Example sentences of "[be] argue that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has often been argued that systems theory in sociology adopts a positivist approach . |
| 2 | It has been argued that factors in medical organisation , such as the use of deputies , may be more important than variations in patient demand in shaping the number of night visits . |
| 3 | During periods of uncertainty ( for example , after a shock rise in oil prices ) it has been argued that firms will reduce the value they place on expected future returns on investment projects . |
| 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 | In particular , it has been argued that blacks are innately inferior to whites in terms of intelligence . |
| 6 | It has been argued that forms of control over state enterprises are inherently problematic . |
| 7 | It has also been argued that changes in patterns of work may alter the balance of domestic work . |
| 8 | By contrast it has been argued that lawyers ' characteristic and specific practice is translation into a discourse which they both use and create . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Of non-flowering plants , it has been argued that ferns have a lower associated insect fauna , though it has long been known that bracken has a large number of associated arthropods . |
| 11 | Elsewhere it has been argued that ecosystems are ordered arrangements of matter in which energy inputs carry out work ( Stoddart , 1965 ) and that if the energy input is removed the structure will break down until the components are randomly arranged which with maximum entropy is the most probable state . |
| 12 | Moreover , it could be argued that prisoners are more at risk of further offences than probationers because of , first , their commission of relatively more serious offences , and second , their more extensive and therefore more entrenched criminal careers . |
| 13 | On this basis it could be argued that companies should indeed be regarded as purely private organisations , and that state intervention in their internal affairs constitutes an improper interference with the moral rights of the participants . |
| 14 | It could be argued that variations in economic and social circumstances are very largely responsible for shaping the visible patterns of support , but that these only occur because of an underlying sense of duty and responsibility towards relatives ; this operates independently of external circumstances . |
| 15 | Because persuading people to be unpaid referees is difficult it could be argued that editors have to pass the comments on . |
| 16 | Although officially accorded little or no power , it could be argued that women 's culturally ambiguous position within Hebrew patriarchy resulted in a type of informal sub-structural power dynamic which in turn regenerated the culturally constructed fear of women necessary to patriarchal interests and explicit power concerns . |
| 17 | Goldthorpe has argued that this justifies studying only male mobility , but it can be argued that women 's occupational position and chances are both important sociologically , and important to women and their families . |
| 18 | For it could be argued that women artists have a quite specific relationship and history to publicly sited works . |
| 19 | Thus it may be argued that managers are more important than routine office staff since the latter are dependent on direction and organization from management . |
| 20 | Although some physical geographers such as Thomas ( 1980 p. v ) have argued that study of the energetics of the land surface ‘ has perhaps robbed the subject of some of its scope and depth ’ it can be argued that investigations of process energetics have provided some depth of understanding and have extended the scope towards recent temporal change ( p. 153 ) . |
| 21 | It could be argued that defendants who might otherwise have been acquitted could be persuaded to plead guilty to lesser offences . |
| 22 | Designer and architect are probably the most demanding of these skills , although it could be argued that artists and writers , beauty consultants , hairdressers and photographers also need them . |
| 23 | The human resources director of a large UK wines and spirits business also suggested that once total costs were taken into account , it could be argued that headhunters were not necessarily more expensive than using home-grown methods . |
| 24 | By placing such emphasis on social reaction it can be argued that Interactionists have minimised the role of the individual criminal . |
| 25 | Of course , it can be argued that readers get the paper that they want or deserve . |
| 26 | The mock reality of fiction has its points of overlap with our model of the real world , and indeed it can be argued that readers will assume isomorphism between the two unless given indications to the contrary . |
| 27 | It can be argued that rates of interest may also influence the precautionary demand . |
| 28 | However , of the three areas excluded from potential transfer to the Community , it might be argued that customs co-operation was already implicit in the concept of the customs union ( which has existed since 1968 ) . |
| 29 | It can be argued that children need to be part of a mixed age school community from time to time , for that is the pattern of life . |
| 30 | It might be argued that children experience difficulties in the area of language development precisely because the normal developmental processes have broken down . |