Example sentences of "argue that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tissot 's famous treatise On Onania or A Treatise Upon the Disorders Produced by Masturbation ( 1760 ) argued that bodily illness resulted from the loss of semen , leading to general debility , consumption , deterioration of eyesight , digestive disorders , etc. , and the disturbance of the nervous system through increasing flow of blood to brain , distending nerves . |
| 2 | Coase ( 1937 ) argued that familiar tools of economic analysis could be used to explain why one system of organizing transactions would prevail over another . |
| 3 | In A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery ( 1760 ) , she argued that male practitioners lacked patience and sensitivity , and were too quick to resort to metal instruments , causing needless infant deaths . |
| 4 | 's ( 1965 ) three dimensions and in a survey of heads of household in Illinois , found that socioeconomic status generally accounted for more of the rural-urban variation than either occupation or residence , and then rejected Bealer 's approach when they argued that future work should concentrate on single-dimension variables . |
| 5 | Rather , Qaddafi argued that rational association of people was less valuable , less stable , intrinsically less just than association on natural bases ; and by ‘ natural ’ he meant ties of descent and kinship . |
| 6 | He argued that rational people drawing up a just social contract would only be willing to grant governments the power to punish to the extent that was necessary to protect themselves from the crimes of others . |
| 7 | Weber argued that such groups could overlap class distinctions eg. the present day Labour Party . |
| 8 | argued that such inferences are stored in memory along with the information explicitly contained in the passage , with the result that when subjects are given a recognition test they will falsely identify the inference as having occurred in the passage . |
| 9 | Thorndyke argued that such stories are easy to remember because they have a particular structure . |
| 10 | The CBI and other industrial representatives argued that such incentives already existed in the form of the employee 's salary , the training undergone at the firm 's expense , and the provision of a suitable working environment . |
| 11 | We argued that such statements reflect the growing consensus nationally about what constitutes good practice in the teaching of English . |
| 12 | They argued that such gifts could influence the buyer 's objectivity , and that they should be restricted to such nominal items as calendars , diaries , pens , etc . |
| 13 | In reply , Rathbone argued that such feminists had overlooked the fact that ‘ some aspects of our whole social fabric [ are ] man-made through generations to suit masculine interests and glorify masculine standards ’ . |
| 14 | There were those who argued that such action would alienate world opinion and sabotage the chances of a diplomatic solution . |
| 15 | Some authors argued that such feedback was the primary signal for hunger while others argued that the signal came from elsewhere . |
| 16 | In Britain , Owen and Mivart argued that many cases of evolution consisted of parallel lines of development within the same group , all driven in the same direction as though by an internally programmed force . |
| 17 | Leaders of the COS argued that many charities were encouraging the ‘ demoralization ’ of the poor by handing out benefits in cash and kind too readily and with no attempt to ensure long-term improvement in the client 's condition . |
| 18 | He argued that many organisations ( especially those that were relatively long-lasting and dependent on leaderships for their organisation and continuance ) could be interpreted in terms of the transference of early childhood affections . |
| 19 | John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic . |
| 20 | Dr Ryan argued that new approaches to financing were vital . |
| 21 | Castells , much of whose work was based on France in the late 1960s , argued that new kinds of social and political alliances were being organised around collective consumption . |
| 22 | Mulvey argued that mass-market cinema has been structured around the ‘ spectacle ’ of women 's images . |
| 23 | Last year , a report for the European Commission argued that all EC countries should set corporate taxes within a Community-wide minimum and maximum . |
| 24 | The theory was first put forward by H R Buchanan in his Manual of Psychometry in 1889 , when he argued that all objects contain the history of the world because they are connected to the Akashic Chronicles . |
| 25 | In this book he argued that all life should be a preparation for dying . |
| 26 | Some naturalists argued that all characters should be taken into account when determining relationships , but others claimed that some characters were more fundamental than others and should thus be given more weight . |
| 27 | This helped to deal a crippling blow to the preformationist theory , which argued that all parts of a living organism are already formed in miniature in the seed or egg from which it comes . |
| 28 | This point is further reinforced by Peirce who argued that all language , all inquiry and all knowledge is essentially social in character . |
| 29 | With meticulous footnoting , she now argued that all plots and revolutions against the social order in human history had been caused by secret societies , through the use of black magic , mass hypnotism and telepathy . |
| 30 | Tatarinov argued that all ministries and other governmental institutions should be obliged to produce detailed estimates for the year ahead at the time they submitted their annual accounts . |