Example sentences of "argue [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmers argued the correct size would be six times bigger . |
| 2 | He argued the congested roads and lack of parking spaces adversely affected the town 's all-important tourist industry by putting off visitors . |
| 3 | The Council argued the proposed change of operating centre on tree nursery land did not conform with rural development in that area . |
| 4 | ‘ But yer can 'it 'em , ’ argued the Old Stager . |
| 5 | I happen to know , from a friend of mine , that Robert Trivers , long before he was the great evolutionary biologist he is today , when he was an illustrator of children 's books , argued the whole thing to and fro with a friend of mine who was a Freudian analyist and he tells me that in the beginning all they talked about was Freud . |
| 6 | I am glad to join my hon. Friend in congratulating those local people who have argued the strong case for ensuring that the hospital facilities at that building continue to be provided to the people of Ely . |
| 7 | Hence , in recent years , we have witnessed the publication of the Gulbenkian Report , the report by the APU Working Party on Aesthetic Development , and the setting up of various national arts organizations , such as the National Association for Education in the Arts , all of which have argued the philosophical justification for arts education . |
| 8 | ‘ The best defence for our colonies , as well as for our coasts , ’ he had argued the previous year , ‘ is to have a squadron always to the westward … [ which ] may in all probability either keep the French in port , or give them battle with advantage if they come out . ’ |
| 9 | Frederick II himself had argued a few years earlier that ‘ useful hard-working people should be guarded as the apple of one 's eye , and in wartime recruits should be levied in one 's own country only when the bitterest necessity compels ’ . |
| 10 | Superintendent Dunlap of the Metropolitan Police and Inspector Arnold of Whitechapel Division argued a convincing case before the Lords ' Committee on the advantages of greater state powers . |
| 11 | Andrew Kelly , for Tendring District Council , argued a premature decision could prejudice the future development of the area . |
| 12 | What did surprise him a little , and which argued a political maturity that even sensitive Western observers were sometimes inclined to overlook , was that , in three days of systematic canvassing of Libyan opinion , he encountered little or no personal hostility . |
| 13 | b ) Effectiveness of the Law Society in its regulatory role — there was scope , argued a considerable number of respondents , for the Law Society to improve its effectiveness in enforcing the current regulations . |
| 14 | That , argued an early church preacher , John Chrysostom , is why Jesus performed his first miracle at the wedding in Cana of Galilee . |
| 15 | If appearing on behalf of a respondent in such a case it would be essential to argue the alternative reasons when showing what was the reason for dismissal . |
| 16 | There are many to argue the first point . |
| 17 | It is more useful to argue the variable nature of the relationship between the individual and society than to assume a linear evolution towards the autonomous self . |
| 18 | ‘ You dare to argue the Holy Bible with me ? |
| 19 | It is a totally inadequate approach to the problem , to argue the direct cost of the protective system without considering whether it will be effective in stopping the fire within the ‘ acceptable limit ’ — indeed if the system is not capable of doing this , then it is a waste of money to install it , no matter what attractive inducements are offered to do so . |
| 20 | Comparisons at this level of guitar-building are difficult ; you 're welcome to argue the relative merits of Lowden , Martin , Santa Cruz , Taylor , old Fyldes and so on until you 're blue in the face , but the fact is that they 're all different guitars which excel in different areas . |
| 21 | They argue the initial expense of ploughing in will be repaid by greater yields in the future . |
| 22 | I argue the same case this year as I did last year , but with greater justification . |
| 23 | The Federation was now compelled to change its ground and argue the National Union was only one of several organisations claiming to organise merchant seamen . |
| 24 | The study of " kinship " really does lie at the very heart of social anthropology and anthropologists argue a great deal among themselves about just what the word is supposed to mean . |
| 25 | Locke of course wants to argue a strong case to the contrary , he wants to argue that membership of a civil society is voluntary . |
| 26 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 27 | But you will , nevertheless , be expected to be original in the sense of using your own knowledge and independent judgement to argue an original case . |
| 28 | Edmund Dulac 's illustrations of fairy-tales are painted onto the papered walls , and will keep even today 's adults arguing the visible score of either eleven or thirteen stories ! |
| 29 | In arguing the Slovak case for the altar Mr Richard Marsina , a historian charged with heading the Slovak commission for drawing up claims , points to Prago-centrism — one of the grievances that led to Slovakia following its path to independent statehood . |
| 30 | Secondly , environmentalists are now extremely nimble at arguing the whole notion of self-interest as the strongest justification for environmental protection ; indeed it has become something of an art form to demonstrate that measures to protect the environment are essentially of value to human beings and that this is the best reason for their implementation that there could possibly be . |