Example sentences of "been argue that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It has been argued that a de-clawed cat can learn to use its teeth more when grooming .
3 Despite the inherent difficulties in comparative work it has been argued that an international perspective has always been implicit to some extent in the study of industrial relations .
4 It has been argued that an appropriate definition of central in this context would be information related to risks and potential risks in a situation .
5 It has been argued that the spiritual prestige of the papacy was tarnished by its use of temporal strength to achieve its ends , but that is in many ways a modern concept .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 It has been argued that the existing investment in interactive video may act as a barrier to the use of other future multimedia platforms in training .
10 It has also been argued that the legal system enables the powerful to get away with exploiting other people without actually breaking the law .
11 Clearly , gifts of precious metal were something in which Cnut delighted , and it has recently been argued that the magnificently-illustrated gospel books which have survived from this period , and others which have not , were commissioned by Cnut and Emma for donation to favoured individuals and churches .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 But it has also been argued that the proprietary view extends , in theory and in practice , to public limited companies .
18 In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey .
19 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 .
20 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 ) .
21 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 ) .
22 It has been argued that the American economy is dependent for its survival on the maintenance of high levels of military spending .
23 It has been argued that the dilute nature of the nectar in such flowers deters some bee robbers that may be unable to concentrate it : the birds would prefer concentrated sugars .
24 It has been argued that the sexual division of labour between husband and wife may be interpreted as the best way of maximising the welfare of the working class family , and certainly the struggle for a family wage benefited working class families to the extent that it raised the wages of the male breadwinner .
25 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 ) .
26 It has been argued that the Conservative government has in its policy changes ( if not publicly voiced ) moved towards a more Keynesian stance .
27 It has been argued that the primitive features are innate , and the tendency to make binary oppositions is natural to human cognition .
28 It is difficult to assess the effects of the first true humans in rain forests but it has been argued that the Australian aborigines may have been responsible for the removal of some of the Araucaria forest of tropical Queensland , leading to the advance of Eucalyptus there , as well as locally exterminating much of the megafauna .
29 So far I have been arguing that the essential subject matter of all kinds of anthropology is the diversity of mankind , both biological and cultural , while my own particular concern , as a social anthropologist , is with moral ( cultural ) diversity within a matrix of ( approximate ) species-wide biological uniformity .
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