Example sentences of "it be argue that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor could it be argued that private property ensured an efficient allocation of resources since the market no longer resembled the model of perfect competition . |
| 2 | Either it 's argued that British life does n't show up well in front of a film camera , or that British filmmakers are n't capable of using that camera to probe behind the surface of things . |
| 3 | It is argued that specific policies implemented at the outset of British rule led to the development of a judicial system which did not coincide with either British or indigenous notions of justice but which was none the less compatible with local culture . |
| 4 | First , it is argued that mental events are a fact of life and , therefore , a legitimate object of psychological enquiry . |
| 5 | However , it is argued that new inequalities would arise between patients with the resources and knowledge to seek care outside their district and patients without such resources and/or knowledge . |
| 6 | It is argued that political programmes have to be worked out by actors within the state , rather than emerging automatically from the ‘ needs ’ of the economic system . |
| 7 | It is argued that private sector firms are too risk-averse and too concerned with short-term profits . |
| 8 | Namely , it is argued that small enterprises tend to be less unionized and therefore characterised by competitively-set. flexible wages , while large enterprises are characterised by wage rigidity . |
| 9 | It is argued that disease-carrying insects and other small pests are reluctant to land on such a strange surface , with its intensely white and intensely black patches . |
| 10 | Following Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) suggestion that style arises out of the pursuit of optimal relevance , it is argued that deliberate reformulations are a stylistic device designed to achieve particular contextual effects . |
| 11 | assimilation : it is argued that initial information sets up expectancies about a person . |
| 12 | It denies the existence of a general obligation to obey the law even in a reasonably just society , though it is argued that just governments may exist , and that in certain circumstances their existence is preferable to any alternative method of social organization . |
| 13 | It is argued that lone parents have children taken away from them as a punishment for their failure to cope with society 's shortcomings and its failure to offer adequate support . |
| 14 | It is argued that pluralist accounts miss the fact that thought and action is structurally determined by the requirements of capitalism and that the scope for change through popular pressure in liberal democratic institutions is limited . |
| 15 | It is argued that cultural discontinuities between homes and schools do exist , are inevitable and are to be celebrated . |
| 16 | In the previous section , it was argued that major contributions to the growth of scientific knowledge come about either when a bold conjecture is confirmed or when a cautious conjecture is falsified . |
| 17 | In the Holland Report in 1977 it was argued that young people were no longer employed because they did not fit employers ' needs . |
| 18 | In Chapter 3 it was argued that pre-colonial society was indeed authoritarian , and that this expressed itself in a great stress on the conformity of the individual , and on a hierarchy of relationships between young and old , between chiefs and people and between men and women . |
| 19 | Moreover , it was argued that contractionary policies introduced during boom periods to reduce the growth in imports and inflationary pressures had their full effect when the economy had begun to move into recession . |
| 20 | First , it was argued that local government was financially dependent on the centre , and that ‘ he who pays the piper calls the tune ’ . |
| 21 | It was argued that social acts were essentially motivated behaviour and could be properly understood and explained only in terms of these underlying dispositions . |
| 22 | ‘ From the earliest articulation of the problem [ of rape ] it was argued that antiquated statutes provide little protection for the victim and hinder effective prosecution . |
| 23 | It was argued that supply-side economics offered most to the politicians , whereas theories of political business cycles suggest an ‘ incentive ’ but perhaps little real ability to manipulate the economy to secure re-election . |