Example sentences of "[pers pn] argue that [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I argued that drama is not in itself direct , that indeed its power lies in its seeming directness . |
| 2 | In fact Gittins sees women as individuals who use such structures to maximize their own resources as well as feeling responsibility to support others , and she argues that women are involved in an informal economy to a far greater extent than are men . |
| 3 | But in 1.4 we argued that monism is more suited to opaque than transparent styles of writing , and the same point may be made about pluralism . |
| 4 | In Chapter 14 we argued that people are typically risk-averse and dislike risk . |
| 5 | They argued that sinners were quite unable to attain salvation through their own merits or through the long process of confession , repentance , and partial purification , and that justification or redemption was obtainable only at a stroke through the gift of faith from God made possible by Christ 's sacrifice . |
| 6 | They argued that Darlington was much nearer the busiest trunk road the A1(M) as well as the main railway line and Teeside Airport . |
| 7 | They argued that episcopacy was divinely instituted , and emphasized the divine sanction behind royal authority and the duty upon all subjects to obey monarchs without question . |
| 8 | They argue that goods are used to make ‘ visible and stable the categories of culture ’ ( 1980 : 59 ) . |
| 9 | They argue that Egyptians are too passive to revolt on their own . |
| 10 | They argue that workers are individuals with irreducibly distinct interests , based on their age , sex , skills , and ethnicity . |
| 11 | They argue that Griffiths is undeniably a solid scrummager on the loose-head and they acknowledge that , largely depending on the nature of the game in question and the particular opposition , there are still plenty of matches where that can prove to be invaluable . |
| 12 | Like John Hughlings Jackson , with his Perceptual Release Theory discussed in the context of hypnagogic hallucinations , they argue that dreaming is the outcome of the cortical integration of sensory inputs over which it has no control . |
| 13 | They argue that children are dashing , impulsive and playful ; to try to eliminate this would be to attempt to deny their stage of development . |
| 14 | He unexpectedly appended to this a ‘ Post Script containing remarks on the State of Modern Sicily ’ in which his sympathy with contemporary trends in secular rationalist thought led him to argue that Sicily was in need of drastic modernization along liberal and democratic lines . |
| 15 | He argued that Yeltsin is in political trouble now specifically because he and other democrats have demonstrated their commitment to reform by expanding civil liberties , cutting the military budget and freeing prices . |
| 16 | In his first memorandum as Minister of Internal Affairs he argued that nobles were justified in saying that the emancipation threatened their economic interests . |
| 17 | He argued that consultants were tending to stay put by the mid-1980s because of the much higher start-up costs now involved in setting up an executive search firm , which he estimated as at least £250 000 , or ten times the figure he invested back in 1973 . |
| 18 | He argued that Realism is based on three foundation stones , all to be found in the writings of Machiavelli . |
| 19 | He argued that society is at bottom a system of organization for producing the goods on which people depend for their life . |
| 20 | He argued that criminals were physically distinguishable by , for example , large jaws , high cheek bones , extra toes and so on . |
| 21 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |
| 22 | He argued that societies are stratified in addition by status differences , and by party or political differences . |
| 23 | He argued that Freud was dealing only with one type of human society , namely , the patriarchal authoritarian type . |
| 24 | It argued that work is continually de-skilled and degraded through the interaction of technical change and international patterns of capital accumulation . |
| 25 | In it , he argues that women are free to be as nasty , rude , insulting and vicious as they like about men , but the reverse is not true . |
| 26 | From a close study of Bristol , not to any great extent a factory town , he argues that regularity was already a feature of urban labour by 1750 . |
| 27 | He argues that Britain was wrong to spend so much on accelerators . |
| 28 | He argues that Y-cells are so rare in the retina they can not possibly contribute to visual perception because their resolution , by themselves , is inadequate to convey any useful information . |
| 29 | In relation to history , for example , he argues that history is a world of thought or ideas and not a world of fact since nothing is simply ‘ given ’ . |
| 30 | He argues that humans are unique in their ability ‘ to identify with any conspecific and feel sympathy with him ’ , and that this widely ignored fact provides the necessary bridge between the disciplines . |