Example sentences of "argue that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tissot 's famous treatise On Onania or A Treatise Upon the Disorders Produced by Masturbation ( 1760 ) argued that bodily illness resulted from the loss of semen , leading to general debility , consumption , deterioration of eyesight , digestive disorders , etc. , and the disturbance of the nervous system through increasing flow of blood to brain , distending nerves . |
| 2 | Coase ( 1937 ) argued that familiar tools of economic analysis could be used to explain why one system of organizing transactions would prevail over another . |
| 3 | In A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery ( 1760 ) , she argued that male practitioners lacked patience and sensitivity , and were too quick to resort to metal instruments , causing needless infant deaths . |
| 4 | 's ( 1965 ) three dimensions and in a survey of heads of household in Illinois , found that socioeconomic status generally accounted for more of the rural-urban variation than either occupation or residence , and then rejected Bealer 's approach when they argued that future work should concentrate on single-dimension variables . |
| 5 | Rather , Qaddafi argued that rational association of people was less valuable , less stable , intrinsically less just than association on natural bases ; and by ‘ natural ’ he meant ties of descent and kinship . |
| 6 | He argued that rational people drawing up a just social contract would only be willing to grant governments the power to punish to the extent that was necessary to protect themselves from the crimes of others . |
| 7 | There were those who argued that such action would alienate world opinion and sabotage the chances of a diplomatic solution . |
| 8 | As we have seen in a previous chapter , he argued that such an illusory growth could in fact mask a real decline in values and use-values . |
| 9 | But as we have seen , Bukharin argued that such a method was quite wrong , since it presupposed that the two sectors were wholly antagonistic , whereas they formed a contradictory unity , a living totality . |
| 10 | However , the Younger Committee argued that such a topic as privacy , which can be subject to rapid changes in social convention , was probably best not regulated on the basis of the slow build-up of case law , which would always tend to reflect the values of an earlier period rather than of contemporary society . |
| 11 | We argued that such statements reflect the growing consensus nationally about what constitutes good practice in the teaching of English . |
| 12 | Some authors argued that such feedback was the primary signal for hunger while others argued that the signal came from elsewhere . |
| 13 | He argued that such a philosophical position could not cope with the phenomena of dreams and especially hypnosis . |
| 14 | Indeed , in Pearlman v. Harrow School Governors ( C.A. , 1979 ) Lord Denning argued that such a distinction was sterile and should be discarded . |
| 15 | Others , like Dr Barclay , a staff surgeon-major , argued that such a system would destroy the men 's self-respect and counteract the good effects of environmental reforms , a position upheld in the report of the 1871 Royal Commission . |
| 16 | Both Christabel Pankhurst and Hamilton argued that such recent theories were deeply linked to male attitudes , which saw women as ‘ primarily created for the sexual gratification of men ’ . |
| 17 | Weber argued that such groups could overlap class distinctions eg. the present day Labour Party . |
| 18 | In reply , Rathbone argued that such feminists had overlooked the fact that ‘ some aspects of our whole social fabric [ are ] man-made through generations to suit masculine interests and glorify masculine standards ’ . |
| 19 | Thorndyke argued that such stories are easy to remember because they have a particular structure . |
| 20 | argued that such inferences are stored in memory along with the information explicitly contained in the passage , with the result that when subjects are given a recognition test they will falsely identify the inference as having occurred in the passage . |
| 21 | Later economists argued that such an economy would also be efficient in a precise sense . |
| 22 | The CBI and other industrial representatives argued that such incentives already existed in the form of the employee 's salary , the training undergone at the firm 's expense , and the provision of a suitable working environment . |
| 23 | Innocent 's imposition of an interdict was parried by the archbishop of Toledo who argued that such a sentence would only encourage heresy and the Muslims , but Innocent did not stop trying to break the marriage . |
| 24 | Industry argued that such a requirement would stymie its competitiveness , and that , in any case , changes in emissions from existing plants would only ever be small-scale . |
| 25 | They argued that such gifts could influence the buyer 's objectivity , and that they should be restricted to such nominal items as calendars , diaries , pens , etc . |
| 26 | Leaders of the COS argued that many charities were encouraging the ‘ demoralization ’ of the poor by handing out benefits in cash and kind too readily and with no attempt to ensure long-term improvement in the client 's condition . |
| 27 | In Britain , Owen and Mivart argued that many cases of evolution consisted of parallel lines of development within the same group , all driven in the same direction as though by an internally programmed force . |
| 28 | Finally , Mario Segre in one of the most brilliant of his early studies argued that many of the Italian scenes with Gauls — such as the frieze of Civita Alba in Picenum , which was discovered at the end of the last century — may represent a Celtic attack on the temple of Apollo and Artemis at Didyma near Miletus , which was sacked in 277/6 B.C. ( Studi Etruschi 8 ( 1934 ) , 137–42 ) . |
| 29 | He argued that many organisations ( especially those that were relatively long-lasting and dependent on leaderships for their organisation and continuance ) could be interpreted in terms of the transference of early childhood affections . |
| 30 | John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic . |