Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] argue that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TNCs will naturally and in many cases justifiably argue that what their critics consider to be the creation of new needs in developing countries in order to boost profits is , in fact , a response to changing consumer needs that arise in societies that are in the process of urbanization and industrialization . |
| 2 | Hoteliers constantly argue that Muzak encourages relaxation but it is certainly not to everyone 's taste . |
| 3 | The companies successfully argued that many elements of the Macintosh screen , which uses movable symbols rather than typed commands , were not original or that they had been invented by Xerox Corporation or International Business Machines . |
| 4 | Moscucci further argues that this historical situation is fully comprehensible only if we take into account the 19th-century debates about femininity . |
| 5 | Parents also argue that by the time the results of the SATS are published their children will already have chosen their GCSE subjects . |
| 6 | Eighteenth-century observers often argued that naval battles between opponents of more or less equal strength were almost certain to be indecisive , that naval warfare was by its nature unlikely to produce victories of the kind which might be expected on land . |
| 7 | As had been the case during the Exclusion Crisis , Tories and Anglicans repeatedly argued that the Nonconformists were acting on popish principles in seeking to destroy both Church and State . |
| 8 | Opponents also argued that open space in the centre of town should not be used up and suggested re-siting the complex on former industrial land . |
| 9 | But the functionalists also argue that the ideology which informs the common law approach is hostile to the positive aims of modern government , that the judiciary display a philosophical , cultural , or political bias when reviewing administrative action and therefore that new institutions with new personnel are required to develop a new jurisprudence for the modern age . |
| 10 | Ley hunters also argue that plenty of leys are marked by archaeologically-homogenous sites . |
| 11 | Environmental groups also argue that overconsumption by the farmers has damaged many natural habitats in California . |
| 12 | Emboldened by their own good fortune , the Maronites even argued that they did not need their Syrian saviours in the streets of Christian east Beirut . |
| 13 | Ironically , the recreational users and providers invariably argue that their pursuits have little or no environmental impact , and yet they are reluctant to share or publicise ‘ their sites ’ and resources — why ? |
| 14 | Industrialists sometimes argued that they would generate even more electricity privately if the Boards did not make excessive charges for standby supplies , and this view derived some plausibility from the fact that the share of private generation was lower in Britain than in other European countries . |
| 15 | Soviet writers subsequently argued that the EEC policy on the Afghan issue , coordinated in the neutralisation plan , ‘ served as an additional factor strengthening the inconsistency of the policy of Pakistan in the ‘ Afghan question ’ and , consequently , postponing the prospects of a real settlement of the situation around Afghanistan ’ . |
| 16 | Social theories thus argue that freedom requires an understanding of the self and our self-understanding or identity can only be understood in relation to the practices of our society . |
| 17 | Critics also argue that little account has been taken of changes already forced on commercial broadcasting before legislation . |
| 18 | Critics also argue that this has been compounded by a policy which has unfairly favoured the private sector in preference to the public sector . |
| 19 | Some critics also argue that any qualification of economic determinism threatens the distinctiveness of Marxism . |
| 20 | Some critics also argue that there is a direct link between hospital closures and widespread homelessness and vagrancy , but this argument is not borne out by research . |
| 21 | Critics also argue that , because statements made under the lobby rules mean that they can not be directly attributed to Mr Ingham , his colleagues or Government Ministers , they are less credible than if they had been made on the record . |
| 22 | In the early , fourteenth century , Edward 's lawyers also argued that the treaty was in any case no longer valid . |
| 23 | The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children . |
| 24 | Some health professionals even argued that they learnt more from the process than did the ‘ recipient ’ villagers . |
| 25 | Although her views are still regarded as highly eccentric outside reactionary conservative and fascist circles , it is interesting to note that some historians now argue that secret societies like the IRA and the Mafia have indeed played a significant role in world events , and that the Illuminati conspiracy in the 1780s was truly a model for future revolutionary organization . |
| 26 | The plaintiffs then argued that they were entitled to equal treatment by the law ; it was unjust that they should be compelled to use the Convention , the translation requirements of which they found insurmountably expensive , whilst the foreign defendant was under no such burden . |
| 27 | In the thirty years before the First War purists and feminists consistently argued that criminal law legislation was the key to improving the nation 's morals . |
| 28 | But last night 60 opponents again argued that the store would be an eyesore on an attractive route into Darlington and would increase traffic in the area . |
| 29 | Soviet spokesmen generally argued that , considerable though their ethnic differences might be , they would diminish and ultimately disappear as social and economic standards throughout the USSR improved and became more uniform . |
| 30 | Lorenz , Ardrey and others nevertheless argue that collective instincts and forms of aggression amongst contemporary human beings ( and especially amongst males ) have now been canalised into ritual and symbolic forms : types of aggression which do not usually result in damage . |