Example sentences of "argued [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it is argued that mental events are a fact of life and , therefore , a legitimate object of psychological enquiry . |
| 2 | It is argued that disease-carrying insects and other small pests are reluctant to land on such a strange surface , with its intensely white and intensely black patches . |
| 3 | Without relative truth to hold on to it could be argued that absolute Truth , which is a matter of faith , would be nothing but empty utopianism . |
| 4 | In the previous section , it was argued that major contributions to the growth of scientific knowledge come about either when a bold conjecture is confirmed or when a cautious conjecture is falsified . |
| 5 | Indeed , David Underdown has argued that rural sports and recreations became more common after 1660 than ever before . |
| 6 | And Hodge and Whitby ( 1981 ) , the theory 's authors , have indeed argued that rural labour markets are at the core of the problem of rural depopulation in developed countries . |
| 7 | In Chapter 3 it was argued that pre-colonial society was indeed authoritarian , and that this expressed itself in a great stress on the conformity of the individual , and on a hierarchy of relationships between young and old , between chiefs and people and between men and women . |
| 8 | Eighteenth-century observers often argued that naval battles between opponents of more or less equal strength were almost certain to be indecisive , that naval warfare was by its nature unlikely to produce victories of the kind which might be expected on land . |
| 9 | It was increasingly argued that unnecessary State control of personal and community affairs was wrong in principle , serving merely to weaken the capacity of the individual to enhance life chances ; arguments not heard for perhaps half a century were rehearsed . |
| 10 | It is usually argued that fixed capital increasing projects , even if they cause local and short-term unemployment , actually increase total employment through permitting significant increases in output . |
| 11 | Namely , it is argued that small enterprises tend to be less unionized and therefore characterised by competitively-set. flexible wages , while large enterprises are characterised by wage rigidity . |
| 12 | It has been argued that continuous agriculture could be maintained if a closed nutrient cycle could be achieved , the canopy not perforated so that leaching would be prevented and the forest floor would not deteriorate , and if nutrients were added to equal those exported as crops and the diversity of species maintained . |
| 13 | It can also be argued that other candidates for possible exclusion are those who are unfit for work for one reason or another . |
| 14 | It is argued that private sector firms are too risk-averse and too concerned with short-term profits . |
| 15 | Later elite theorists , often disillusioned ex-Marxists , also argued that private ownership of the means of production was not the basis of economic class formation in either pre-industrial societies or the industrialized state-socialist societies ( Wittfogel , 1957 ; Burnham , 1941 ) . |
| 16 | However , as is indicated elsewhere in this chapter and in Chapter 6 , it can still be argued that private ownership of the means of production is the basis of economic power and wealth , and that the labour market is still the prime determinant of wage levels . |
| 17 | Nor could it be argued that private property ensured an efficient allocation of resources since the market no longer resembled the model of perfect competition . |
| 18 | For several years some shadow Cabinet members — notably Robin Cook — have argued that electoral reform is the way forward for the party . |
| 19 | Others who have done so have argued that elderly people are often faced with a choice between an unpleasant battle to survive in their own homes and an equally unpleasant enforced dependence in the institution ( Wilkin and Hughes , 1987 ) . |
| 20 | Moreover , it was argued that contractionary policies introduced during boom periods to reduce the growth in imports and inflationary pressures had their full effect when the economy had begun to move into recession . |
| 21 | In the second place , it can be argued that similar changes have taken place in the relationships between parents and children . |
| 22 | It has frequently been argued that temporary jobs , although possibly less desirable than permanent jobs , do provide a form of work for otherwise unemployed people and , furthermore , one that enhances their chances of subsequently obtaining permanent jobs ( Syrett , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | With respect to the first , we cited commentators who have argued that temporary jobs , by providing experience of recent working , increase an unemployed person 's competitiveness on the labour market . |
| 24 | It could be argued that inadequate finance and higher mortality rates among small firms is a reflection of the way market forces allocate scarce capital according to long-term growth potential . |
| 25 | It is further argued that financial markets fail to reflect the collective rate at which society wants to save and invest . |
| 26 | In such cases , the district treasurer would have argued that financial control over the hospital remained with the traditional departmental budgets . |
| 27 | However , despite this evidence , prosecution would have been political suicide since the defendants might have argued that civil servants and certain government ministers knew of the oil sanctions-busting arrangements and therefore the company considered their actions , although technically illegal , were informally condoned by governmental officials . |
| 28 | It could be argued that centralized INSET has this character of necessity , and that the other possibilities can be achieved through school-based INSET . |
| 29 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 30 | However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract . |