Example sentences of "argue that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coase ( 1937 ) argued that familiar tools of economic analysis could be used to explain why one system of organizing transactions would prevail over another . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dr Ryan argued that new approaches to financing were vital . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In The Future of Socialism — and in a classic revisionist sentence — Anthony Crosland argued that democratic socialists , instead of fussing about ‘ glaring and conspicuous evils , squalor and injustice and distressed areas … have to fuss about the balance of payments , and incentives , and higher productivity ’ . |
| 6 | We argued that Western rulers had finally taken out against Saddam not because he was a monster but because he had broken loose and was no longer their monster . |
| 7 | They argued that existing maps and digitized files from them are unable to meet these needs at global or regional scale and only remote sensing could help in the short term : the availability of stereometric data from the French SPOT satellite has already led to proposals for automated creation of global digital elevation models with a spatial ( XY ) resolution of about 30 m ( Muller 1989 ) . |
| 8 | Mr Chope argued that Labour MPs had misunderstood the implications for council rents of changes to the way the Government provides subsidies . |
| 9 | They argued that hemispheric differences only emerge at later stages of processing beyond immediate registration . |
| 10 | This account provoked an immediate riposte from Postman ( 1955 ) , who objected that no mechanism had been specified to explain the process by which differentiation occurs and argued that associative processes constituted a possibility . |
| 11 | He argued that sociological explanations of action should begin with ‘ the observation and theoretical interpretation of the subjective ‘ states of minds ’ of actors ' . |
| 12 | Thorndyke argued that bridging inferences should be stored as an integral part of a subject 's memory of a passage . |
| 13 | Glyn and Sutcliffe ( 1972 ) argued that low profits have been a major factor in low levels of investment in the UK . |
| 14 | However he argued that ancient woodlands were still under threat from new planting and new road developments — for example the proposed destruction of Oxleas Wood in south east London , to make way for a Thames crossing . |
| 15 | Pre-agricultural man as a forest dweller would have left no trace , although , like D'Arcy Thompson , who argued that sacred groves , as revered in many tropical countries today , were the inspiration for columned buildings ( hence the Greek temple and all modern architecture ) , it has been entertainingly argued by Corner that traces of forest life are embedded in modern society . |
| 16 | The Security Service , on the other hand , argued that violent demonstrations which threatened public order could only benefit political extremism in general , as it provided incentive for recruitment for both fascists and communists . |
| 17 | I had a discussion with a middle-class Jamaican woman who argued that Jamaican women are more liberated than Western women because they are more economically active . |
| 18 | The 1977 white paper , Policy for the Inner Cities ( HMSO , 1977 ) , argued that additional powers should be granted to local authorities to enable them to assist industry . |
| 19 | This echoed the view of a number of solicitor respondents , one of whom argued that sole practitioners should be required to change their accountant annually ; whilst others said sole practitioners should be prohibited from instructioning sole practitioner accountants . |
| 20 | The Newsom Report argued that young women should be prepared for their future roles as wives and mothers . |
| 21 | Some philosophers saw ‘ force ’ as more fundamental than matter , and Schelling argued that polar forces underlay all phenomena , and that apparent rest was really equilibrium . |
| 22 | These ‘ social capital ’ arguments may have been what Titmuss meant when he argued that major wars increase governmental concern for women and children , and produce social policies to protect them . |
| 23 | The government argued that select committees could examine the actions of civil servants but not their conduct . |
| 24 | The Majority , whilst also favouring discipline for the poor , argued that voluntary workers would respond more flexibly to need than those limited by state regulations . |
| 25 | In 1829 Elie de Beaumont put forward the idea that the Earth is contracting and argued that compressional stresses set up in the crust as a result of the cooling of the Earth 's interior would give rise to faulting , folding and thickening of the crust , and eventually to the formation of mountain ranges . |
| 26 | the impact of the Channel Tunnel on Wales has been subject of a recent House of Commons inquiry at which the Welsh Counties Committee argued that considerable benefits could accrue to the Principality if improved transport links with the Tunnel are provided . |
| 27 | Benelux in particular objected to the vigour with which de Gaulle and France were pushing the Fouchet Plan , and argued that fundamental decisions such as those raised by the plan should be deferred until at least the question of British membership of the EEC had been resolved . |
| 28 | Pope and Yadav ( 1992 ) argued that potential arbitrageurs can be divided into groups , each with a different level of arbitrage transactions costs . |
| 29 | Ferrari argued that proper procedures had not been followed in Portugal and that Mansell had been unable to hear the instructions on his radio as he travelled at 170 mph past the pits . |
| 30 | At the same time that Engels argued that primitive societies were classless , he inevitably argued that the complex and subtle theory of history which he and Marx had developed just did not apply to these societies . |