Example sentences of "he argue that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The image was well established ; and it is hardly surprising that when , in 1521 , the canny and obsessively fair-minded scholar John Major produced his book entitled A History of Greater Britain , in which he argued that better relations with England would make good sense , for political and economic reasons , the plea fell on ears deafened by the awareness that a little nation had fought off a monster by courage and tenacity .
2 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 .
3 He argued that two bodies of the same material but different weights would fall at different speeds .
4 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 .
5 He argued that Labour policy-making , though democratic in concept , was defective in practice .
6 He argued that greater emphasis needed to be placed on the practical applications of scientific work if Britain 's economic downturn were to be reversed .
7 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 .
8 His position was itself controversial since he argued that former Stasi members should be integrated into the police force and the Interior Ministry to avoid their becoming a potential terrorist threat .
9 The theory was first put forward by H R Buchanan in his Manual of Psychometry in 1889 , when he argued that all objects contain the history of the world because they are connected to the Akashic Chronicles .
10 In this book he argued that all life should be a preparation for dying .
11 He argued that sociological explanations of action should begin with ‘ the observation and theoretical interpretation of the subjective ‘ states of minds ’ of actors ' .
12 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 .
13 In addition , he argued that legalizing adoption was against the teaching of ‘ the church ’ .
14 He argued that British car users meet only 27 per cent of the real costs which their vehicles impose on society , constituting a huge burden on the economy .
15 It could he argued that Latin America offers a good example of this .
16 He argued that social progress towards a free-enterprise society was inevitable and saw progressive evolution as a useful foundation upon which to build a philosophy of cosmic development that would include the human race .
17 Though he argued that any attempt to lay down rigid rules for classifying applications would be doomed to failure' , Dobry thought that guidance should be given in a national code of practice .
18 Secondly , he argued that these consumption processes are increasingly provided by the state in a collectivized form , since they become too expensive , especially at times of economic crisis , for private firms to supply .
19 He argued that these publications were the precursors of the flood of artistic , intellectual and political creativity that accompanied the move towards colonial independence .
20 Eschewing strategic analysis in favour of a more polemical approach he argued that these concessions were to be used as ‘ trans-shipping points for American combat units that are to carry out punitive operations against the peoples of the Near and Middle East , as well as in Africa ’ .
21 He argued that fewer houses at the Cleveland end of the line would be affected by overhead lines than at present because 31km of existing pylons would be demolished as part of the scheme .
22 He argued that either symbol was used whenever it fell more easily to the hand .
23 Engels discusses certain objections to Morgan 's scheme , especially the presence of long-term pairing among animals , but he argues that such evidence from non-human animals is irrelevant to human systems .
24 He argues that such procedures and the decisions about a child 's acceptability within mainstream education which may follow from them , are underpinned by competing philosophies about a child 's acceptability as a human being .
25 With a side-look at the American inner cities , he argues that collective provision must be linked not just with the needs of the have-nots , but ‘ with all people who are able to exercise their freedom only within a cooperative society imbued with a sense of fairness ’ .
26 He argues that each form of kinship has its distinctive form of arrangements .
27 He argues that young gelada males , living in all-male groups , suffer from sexual deprivation .
28 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 .
29 Shaw ( 1979b ) has suggested one such model of housing deprivation in rural areas ; he argues that poor housing , inappropriate housing or inaccessible housing is mainly a consequence of other types of deprivation which can act cumulatively , including opportunity deprivation ( in terms of jobs , education , recreation and health ) and mobility deprivation ( in terms of poor transport and inaccessibility , which ‘ ration ’ opportunities ) .
30 The idea of the Umwelt has re-emerged in ethology in Griffin 's book The question of animal awareness ( 1976 ) , in which he argues that recent research in animal orientation , navigation , and social communication implies cognitive processes of a high order and even mental experiences of them .
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