Example sentences of "they argue [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , they argued that a Maximum Admissible Concentration should be treated as an absolute limit not to be breached , and not the basis of an average . |
| 2 | IT IS now a little more than three years since four biologists caused a minor uproar among molecular geneticists by publishing in Nature two papers in which they argued that a substantial proportion of the DNA of animal cells may exist for no higher purpose than its own propagation . |
| 3 | Similarly , they argued that a person 's motor racing was a hobby in Atlas Marketing ( 1985 ) 2 BVC 205 , 298 . |
| 4 | They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate . |
| 5 | They argued that a communist victory in northern Indo-China would help to relieve the economic problems of communist China ( long-term Chinese weakness being an important assumption in American policy ) . |
| 6 | They argued that a short 'scene-setting " sentence such as " It rained hard " was a more appropriate beginning to the story . |
| 7 | They argue that a balance must be struck between team spirit and individual rewards . |
| 8 | They argue that a continuation of Green Belt restrictions in their present form will turn the countryside into a ghetto for rich commuters while local people pay for this rural idyll in homelessness and unemployment . |
| 9 | They argue that a great deal of public-sector investment would have inevitably occurred , and that little of it was new . |
| 10 | And thirdly they argue that a model formulated by Japanese scientists to estimate the numbers of sperm whales , which is based on age of whale at sexual maturity , offers better evidence about whale stocks than the model developed by the International Institute for Economic Development , which uses length of whale ; yet the Japanese model does not fit the data as well as the IIED model . |
| 11 | Mittler and Mittler ( 1982 ) make a similar point when they argue that a clear distinction should be drawn between the concepts of ‘ partnership ’ and ‘ involvement ’ . |
| 12 | They argue that a socialist alternative is not offered because the Labour Party is not so much concerned to abolish capitalism as to manage it better than the other parties . |