Example sentences of "[noun prp] argued [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Devlin argued in The Enforcement of Morals that a shared morality is necessary for the continued existence of society , an assumption also central to Parsonian sociology . |
| 2 | The United States argued in the context of Suez that there is a user right appertaining to all users of the Canal , including , presumably , potential users . |
| 3 | Poetry , as Sidney argued in the Defence , is art , imitation , and exercise . |
| 4 | ‘ Under the shadow of the very great crisis ’ , Lyle argued at the North West Ham Conservative Club , ‘ nobody knew what the result might have been ’ : |
| 5 | Also , in the context of industrial decline , the UK argued for the inclusion of some inner city areas under Objective 2 . |
| 6 | Kirsten argued with the umpires and Indian players before reluctantly leaving the field . |
| 7 | Thus Sir Thomas Clarges argued in the House of Commons in December 1689 that William " came in by the Church of England , their pens , sermons , and sufferings " . |
| 8 | Leon Trotsky argued in the run-up to the short-lived 1905 uprising that Russia could telescope together two revolutionary stages — first , the ‘ bourgeois ’ political revolution to topple the feudal apparatus of Czarism and establish a liberal constitutional regime ; and , second , the working-class social revolution to decisively overthrow capitalism . |
| 9 | Liberal theorists such as T. H. Green argued in the 1880s and 90s that poor social conditions hindered the desirable growth of moral and communal responsibility among the poor , but Green also looked to improvement from increased voluntary exercise of responsibility and regarded state intervention only as a last resort . |
| 10 | Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . " |
| 11 | Kelsall argued for the fundamental reform , academically and architecturally , of Oxford and Cambridge , urging them to ‘ Take at last measures to keep peace with the improvements made in the present age , in all the departments of science and art . ’ |
| 12 | It was against the New Critics that Ohmann argued for the reinstatement of dualism in the passage already quoted . |
| 13 | In a spirited performance which prompted the Independent of Feb. 27 to describe him as " a virtuoso in the arts of presidential memory-lapse and sheer buffoonery " , Zhivkov argued with the prosecution lawyers and joked with the court before leaving the witness stand after three hours , complaining that the trial was a " farce " and refusing to answer further questions . |
| 14 | Criticizing the orthodox Marxism which regarded dialectics as an external law validated by natural science , Lukács argued for the primacy of history over economics as the most significant element in the methodology of Marxism . |
| 15 | As Bishop Empey argued to the synod : ‘ Somehow we have to nail the lie that permissiveness flows from the Church of Ireland and that morality is the sole possession of but one Church in this land ’ ( Irish Times , 22 May 1986 ) . |