for any civil action except that the funds are preserved . |