Example sentences of "[adv] [be] argue that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had long been argued that the maintenance of a low level of unemployment should be the guiding principle of a government 's economic policy . |
| 2 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 3 | In this way it can perhaps be argued that the underlying rationale for the existence of the Eurocurrency market has been somewhat undermined , hence the classification by the BIS statistics to encompass the whole International Banking Market , of which the Euromarket is a part . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it has not been argued that the Secretary of State 's decision on the tariff could properly be challenged if he adopted the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice where this differed from that of the trial judge . |
| 5 | It has thus been argued that the singularities and in regions II and III are essentially extensions of the singularity in region IV . |
| 6 | It has thus been argued that the general structure of all colliding plane wave solutions is as illustrated in Figure 8.6 with with the possible exception that , for some solutions , the curvature singularity in region IV is replaced by a Cauchy horizon . |
| 7 | Yet it has already been argued that the marginal costs of the good will be a function of the number of people in the community , and therefore , relate to different numbers ( e.g. 100 , 200 , 300 residents in the community ) . |
| 8 | It has just been argued that a thorough analysis of the market attractiveness and competitive strengths of an SBU ( possibly based upon a Porter analysis ) , should provide more insight into the future covariability of the SBU and total market returns . |
| 9 | But could it not be argued that the RSPCA , and others who carry out such a praiseworthy activity , are interfering with the natural selection process ? |
| 10 | It certainly can not be argued that the ‘ development plan position will have been clarified ’ or that the Review ( or the Draft ) ‘ will be complete and offer good guidelines as to the issues to be tackled and the Council 's attitude to them ’ . |
| 11 | It can further be argued that the principal objects , or targets , of the new legislation were not only women , but also children . |
| 12 | Thus it can hardly be argued that the LEA had not taken steps to facilitate improvements in the school . |
| 13 | It has also been argued that a reliance on external inspection alone removes from teachers the responsibility to evaluate their own work . |
| 14 | It has also been argued that a lifting of the exemption could induce spiteful and malicious allegations by wives , particularly where divorce proceedings were involved . |
| 15 | It has also been argued that the small mouths of the giants simply could not have downed enough food to support a warm-blooded metabolism , particularly plant food that needs a lot of processing before it becomes available as energy . |
| 16 | It has also been argued that the legal system enables the powerful to get away with exploiting other people without actually breaking the law . |
| 17 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
| 18 | But it has also been argued that the proprietary view extends , in theory and in practice , to public limited companies . |
| 19 | It has also been argued that the halting of peasant movement in the Ukraine and the extension to it in 1783 of the poll-tax , which doomed the Ukrainian peasant to serf status , were inspired by a desire to end the privileged position enjoyed by many border areas of the empire , and to some extent by the need to increase revenue , rather than by the extension of serfdom as a matter of policy . |
| 20 | It has also been argued that the dividend payment represents tangible evidence of management 's expectations which should be based on superior knowledge to that of investors . |
| 21 | It has also been argued that the highest diversity is found in elevated sites most protected from fluvial erosion . |
| 22 | It might reasonably be argued that the single most inflammatory portrayal of Jesus anywhere is in D. H. Lawrence 's The Man Who Dies , published more than fifty years ago , a miniature masterpiece in which Jesus is depicted as having what used to be called ‘ sexual congress ’ with a priestess of Isis in an Egyptian temple . |
| 23 | As it happens , the concrete evidence about marriage in the " 1910 sample " analysed in Chapter 6 ( those women in the trade in 1910 ) very largely relates to women who were aged about 18–28 during the Great War , and it could reasonably be argued that the war played such havoc with the marriage chances of this generation that it will have contained an unusually high proportion of women who never married . |
| 24 | It can also be argued that the economists ' justification for aid has never been its real rationale , but that political considerations of strategic security by the donors have conditioned its distribution and nature , in some cases even allowing military support to be classified as aid . |
| 25 | Yet it might also be argued that the major political parties ensured that , despite the attention which Mosley attracted , the fascists were going to be marginalized . |
| 26 | It might also be argued that the mandatory life sentence makes a substantial contribution to public safety . |
| 27 | It can also be argued that the error present in this data , given its crudity , would swamp any of the other data . |
| 28 | It might also be argued that the treatment of language in terms of sentences has been quite successful in revealing how language works , that within the sentence we can establish rules and constraints concerning what is and is not allowed , whereas beyond the sentence , such rules seem either to disintegrate or turn into rules of a different kind — social rules or psychological rules , which are not within the area of linguistic study at all . |
| 29 | It could also be argued that the power to tax should be assigned a value in a governmental balance sheet . |
| 30 | It could also be argued that the preparation and monitoring of cost targets for trades , work sections or individual sub-contractors should be treated as part of the management accounts . |