Example sentences of "argued that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is argued that private sector firms are too risk-averse and too concerned with short-term profits . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For several years some shadow Cabinet members — notably Robin Cook — have argued that electoral reform is the way forward for the party . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In such cases , the district treasurer would have argued that financial control over the hospital remained with the traditional departmental budgets . |
| 14 | It could be argued that centralized INSET has this character of necessity , and that the other possibilities can be achieved through school-based INSET . |
| 15 | In theory , Parliament is the supreme legislative authority in the United Kingdom , but it could be argued that real power , as opposed to authority , is located elsewhere in the hands of the Cabinet or Prime Minister or leaders of industry . |
| 16 | The country 's nuclear lobby has argued that alternative energy sources are either not available or too expensive and Semenyuk told a parliamentary debate on the government 's economic reform programme that : " Experts say that after the introduction of safety measures the plant is among the safest , and not only in Ukraine . " |
| 17 | Indeed , it can be argued that central government can draw upon and use ‘ superior intelligence and knowledge ’ ( Foster et al . , |
| 18 | It is argued that greater care in extraction would lead to a higher price of the timber but , in hill-forest in Sarawak planned systems using directional felling are said to reduce logging damage by half without incurring additional costs . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Rivière ( 1984 : 4 ) has argued that such informality is a product of the emphasis by the Guianese Amerindian upon the value of individualism . |
| 22 | It could be argued that one reason why the cities have lost so many jobs and contain so many unemployed is that they are over-represented by sectors of the economy that have declined nationally — the cities merely reflecting national trends . |
| 23 | Agnew , Peet and others also argued that southern State and local governments are more favourably inclined towards capitalist interests , and provide a facilitating ‘ business climate ’ . |
| 24 | With regard to the first , it was often argued that Afro-Caribbean family and child-rearing patterns harmed the intellectual and educational development of black children , but the misleading assumptions about these patterns and consequences have now been effectively contested ( Cross , 1978 ; Reeves and Chevannes , 1983 ) . |
| 25 | Today , in light of the obligations of Article 102 of the United Nations Charter , it could perhaps be argued that each member State has constructive notice of the treaty obligations of all other members and therefore must be deemed to have notice of any restrictions upon treaty-making power . |
| 26 | In this paper I have argued that criminal law is an extremely sophisticated , demanding and complex subject which can be presented as an ‘ introductory ’ course in legal education only by serious amputation and therefore distortion . |
| 27 | In the thirty years before the First War purists and feminists consistently argued that criminal law legislation was the key to improving the nation 's morals . |
| 28 | However , it can be argued that neither strategy has succeeded in making a significant enough difference in Third World women 's access to information and skills relevant to them and useful for contributing to development in their communities . |
| 29 | Some economists have argued that short-term unemployment should be excluded from the official figures in order that the statistics be made more useful to policy-makers . |
| 30 | In work looking at the labour markets of Los Angeles and New York , Sassen ( 1989 ) has argued that economic growth creates both wealth and poverty . |