Example sentences of "argue that such [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There were those who argued that such action would alienate world opinion and sabotage the chances of a diplomatic solution .
2 Some authors argued that such feedback was the primary signal for hunger while others argued that the signal came from elsewhere .
3 Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable .
4 It has equally been mooted that postmodernism in the aesthetic realm — and I have argued that such postmodernism first surfaced in the Surrealism and more generally in the historical avant-garde of the 1920s — has been an important condition of formation of poststructuralism in the human sciences ( Huyssen 1984 ; see above , Chapter Three ) .
5 Rivière ( 1984 : 4 ) has argued that such informality is a product of the emphasis by the Guianese Amerindian upon the value of individualism .
6 They agree that the government gets extra television coverage but argue that such coverage is not necessarily favourable .
7 The severest critics of exclusively personal , creative writing are the Language in Use team , who argue that such work does not help pupils achieve social competence .
8 Some linguists argue that such equivalence does not exist ( Bolinger 1977 ) while others like Coveney argue that a weaker kind of equivalence ( of a kind which can not however easily be specified ) is sufficient for identifying structures as variants of an underlying variable .
9 Hubbell and Foster argue that such thinking could lead to a return to the classical views of rain forest and speciation espoused by Corner , Fedorov and van Steenis .
10 Yet I would wish to argue that such understanding should be encouraged and supported .
11 Bateson follows Richards , Bickersteth , and others in arguing that such experience is psychologically valuable provided that the reader approaches it as " patient " rather than active interrogator .
12 Advocates of participative approaches to the introduction of new technology would applaud the involvement of production workers in ‘ productionising ’ the machinery , arguing that such involvement would mean that the particular knowledge of the workers , gained from their on-the-job experience , could be made good use of , and also that such involvement usually leads to greater commitment to the change .
13 Bosanquet argues that such individualism is based on a false understanding of the self .
14 The Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto in his book , The Other Path , argues that such change can be brought about in the Latin American context by legalizing the informals .
15 It is not inconsistent with this interpretation that managerialist goals are sometimes pursued , but it argues that such conduct should be seen as aberrant behaviour , contrary to the dominant management culture .
16 Engels discusses certain objections to Morgan 's scheme , especially the presence of long-term pairing among animals , but he argues that such evidence from non-human animals is irrelevant to human systems .
17 The suggestion that the boards are of ply construction has been questioned by Härke ( 1981 ) who argues that such evidence is created by the use of a wooden grip in front of the iron handle ; a series of possible reconstructions was offered ( Figure 3.1 ) .
18 Whereas Levinas , like Habermas , posits an authentic language of expression which abhors the distortions of ‘ rhetoric ’ , Derrida argues that such alterity is constituted not through dialogue but rather through the operation of language itself : Levinas ' transcendence-as-surplus is therefore redefined as a Derridean supplement .
19 They will argue that such job creation as may have taken place is temporary and artificial , that the cost of achieving even this was too high and that it would have been cheaper and industrially more advantageous if people from development areas had been forced or encouraged to move to the prosperous areas .
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