Example sentences of "be argued [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has just been argued that a thorough analysis of the market attractiveness and competitive strengths of an SBU ( possibly based upon a Porter analysis ) , should provide more insight into the future covariability of the SBU and total market returns . |
| 2 | It has been argued that a new spatial division of labour has been created which has changed the relative attractiveness of locations ( Massey and Meegan 1982 , Massey 1984 ) . |
| 3 | It has been argued that a de-clawed cat can learn to use its teeth more when grooming . |
| 4 | It has been argued that a special , hybrid type of right should be introduced for computer programs ; something between a patent and copyright . |
| 5 | Despite the inherent difficulties in comparative work it has been argued that an international perspective has always been implicit to some extent in the study of industrial relations . |
| 6 | It has been argued that an appropriate definition of central in this context would be information related to risks and potential risks in a situation . |
| 7 | It has been argued that the spiritual prestige of the papacy was tarnished by its use of temporal strength to achieve its ends , but that is in many ways a modern concept . |
| 8 | It has also been argued that the small mouths of the giants simply could not have downed enough food to support a warm-blooded metabolism , particularly plant food that needs a lot of processing before it becomes available as energy . |
| 9 | It has thus been argued that the general structure of all colliding plane wave solutions is as illustrated in Figure 8.6 with with the possible exception that , for some solutions , the curvature singularity in region IV is replaced by a Cauchy horizon . |
| 10 | It has been argued that the communist utopia is not a scientific prediction but merely a projection of the ‘ wish-images ’ of those who adopt a Marxist position . |
| 11 | It has been argued that the existing investment in interactive video may act as a barrier to the use of other future multimedia platforms in training . |
| 12 | It has also been argued that the legal system enables the powerful to get away with exploiting other people without actually breaking the law . |
| 13 | Clearly , gifts of precious metal were something in which Cnut delighted , and it has recently been argued that the magnificently-illustrated gospel books which have survived from this period , and others which have not , were commissioned by Cnut and Emma for donation to favoured individuals and churches . |
| 14 | It has been argued that the ultimate object of most conventions is that the rules of government should accord with the wishes of the majority . |
| 15 | It has been argued that the present day focus of international law is upon disputes relating to parties ' interests in satisfying needs , and values , rather than upon formalistic attention to rights . |
| 16 | It has been argued that the present procedure for the passage of legislation does not provide effective scrutiny , that Parliament simply legitimises that which the Government has decreed . |
| 17 | It has been argued that the present law pays too great a regard to the need to preserve public order and does too little to facilitate peaceful protest , e.g. wide police powers to impose conditions to preserve the peace ; the restrictions on spontaneous demonstrations . |
| 18 | It has been argued that the limited success of children in referential communication tasks is due to a large extent to the tasks being extracted from a meaningful framework . |
| 19 | But it has also been argued that the proprietary view extends , in theory and in practice , to public limited companies . |
| 20 | In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey . |
| 21 | It has been argued that the conventional ‘ male breadwinner ’ earning a ‘ family wage ’ is being superseded by a new convention in which both male and female partners spend the major part of their potential working lives in employment . |
| 22 | It has been argued that the mass production element of Fordism was never as strongly developed in the UK as in , for instance , the United States . |
| 23 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
| 24 | Yet it has been argued that the British political system is ill-designed to allow the articulation of the interests of unpopular , minority groups . |
| 25 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 26 | It has been argued that the American economy is dependent for its survival on the maintenance of high levels of military spending . |
| 27 | It has been argued that the dilute nature of the nectar in such flowers deters some bee robbers that may be unable to concentrate it : the birds would prefer concentrated sugars . |
| 28 | Lord Morison said it had been argued that the unique and novel attempt by the Mullan family to establish something which the Crown had failed to do in a criminal case raised questions of general importance . |
| 29 | It has been argued that the sexual division of labour between husband and wife may be interpreted as the best way of maximising the welfare of the working class family , and certainly the struggle for a family wage benefited working class families to the extent that it raised the wages of the male breadwinner . |
| 30 | Yet it has already been argued that the marginal costs of the good will be a function of the number of people in the community , and therefore , relate to different numbers ( e.g. 100 , 200 , 300 residents in the community ) . |