Example sentences of "argues that [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He argues that as the economy modernised and more and more women left their rural communities and their kin to seek employment in the cities , so they left behind ‘ traditional values ’ that stressed that pre-marital sex was wrong .
2 Paul Thompson ( 1967 ) sees the triumph of Labour as a constructive coalescence of the mature proletarian class consciousness which emerged with the displacement of small-scale production and an effective LLP , while Julia Bush ( 1978 ) , concentrating on the experience of East London , argues that during the first world war socialist activity and the growing confidence and strength of the trades unions enabled the LLP to establish a solid base which it exploited to the full when hostilities ceased .
3 He argues that over the last century or so the number of white-collar jobs has increased rapidly , but at the same time the skill required to do the jobs has been reduced .
4 Mr Gummer argues that under the new proposals the least efficient farmers would have , ‘ no incentive to improve and every incentive to go into reverse and avoid the impact of the new system by artificially dividing the land ’ .
5 Instead of centring his analyses on the knowledge derived from the experience of the subject , Foucault investigates the conditions of emergence of the subject as the basis of knowledge ; he argues that at the same time as it was widely proposed as the one saving good of human civilization it also facilitated a more sinister operation .
6 The political context of this is well discussed in Levi ( 1987 , Chapters 4 and 5 ) who argues that with the proposed deregulation of our prime export earner , the insurance , money and securities market , Britain has to be seen by prospective investors to have the power to eliminate financial fraud .
7 Hall argues that for the fifth Kondratiev one of the key elements is the presence of scientific research : the initial trigger for the development of the new industries of this long wave — electronics , information technology and biotechnology .
8 However he argues that for the development of lexicons there is a need for parsers capable of phrasal analysis , requiring lexicons with reliable information about subcategorisation .
9 Michel Foucault argues that in the modern period sex has become definitive of the truth of our being ( above , Chapter 14 ) .
10 He argues that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries many artists adopted versions of the Aristotelian theory which asserted that colours are a mixture of black and white in different proportions .
11 Its leader , Mr Khan Abdul Wali Khan , argues that in the absence of large-scale development in the area or alternative jobs , the government should compensate the farmers for their crop , or simply buy the whole lot .
12 On the matter of emphasising obligations rather than rights , Wringe argues that in the liberal tradition the citizen 's most important obligation is in fact the defence of rights .
13 He argues that in the case of the optical company the return of control to the workers ensured a more effective productive unit .
14 He concedes that the object-oriented paradigm needs to deal with both large objects ( applications ) and small objects ( down to characters or numbers within files ) , but argues that in the Cobol business context , a fine level of granularity is often not required .
15 This point is stressed by Professor Helmut Koester of Harvard University Divinity School , who argues that in the ‘ … vast treasure of non-canonical gospel literature there are at least some writings which have not found their rightful place in the history of this literary genre ’ .
16 Newby ( 1979 ) argues that in the mid-nineteenth century the majority of people living in villages relied on agriculture for a living , either directly or indirectly , so that each village comprised an ‘ occupational community ’ .
17 Best argues that in the early 1920s there was a conversion of land from rural to urban uses at a rate of 9,100 ha per annum , but that this increased to a level of around 21,000 ha during the 1930s .
18 Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families .
19 He argues that in the absence of diminishing returns to production of the intermediate or final good , or some element of product differentiation at intermediate or final levels , or the need for a firm 's intermediate product division to be held to being competitive , then vertically integrated firms will not participate in the intermediate good market .
20 He argues that in the historical process of conflict and compromises , one fundamental class emerges as dominant and directive , not only in the economic sphere , but also in the moral and intellectual spheres .
21 He argues that in the ‘ modern text ’ it is language alone that speaks : ‘ Dans le texte moderne , les voix sont traitées jusqu'au déni de tout repère : le discours , ou mieux encore , le langage parle , c'est tout ’ ( 1970b:48 ) .
22 From his analysis of Soviet commentary , Zimmerman argues that in the period October 1961 to March 1962 these developments ‘ exacerbated the ongoing dialogue within the Soviet ruling group concerning the adequacy of the Soviet deterrent ’ and ‘ suggested grave misgivings on the part of –ome Soviet observers lest the defining characteristics of imperialist international relations be restored ’ ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 187 ) .
23 In addition , it argues that in the academic arena , a single affair can affect more than two people : ‘ Fellow students and colleagues and the learning and working environment will be affected , especially when conflict of interest and unfairness are involved . ’
24 In bald form , Middlemas argues that around the time of the First World War the nineteenth-century British political system had broken down under the weight of the antagonism and conflicts in industrial society .
25 Here Lévi-Strauss argues that behind the original question from which Sartre began — how can man make history if history makes him ? — lurks another : if it is man who makes history , how does ‘ History ’ gain its exorbitant status as the desired , unachievable object of Sartre 's text ?
26 As we saw in Chapter 14 , Michel Foucault argues that before the nineteenth century the sodomite was someone who performed a certain kind of act ; no specific identity was attributed to , or assumed by , the sodomite .
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