Example sentences of "[been] argued that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it has been argued that nectar might contain repellents to ants that otherwise predominate on sugary substrates in the tropics , it is found that ants will take this nectar when it is presented to them , though the floral parts of such flowers may be less palatable . |
| 2 | Although convection in the mantle has attracted considerable support as a likely cause of plate motion , it has also been argued that flow in the asthenosphere may simply be a consequence of the drag exerted by the movement of overlying plates . |
| 3 | It has often been argued that systems theory in sociology adopts a positivist approach . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In fact , even within these criteria , it has been argued that Adorno wrongly omits some forms of ‘ light ’ music ( Paddison 1982 ) . |
| 6 | It has already been argued that physics is constructed through a series of dualities in which physics is rated positively , and other disciplines , chiefly the arts , are rated negatively . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It had been argued that exchange rate flexibility allows the individual country to determine its own monetary policy and , therefore , choose its preferred rate of inflation . |
| 9 | It has often been argued that Marxism is largely based on a utopian ideology , functionalism on a ruling ideology . |
| 10 | Third , it has been argued that Abelard 's theory is too subjective . |
| 11 | It has been argued that Britain could adopt their position , but would eventually move to narrower trading margins . |
| 12 | Again , it has been argued that colour contrast and other factors may be important because red contrasts well with green and many hummingbird plants with bluish leaves have yellow flowers , the complementary colour . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In particular , it has been argued that blacks are innately inferior to whites in terms of intelligence . |
| 15 | Except in the mountainous Balkans , this did not prove possible : and it has more recently been argued that resistance was ‘ seldom effective , sometimes stultifying , frequently dangerous , and almost always too costly ’ . |
| 16 | However it has been argued that concern about social dumping is misplaced . |
| 17 | It has been argued that forms of control over state enterprises are inherently problematic . |
| 18 | It has also been argued that changes in patterns of work may alter the balance of domestic work . |
| 19 | It has been argued that Foucault 's intense interest in analysing discourses of the human subject ( Foucault 1982 ) allows an unnoticed ideal of subjectivity to persist in his work ( Cousins and Hussain 1984 ) . |
| 20 | It has been argued that differentiation in refugia is less marked in trees than it is in insects or birds , because of their different life spans , but such theory provides an explanation for the now sympatric occurrence of 12 species of Eschweilera ( Lecythidaceae ) near Manaus . |
| 21 | Instead , it has been argued that exposure to complex sentences is necessary so that the child can adequately test inferences about the relationship between grammatical form and meaning ( Gleitman et al . |
| 22 | By contrast it has been argued that lawyers ' characteristic and specific practice is translation into a discourse which they both use and create . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | It has been argued that Jesus could not have been executed on Passover day because : |
| 25 | Thus , it has been argued that photography is the quintessential surrealist art form , that photographs are like ‘ death masks ’ , like footprints in the sense of being ‘ imprints of the real ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 110 ) . |
| 26 | It has been argued that diesel takes a much smaller amount of process heat to refine , and is therefore more environmentally considerate all round . |
| 27 | On the basis of certain assumptions about the chemical heterogeneity of the mantle and a postulated marked increase in viscosity with depth , it has been argued that convection would be confined to the asthenosphere , that is to a maximum depth of about 300 km ( Fig. 2.1 7(A) ) . |
| 28 | As some plates have horizontal dimensions of thousands of kilometres it has been argued that convection cells of equivalent horizontal and vertical dimensions would be required to move them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It has been argued that Napoleon III was influenced by the example of London , a city which at the beginning of his reign he knew better than Paris , for he had lived longer in it , and that the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes were the equivalent of London 's Royal parks . |