Example sentences of "have argued that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In work looking at the labour markets of Los Angeles and New York , Sassen ( 1989 ) has argued that economic growth creates both wealth and poverty . |
| 2 | Indeed , David Underdown has argued that rural sports and recreations became more common after 1660 than ever before . |
| 3 | The country 's nuclear lobby has argued that alternative energy sources are either not available or too expensive and Semenyuk told a parliamentary debate on the government 's economic reform programme that : " Experts say that after the introduction of safety measures the plant is among the safest , and not only in Ukraine . " |
| 4 | For example , Hannan ( 1969 ) found that the number of young people in an area tended to increase outmigration , as the more able young left to follow the kind of careers not available in rural areas , though Grafton ( 1982 ) has argued that young people do not outmigrate from remote rural areas at a faster rate than their counterparts in less remote rural areas , and that any decline in such areas is due to lower levels of immigration , rather than higher rates of outmigration . |
| 5 | Richard Dawkins has argued that individual organisms do not survive from one generation to the next , while on the whole their genes do . |
| 6 | The government has argued that many schools consistently secure good order ‘ not simply by a regime of sanctions and rewards but more broadly by creating within the school … . positive attitudes to good behaviour ’ . |
| 7 | Gumperz ( 1977 ) , for example , has argued that such variables can be used to invoke domains of interpretation , e.g. to mark transitions from chat to business . |
| 8 | Rivière ( 1984 : 4 ) has argued that such informality is a product of the emphasis by the Guianese Amerindian upon the value of individualism . |
| 9 | Blunt ( 1989 ) has argued that all organizations have to find some way of achieving solutions to perennial problems . |
| 10 | Phillipson ( 1982 ) has argued that older workers form a ‘ reserve ’ army of labour which can be recruited in times of labour shortage and discarded during periods of depression . |
| 11 | Nicholas Garnham has argued that this provision of a wide-ranging repertoire also has an economic logic . |
| 12 | The sociologist Christine Delphy has argued that this assumption is not simply a mistake or a reasonable rule of thumb that has now become outmoded , but an ideological manoeuvre which obscures the real workings of patriarchal societies . |
| 13 | Although the present Conservative government would claim to be concerned about unemployment , it has argued that falling unemployment can only be achieved by ( a ) reducing the rate of inflation , since this would raise the real value of a given level of money spending in the economy , and ( b ) stimulating the operation of markets , especially the labour market , so that changes in the relative price of labour can come about more easily and thus ‘ price people into jobs ’ . |
| 14 | It is even harder to assess the social impact , and although Bollom ( 1978 ) has argued that local attitudes to second-home owners depend on the structure of the local community , and that antipathy to second-home owners ironically tends to decline with increasing percentages of second homes , another study ( Downing and Dower , 1972 , 32 ) has argued that : |
| 15 | The government has argued that commercial fishing on the coast has declined dramatically . |
| 16 | Capra ( 1979 ) , himself a physicist , has argued that most physicists , despite the discoveries of twentieth-century physics , are trapped in a pre-twentieth-century way of looking at the world . |
| 17 | Frank Pearce has argued that organised crime in the USA is dominated by big business ; and William Chambliss , in a detailed study of crime in Seattle , Washington , has demonstrated the numerous interconnections between organised crime and the ruling groups in society . |
| 18 | Purseglove has argued that Indian crops were known in China 4000 BP and African ones in India and vice versa a thousand years later . |
| 19 | In his excellent review of studies of ‘ what managers do ’ , Hales has argued that three areas of difficulty may be encountered in the published research evidence on managerial work , viz : |
| 20 | Tags has argued that conventional melody/accompaniment textures signify the relationship of individuals ( foreground ) to their environment ( background ) ( Tags 1979 : 123–4 ; 142–3 ) . |
| 21 | Palmer ( 1985 : 527 ) has argued that these quasi-government organisations ' , ‘ being relatively independent of normal public service rules , … have a greater flexibility in operations and decision-making ’ . |
| 22 | However , despite this evidence , prosecution would have been political suicide since the defendants might have argued that civil servants and certain government ministers knew of the oil sanctions-busting arrangements and therefore the company considered their actions , although technically illegal , were informally condoned by governmental officials . |
| 23 | In such cases , the district treasurer would have argued that financial control over the hospital remained with the traditional departmental budgets . |
| 24 | Rühe had argued that new leaders were needed who would mark a clear break with the past and would show full commitment to reform . |
| 25 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 26 | Yet both parties had considerably advanced public expenditure , particularly on social policies , to the point where some economists had argued that this kind of expenditure had become an inflationary force , limiting the scope for new wealth-creating private investment . |
| 27 | The defendant had argued that this information , ie the knowledge that the combination of the two ingredients produced an effective drier could not be protected by an injunction since the knowledge of that combination was knowledge which the second defendant must inevitably have taken away from the plaintiffs when he left their employment and that he could not proceed to expunge that knowledge from his mind . |
| 28 | Erm by nineteen forty eight erm the Communist Party had argued that three conditions had to be there for land reform to take place and that was that how that the area had to be militarily stable , the majority of peasants erm rich peasants had to be mobilized er had to want to be demanding land reform and the Party cadres there had to be adequate in numbers and quality . |
| 29 | It had argued that adequate pension support for the elderly would encourage them to retire and thus increase younger workers ' employment prospects . |
| 30 | Long before the appearance of Circular 10/65 a small number of primary school teachers had argued that secondary school selection should not determine the primary school curriculum . |