Example sentences of "[be] argue that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Whilst it has been argued that such firms need financial and general business aid , if they are to fulfil their potential on a timely basis , little is known of their accounting/financial practices and needs .
2 It has been argued that such courses come somewhere around the foundation or specific stage in most people 's educational development , although the increasing proportions of mature students must make us wary of too linear a model .
3 Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) .
4 It has been argued that these policies were adopted at Moscow 's instigation .
5 Technical difficulties aside , it has been argued that these provisions will not make any appreciable difference to the welfare of victims for , except in the most notorious of cases , most authors receive very small amounts indeed from publication .
6 It has been argued that these divisions within the working class are unreconcilable and prevent it acting as a strong , united , radical force .
7 It can be argued that such mothers may not develop protective IgG antibodies and may continue to carry the same strain of group B streptococcus .
8 It could be argued that such questions are of little value as respondents may be unwilling to label themselves as being in poor health .
9 It can be argued that such schemes should be embodied in statutes so as to put their administration and the principles of compensation on a firm legal footing .
10 It will be argued that such factors may have had considerable influence on what are widely believed to have been exclusively ‘ political ’ decisions .
11 It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do .
12 It can be argued that such tests are gender biased , both in their questions , which do not draw on social , female-oriented spheres of knowledge , and in their multiple choice format , which , by demanding a single answer from a set of often mutually exclusive possibilities , does not allow for women 's interactive , socially responsive way of solving problems .
13 If there are exclusively private events , in the sense that they are in principle , and not just empirically , inaccessible to more than one observer , it might be argued that such events could not be intelligibly claimed , let alone shown to be , subject to any laws , and this means that no rational explanatory model could be constructed for them .
14 Given the distribution of older people throughout the different medical specialisms it could be argued that all doctors ( and nurses ) should receive some training in the main aspects of geriatric medicine , with its emphasis upon rehabilitation and the role of multi-disciplinary care and assessment .
15 Although we have introduced the concept of a power culture from the work of Handy , it can be argued that all organisations are really concerned with power .
16 It may be argued that many forms of ‘ fringe medicine ’ are not dependent upon any belief in any religion or ‘ god ’ .
17 It can be argued that many projects fall into this category , perhaps usefully called development engineering .
18 With the move towards disintermediation , it could be argued that many banks are driven to taking on less credit-worthy customers , with associated increases in credit risk .
19 In primitive societies with small , self-sufficient units there was no differentiation between centre and periphery , and it could be argued that many peasants in Russia remained at this level of perception during NEP .
20 It may also be argued that some limits to growth , which Hirsch ( 1977 ) called ‘ social limits ’ , are already operating .
21 It may be argued that some men , in the heat of the moment , may genuinely be mistaken .
22 It could be argued that these groups were formed as much for sociability as for making money , being made up of friends or acquaintances , but at any event their reasons fell short of promoting definite artistic programmes .
23 It can be argued that these offences may be no less traumatic for the victim than ‘ conventional ’ rape , and therefore that any attempt to classify sexual offences by reference to their seriousness should place these forms of sexual assault in the highest category .
24 It may be argued that these proposals amount to no more than state capitalism .
25 It could be argued that these provisions would justify allowing any person to challenge exercises of power A , but also applying a more restrictive standing rule ( perhaps something like ‘ special interest ’ ) to challenges to exercises of power B on the ground that Parliament had intended the government body in question to be the prime guardian of the public interest in the exercise of power B.
26 There may be some sense of cohesion in the North-East , Yorkshire , Lancashire , or the South-West , but even if this sentiment is totally lacking in the rest of England , it can be argued that these areas would be better administered by a series of regional ministries .
27 It could be argued that these criteria are too rigid .
28 It can be argued that these associations serve as shelters and nurseries for mites , which , in turn , eat herbivorous arthropods and pathogens , a general theory put forward by Lundstrom over a century ago .
29 It could be argued that these opinions would in any event have prevailed .
30 It can be argued that these tests are a reliable indicator of performance when tested under controlled conditions .
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