Example sentences of "[be] argue that [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has already been argued that physics is constructed through a series of dualities in which physics is rated positively , and other disciplines , chiefly the arts , are rated negatively . |
| 2 | It has often been argued that Marxism is largely based on a utopian ideology , functionalism on a ruling ideology . |
| 3 | However , it has also been argued that women are discriminated against by the agents of the law , just as they are in other areas of life . |
| 4 | In particular , it has been argued that blacks are innately inferior to whites in terms of intelligence . |
| 5 | Except in the mountainous Balkans , this did not prove possible : and it has more recently been argued that resistance was ‘ seldom effective , sometimes stultifying , frequently dangerous , and almost always too costly ’ . |
| 6 | Thus , it has been argued that photography is the quintessential surrealist art form , that photographs are like ‘ death masks ’ , like footprints in the sense of being ‘ imprints of the real ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 110 ) . |
| 7 | It has been argued that Williams was obsessed by the issue of slavery and that underlying this obsession lay a deep seated racial resentment . |
| 8 | It has been argued that supply is more likely to show a positive response to relative price increases which are thought to be temporary than those that are thought to be permanent . |
| 9 | Elsewhere it has been argued that ecosystems are ordered arrangements of matter in which energy inputs carry out work ( Stoddart , 1965 ) and that if the energy input is removed the structure will break down until the components are randomly arranged which with maximum entropy is the most probable state . |
| 10 | Moreover , it could be argued that prisoners are more at risk of further offences than probationers because of , first , their commission of relatively more serious offences , and second , their more extensive and therefore more entrenched criminal careers . |
| 11 | The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger . |
| 12 | In the light of what was to follow , it could be argued that Scapula was panicked into rash measures , excusable only as military necessities , but their effect on the Britons was to be as deplorable for them as for Rome . |
| 13 | Thus it may be argued that managers are more important than routine office staff since the latter are dependent on direction and organization from management . |
| 14 | It used to be argued that turbulence was necessary to ensure the oxygenation of the water and the continuation of the food supply , but it is now thought that the main role of turbulence is in getting rid of excess carbon dioxide . |
| 15 | Of course , it could be argued that purpose is not confined to use in a functional sense but also encompasses the enjoyment which the buyer can reasonably expect from his purchase . |
| 16 | The human resources director of a large UK wines and spirits business also suggested that once total costs were taken into account , it could be argued that headhunters were not necessarily more expensive than using home-grown methods . |
| 17 | Alternatively , as Æthelred had himself patronised his half-brother 's cult , it could be argued that Cnut was stressing the continuity of his regime with his predecessor 's , and generally enhancing the prestige of kingship . |
| 18 | It could be argued that integration is one of the few educational principles which has gained all-party political support . |
| 19 | In one sense it can be argued that generalizations are of little use . |
| 20 | Of course , it could be argued that ludism is , in its way , another interpretative strategy launched by the novelist : while conceding the liberating effect of viewing the literary text as an open and democratic discourse , Robbe-Grillet is again allocating a new role to the reader . |
| 21 | It could be argued that sharedealers were privileged . |
| 22 | So it can be argued that adoption is in fact a less successful aspect of child care policy than it appears . |
| 23 | It could be argued that Blast was a miscalculation all round , even for Wyndham Lewis . |
| 24 | It could then be argued that ventriloquy is a better metaphor for fiction than criticism , because in criticism there are object texts which are not voiceless . |
| 25 | It might be argued that Cheshire was untypical : there was no great local lord , and as a palatinate jurisdiction it was specially linked to the Crown . |
| 26 | Alison Kelly sees at least four distinct senses in which it can be argued that science is masculine . |
| 27 | It could be argued that telepathy is a desirable characteristic for the subordinates of such a person ! |
| 28 | Paradoxically , these abolitionists were arguing that fear was supposed to induce reason and humanity and provoke policies which squared reform with stability and both with the interest of the nation . |
| 29 | In Africa , it is argued that man was using fire at least 50–55 000 years ago , taking coals from camp to camp and using the fire to smoke out bees from their nests in honey-hunting , or driving game . |
| 30 | If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority . |