Example sentences of "[pers pn] argue that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She argues that young children 's cognitive and linguistic abilities can be seen at their best in situations involving intentions , motives , or purposes — situations which make human sense . |
| 3 | Drawing on the re-evaluation of emotion characteristic of contemporary feminist theory and practice , she argues that feminist conceptions of emotion constitute a critique of dualist conceptions of mind found in much Western philosophy in the English-speaking world and elsewhere . |
| 4 | We argued that Western rulers had finally taken out against Saddam not because he was a monster but because he had broken loose and was no longer their monster . |
| 5 | We argue that lone mothers constitute the vast majority of those classified as unoccupied at both census and death registration . |
| 6 | They argued that existing maps and digitized files from them are unable to meet these needs at global or regional scale and only remote sensing could help in the short term : the availability of stereometric data from the French SPOT satellite has already led to proposals for automated creation of global digital elevation models with a spatial ( XY ) resolution of about 30 m ( Muller 1989 ) . |
| 7 | They argued that hemispheric differences only emerge at later stages of processing beyond immediate registration . |
| 8 | They argue that industrialized societies are characterized by a plurality of cultural goals and these vary systematically among individuals in different strata and many individuals in the lower strata have limited and realistic ambitions . |
| 9 | They argue that major innovations in products , or production techniques , are bunched together every fifty years or so and , when they occur , they have pervasive effects , generating a long boom which eventually peters out and turns into a slump . |
| 10 | In essence , they argue that tiny differences in the initial conditions of many systems can lead to widely different outcomes since the systems exhibit stochastic behaviour within a deterministic framework . |
| 11 | They argue that poetic aspects of style , like the more mundane ones just discussed , are a consequence of the speaker 's search for relevance . |
| 12 | They argue that isotopic variations in lavas produced over the past 100 million years by the Kerguelen mantle plume require a cycle time of much less than a thousand million years . |
| 13 | These ‘ social capital ’ arguments may have been what Titmuss meant when he argued that major wars increase governmental concern for women and children , and produce social policies to protect them . |
| 14 | However he argued that ancient woodlands were still under threat from new planting and new road developments — for example the proposed destruction of Oxleas Wood in south east London , to make way for a Thames crossing . |
| 15 | He argued that sociological explanations of action should begin with ‘ the observation and theoretical interpretation of the subjective ‘ states of minds ’ of actors ' . |
| 16 | It argued that public-sector resources were substantial , ‘ but efforts need to be pulled together more effectively , and brought to bear in the same place at the same time ’ ( ibid . |
| 17 | Like the ideologies of ruling groups , he argues that utopian ideologies are a way of seeing the world which prevents true insight and obscures reality . |
| 18 | He argues that experienced judges attached great significance to their previous knowledge of the work of individual authors in assessing the relevance of papers to their own line of enquiry . |
| 19 | He argues that differential rewards can ‘ encourage hostility , suspicion and distrust among the various segments of a society ’ . |
| 20 | He argues that capitalist societies remain polarized between two main classes : the ruling class and the working class . |
| 21 | Essentially , he argues that capitalist societies are prone to periodic fluctuations in profitability . |
| 22 | After the historical analysis Payne briefly reviews current themes which detrimentally affect the political position of these theories : he argues that psychodynamic approaches appear more embattled and wounded due to the voraciousness of the attack against them . |
| 23 | He argues that bad garages drive out good ones because the typical customer can not judge whether a service has been done properly , and it is difficult for him to check . |
| 24 | He argues that Marxist accounts assume that the phenomenon occurs solely due to the needs of corporations and their owners . |
| 25 | He argues that intellectual concepts are fundamentally arbitrary , and says indeed at one point , ‘ Ideas formulated by the pure intellect possess logical or potential truth only . ’ |
| 26 | Moscovici uses the concept in a particular sense when he argues that social representations are peculiar to modern societies , for they are a ‘ specifically modern social phenomenon ’ ( 1984 : 952–3 ) . |
| 27 | He argues that matrilineal troops of primates arise where the preferred primary foods such as ripe fruits occur in clumps , necessitating competition , and that coalitions of female kin increase the feeding possibilities for related individuals ( cf. |
| 28 | It argues that major efforts to improve the health and education of poor people , coupled with family planning programmes , are necessary to reduce fertility rates and thus population size . |
| 29 | There are a number of different versions of this concept but essentially it argues that capitalist societies are tending towards a set of relationships between social groups and between these groups and the state . |
| 30 | It argues that renewable energies are not developed enough for a higher goal , but if more money for research was made available , the future could be very different . |