Example sentences of "argue that [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German biologist August Weismann , writing at the end of the last century , argued that two independent processes of cell division start from the fertilized egg . |
| 2 | He argued that two bodies of the same material but different weights would fall at different speeds . |
| 3 | In 1952 , Stevens argued that two inscriptions from Hadrian 's Wall , recording building operations by a levy from the Civitas Durotrigum Lendinienses , indicated a subdivision of the tribal territory , and that Ilchester was the obvious candidate for it– administrative centre , given its identification with the Lindinis of the Ravenna Cosmography . |
| 4 | Godelier argued that two principal contradictions are formulated by Marx : the first being that between the capitalist class and the working class , the second — the basic contradiction — being that between the development and socialization of the productive forces and the private ownership of the means of production . |
| 5 | Likewise , in reviewing Our Towns , the journal Social Work argued that two things stood out about its analysis of the evacuation experience — ‘ our failure to educate our girls as home-makers , in spite of seventy years of compulsory education , and our failure to provide our people with the raw material for home-making ’ . |
| 6 | Emile Durkheim ( 1960 : vol. 1 , ch. 2 ; see below , Chapter 3 ) argued that one function of the criminal law and punishment was to reinforce the conscience collective of society and thereby ensure that members of society continued to refrain from crime . |
| 7 | First , Marx and Engels argued that one of the reasons why capitalism would be destroyed was due to the internal contradictions of the system itself . |
| 8 | Following Morris ( 1939 ) , however , Wimsatt argued that one of the distinguishing characteristics of poetry was to exploit the ‘ iconic or directly imitative ’ powers of language ( Wimsatt 1958 : 1 15 ) . |
| 9 | They argued that one role of the state in capitalist society is to save capital from itself . |
| 10 | Mr Cook argued that 10 years of Thatcherism had been forced on most people , who had never voted Conservative , and that many of those who opposed PR in the Labour Party wanted to use the same undemocratic power ‘ to ram socialism down the throats of a majority who did n't vote for it ’ . |
| 11 | In the discussion which followed the Zuwaya argued that five hours had passed and they had elected no one : in view of the late hour and the irregularities ( another Magharba member of the local Assembly , doubling as an electoral officer , was suspected of cheating and was escorted out by police ) it would be better to hold the elections another day . |
| 12 | Indeed it has been argued that 1945 to 1951 was government by committee — hundreds of them — rather than Government by Cabinet . |
| 13 | It was argued that 5 per cent on paper would mean nearer 8 or 9 per cent in reality through wage-drift effects . |
| 14 | Within the State Department it has been argued that two competing strategies — one ‘ Asian-oriented ’ and the other ‘ Europe-oriented ’ — had emerged and that the critical question was whether the US should have insisted on French concessions to Vietnamese nationalism as a condition of US support . |
| 15 | It could be argued that one reason why the cities have lost so many jobs and contain so many unemployed is that they are over-represented by sectors of the economy that have declined nationally — the cities merely reflecting national trends . |
| 16 | It could be argued that one of the reasons for the social division in the area might be the fact that those in charge of the paraphernalia of research did in a sense predefine conflict in this way . |
| 17 | He has often argued that one of Microsoft 's key competitive advantages is precisely that his firm is not like the old computer giants , offering customers everything from chips and computers to software and service contracts . |
| 18 | It will be argued that one of the central features of the business company is the way in which it centralizes the authority to manage the capital which it aggregates from its investors in the hands of corporate managers . |
| 19 | It will be argued that one of these types of variation involves the selection , by the context , of different units of sense , while the other type is a matter of contextual modification of a single sense . |
| 20 | Babbage had argued that one of the main reasons for the cheapness of manufactured articles was |
| 21 | Moreover , it can be argued that MDC 's revised strategy , focusing upon leisure and tourism , supplies jobs better suited to the skills of the local population than the London Docklands emphasis on service sector growth . |
| 22 | In his excellent review of studies of ‘ what managers do ’ , Hales has argued that three areas of difficulty may be encountered in the published research evidence on managerial work , viz : |
| 23 | Erm by nineteen forty eight erm the Communist Party had argued that three conditions had to be there for land reform to take place and that was that how that the area had to be militarily stable , the majority of peasants erm rich peasants had to be mobilized er had to want to be demanding land reform and the Party cadres there had to be adequate in numbers and quality . |
| 24 | Both had argued that three of the dogs were in fact American Staffordshire terriers while the other was a stray . |
| 25 | The liberal-historians , on the other hand , whilst being generally more sceptical of the extent of permissiveness , nevertheless argue that 1960s Britain was characterised by a greater degree of freedom , the limited nature of which is nonetheless guaranteed by law . |
| 26 | Fothergill , Gudgin , Kitson and Monk ( 1986 ) argue that one locational characteristic above all has been responsible for the relative decline of cities , and that is the problem of availability of land . |
| 27 | Harrison and Mehta are more convincing when they argue that one precondition for a long-term settlement in Afghanistan based on a stricter interpretation of non-alignment could be a broad Great Power or regional understanding on the neutralisation of Southwest Asia . |
| 28 | Mr McCrystal , 68 , of Langlands Road , Govan , appeared at many meetings and on television to argue that thousands of workers who had been exposed to asbestos were now being denied justice . |
| 29 | By the late 1820s Geoffroy was arguing that one animal form could be transformed into another by natural processes — not by the accumulation of slight modifications , but by a sudden switching of the growth process so that the development of the individual proceeded in a new direction to mature as a new modification of the basic pattern . |
| 30 | On May 12th , the Centre for the Continuing Study of the Californian Economy ( CCSCE ) released an optimistic study , arguing that two-thirds of the state 's economic base is built on four sectors that are thriving : foreign trade , high technology , professional services and entertainment/tourism . |