Example sentences of "arguing that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attlee attacked the very basis of the perception that the Mediterranean was crucial to Britain in time of war , arguing that with the development of air power the resources needed to protect sea routes from Gibraltar to Suez would be impossible to find . |
| 2 | As a result , because they saw descent groups as enlarged families , something which Marx and Engels had themselves done in The German Ideology , but which they later emphatically rejected , Marx saw writers such as Maine arguing that monogamy , the subjugation of women , the nuclear family and private property were ineluctable basic principles in the nature of man . |
| 3 | They refused to sign the bond , arguing that to do so would prevent them from making any public protests . |
| 4 | One very early sign of a more positive attitude , arguing that physical ageing could be delayed through a plentiful diet , regular sleep and short naps , and moderate exercise including riding and dancing , is Francis Bacon 's History of Life and Death ( 1623 ) . |
| 5 | He laid great emphasis on the unity of the Trinity , arguing that root , stem , and bark together form one tree . |
| 6 | In arguing that companion animals , particularly dogs and cats , require freedom of movement and the company of other animals , one has to accept that allowing cats to roam freely and dogs to have a period of exercise off the lead is necessary to ensure good animal welfare . |
| 7 | The feminist linguists Jenkins and Kramarae have criticised the sociolinguistic approach , arguing that |
| 8 | The evidence for arguing that newspaper — and media — ownership is concentrated in a few hands is fairly abundant ( see Table 4.2 ) but this does not , of itself , provide material for analysing the extent to which ‘ this potential for control is actually realized in practice , how exactly it operates and in whose ultimate interest ( it is ) … ’ . |
| 9 | The women wanted more opportunities for part time training in research , but the male establishment was doubtful — arguing that ‘ triple accreditation ’ as a clinician , scientist , and mother was too much . |
| 10 | However , Swallow was not optimistic regarding the prospects for the latter , arguing that administrative confusion on the border with the Czech Republic now made it easier to ship kit to Slovakia from a third country . |
| 11 | When the statement was just a proposal banks objected to it fiercely , arguing that unpredictable day-to-day swings in securities prices , for example , could expose them to crises of confidence among investors . |
| 12 | MacLachlan successfully obtained through Milton 's aid a delay in a foreclosure by the Royal Bank , and the freeholder hoped to persuade the politician to continue to stand between him and his creditors because of the value of his vote to the Argyll interest , arguing that |
| 13 | Alison Jaggar , in Feminist Politics and Human Nature ( 1983 ) , looks at the relation between feminist theory and political philosophy , arguing that different feminist theories — liberal feminism , radical feminism , Marxist feminism and socialist feminism — imply different conceptions of human nature and have different implications for practice . |
| 14 | The employers " interests led them to be " nationalist " , arguing that to safeguard their share of the market and to maintain the Scottish capital as a printing centre , they had to keep down costs , or go out of business . |
| 15 | It was weak in its doctrine of the holy spirit and perhaps heretical in arguing that sanctification was by means of sacraments . |
| 16 | There are grounds for arguing that learning hierarchies like this which are both progressive and universal are extremely difficult to find . |
| 17 | He explored this theme most famously in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1930 ) and related works , arguing that Calvinistic Protestantism 's individualistic ethos and positive attitude to the accumulation of private wealth provided the key to understanding why capitalism had arisen in the West rather than in Asia where the economic conditions for capitalist development existed to at least an equal extent . |
| 18 | He studied the changing vegetation around the shores of Lake Michigan , arguing that local factors such as the lake interfered with the natural plant covering characteristic of the region . |
| 19 | Indeed , a minister may even ‘ expressly desire to keep out of the affairs of quangos within the ambit of his department , arguing that to behave otherwise is merely to frustrate the whole purpose of this way of organising public services ’ ( Johnson , 1979 , p. 389 ) . |
| 20 | In 1984 Clare Bradley of Sheffield University published a persuasive paper ( Bradley 1984 ) arguing that sex bias affected the assessment of student projects . |
| 21 | It is to gain authority from the Poetics for his " bourgeois tragedy " ( bürgerliches Trauerspiel ) by arguing that with the reduction in the social standing of the characters of his plays must come a corresponding reduction in the intensity of the emotions displayed by them and the reversals of fortune that they experience . |
| 22 | I think this was one of the quiffs erm , arguing that er , a proposal er , will help prepare , the letter was n't . |
| 23 | I do n't know it may be that I 'll be the only member er that talks in terms of a specific Euro seat er in any detail but it does matter in our area and we have a long history of arguing that case . |
| 24 | Madam Speaker I am sure that my right honourable friend the Chancellor 's proposals to er reduce the burden of national insurance contributions will have a very beneficial effect er on employment a and on businesses but er if members opposite and er the honourable gentleman er says what he thinks clearly , if members opposite are arguing that higher public expenditure and higher taxation will have an impact on employment then he 's absolutely right . |
| 25 | So in , rational grounds y y you would be arguing that , that if we 're going to set this policy up we 're going to have to accept that i it 's going , it is going to be a long term policy . |
| 26 | Now if , if one is arguing that then the , the number of peasants who are really below a very basic subsistence level as a result of land reform is , is much lower . |