Example sentences of "argues [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He argues the company has tried to monopolise the market by convincing customers that its relational database management system is effectively the computer , making it appear that all other functions and tasks the user may want to perform are bound tightly to the database — requirements that can only be met by other Oracle products .
2 Bagi concedes opting for Transvik software was a risk , given the company 's small size , but argues the advantage is that the firm is dependent on the success of the contract and is more willing to share its expertise than Logica might have been .
3 This column argues the South African officials have been helping to professionalise the game by creating elite city clubs which cream off the best resources at the expense of the poorer , less fashionable sides .
4 In a robust assessment of the relative merits of joining the exchange rate mechanism , it argues the ERM will not provide a ‘ soft option ’ compared with other methods of slowing down the economy .
5 In a robust assessment of the relative merits of joining the exchange rate mechanism , it argues the ERM will not provide a ‘ soft option ’ compared with other methods of slowing down the economy .
6 C. I. Lewis ( 1946 , ch. 8 ) also argues the phenomenalist case .
7 Wallaby skipper Nick Farr-Jones argues the toss with Scottish referee Ken McCartney — but will his competitive instincts see him through a gruelling campaign as the World Champions take on South Africa this summer ?
8 Which ? argues the Government should investigate the whole licensing system so key issues including opening hours , family admission and cafe-style licenses could be aired .
9 Sir : Professor Gomme ( letter , 3 October ) argues the case for the exact recreation of the interior of Uppark most cogently ; and certainly , careful and committed reconstruction , such as can be seen at Chatelherault where Hamilton district council has faithfully , and against all the odds , achieved a marvellous reproduction of William Adam 's hunting lodge for the fifth Duke of Hamilton , is not to be jeered at .
10 The former argues the case of viewing relations between central and local government in terms of tensions generated by uneven development .
11 A consultative paper published in August argues the case for the extension of this principle ( with safeguards ) to all areas of practice work .
12 Emil Brunner , the Swiss theologian , argues the case forcefully as follows :
13 He then argues the case that teacher professionality is both an input and output of the school .
14 Nevertheless , she argues the case for continuing to set the micro-political perspective in the context of a macro-political explanation of social relations .
15 Michael Gilsenan argues the case against the war .
16 She argues the case through a reading of a history painting ‘ Zeuxis Choosing his Models for the Painting of Helen of Troy ’ of the late 1770s in which one of the female figures stands behind the classical Greek artist and herself reaches for the chalk to start on the blank canvas beside her , and through a self portrait ‘ Angelica Kauffman Hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting ’ ( 1794 ) .
17 In his letter to Sir Walter Ralegh explaining The Faerie Queene , Spenser argues the work is designed to ‘ fashion a gentleman or noble person ’ .
18 Yet the very specially acute sense of deprivation found in the shorter of the two versions to be examined here argues the recognition of the possibility of the presence of just such joy ; " absence is not non-existence , and we are therefore entitled to repeat , " " come , come , come , come : " " " and both Rolle 's meditations on the Passion are such powerful works precisely because he enacts a sense of the gap between the body of sin and the joy of God and a longing to close it through penitence and love .
19 There are two quite different sorts of manager in Hanson , argues the study , written soon after the firm bought the Imperial Group in 1986 .
20 Finally he argues the need ‘ to bang the heads of union leaders together ’ to resolve these issues .
21 He argues the need for : a written constitution which is compatible with the rule of law ; the separation of legislative , executive , and judicial power so that a system of checks and balances will be in place ; a bicameral legislature , to provide an additional check ; a federal system of government to protect against big , centralized government ; a bill of rights which will protect a sphere of private autonomy ; judicial review to ensure an effective mechanism of protection ; and specific limitations on legislative and administrative discretion .
22 Editor , — In her review of methods of assessing students Stella Lowry argues the need for methods of assessment that match learning objectives .
23 Make no mistake , argues the broker , the regulatory regime for utilities will get tougher under the Conservatives .
24 In those societies , argues the anthropologists , people related to each other had obligations to each other , solely because they could trace links through parenthood or marriage .
25 Something new was developing in the 19th century , argues the historian Albert Hourani , something ‘ created by the vast expansion of the European mind and imagination so as to appropriate all existing things . ’
26 The threat to internal security , the judicial system , police and even its democracy is just too great , ’ argues a US narcotics official .
27 The fact of these men 's having been guided argues a body of local botanical knowledge as early as the first part of the 17th century .
28 Household waste should be incinerated to generate electricity and provide heat , rather than be dumped in landfill sites , argues a report by Britain 's Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution .
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