Example sentences of "argue that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MacDonald ( 1978 ) argued that no genuine consensus is possible ; anything so called would represent only the views of the most powerful and reinforce their hegemony . |
| 2 | In a lecture in 1983 he argued that a civil servant who could answer ‘ yes ’ to the question ‘ Is he one of us ? ’ should retire and become a party politician . |
| 3 | Popper argued that a non-relative form of knowledge was available through scientific method which was rational and not determined by the history of culture . |
| 4 | They argued that a communist victory in northern Indo-China would help to relieve the economic problems of communist China ( long-term Chinese weakness being an important assumption in American policy ) . |
| 5 | He strongly applauded the decision by Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor , to raise interest rates last week , and argued that a sharper rise of two percentage points might have been more immediately effective . |
| 6 | Ernest Bevin 's 1933 articles in The New Clarion , later published as My Plan for 2,000,000 Workless , argued that a new state pension of £1 per week ( single person ) and £1 15s 0d per week ( married couple ) paid at the age of 65 to all earning up to £1,000 per annum , on condition of retirement from work , would induce withdrawal from the labour market of the estimated 350,000 existing pensioners aged 65–9 working in industry . |
| 7 | They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate . |
| 8 | A planner , Colin Buchanan , who during the 1950s had had somewhat of a chequered career as an inspector in the Ministry of Town and Country Planning ( Bruton , 1981 ) , argued that a new situation had arisen which called for a fresh approach . |
| 9 | And a survey by the Association of British Chambers of Commerce argued that a deepening recession is hitting London hardest . |
| 10 | The Labour Party argued that a two-thirds majority of those voting , or a simple majority of those on the register , should be required , and the National Union of Teachers went even further with its suggestion that opting out should be allowed only if two-thirds of those on the register approved it . |
| 11 | IT IS now a little more than three years since four biologists caused a minor uproar among molecular geneticists by publishing in Nature two papers in which they argued that a substantial proportion of the DNA of animal cells may exist for no higher purpose than its own propagation . |
| 12 | In Chapter 9 we argued that a private monopolist would make higher profits if it were possible to price-discriminate , charging different prices to customers whose demand curves were effectively distinct . |
| 13 | Gramsci argued that a proletarian movement which successfully challenges the domination of capital must not concentrate attention solely on economic or political organization . |
| 14 | Mr Chance argued that a sustainable UK coal industry needs the financial support of opencast coal , which last year alone produced a profit of £171 million for the British Coal Corporation and , over the past 50 years , has contributed less than £3.7 billion in profits . |
| 15 | But MITI argued that a domestic industry should be nurtured because of its critical importance , and won . |
| 16 | Mr. Gardiner for Woolwich accepted that none of the cases directly vouched the principle but argued that a detailed analysis of authority from the 18th century to date supported its existence . |
| 17 | He argued that a fundamental conflict was taking place during the period of social modernisation . |
| 18 | Although some Protestants , such as Bishop Hooper , argued that a single-roomed effect was more appropriate to the new Protestant liturgy and the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers , the compartmental interior of the church with a separate nave and chancel divided by a huge rood screen was usually left unaltered , and in many parishes ministers chose to use different parts of the church for distinct types of corporate worship : the nave for matins and evensong , the side chapels for weekday services , and the chancel and sanctuary for Holy Communion . |
| 19 | His figure , which was based on a tally kept by victim support groups , was criticized by other experts , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before such a large number of people could develop cancer . |
| 20 | It was dismissed by other experts , however , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before sufficient people developed cancer . |
| 21 | In Chapter Three I argued that a postmodernist culture that foregrounded ‘ desire ’ signalled somehow a renunciation of signification . |
| 22 | A number argued that an outright ban should be introduced on the holding of client money by sole practitioners . |
| 23 | To the followers of the ‘ classical economists ’ , who argued that the industrialized state would make the greatest possible contribution to public welfare if competition were to remain unshackled , the period between the middle of the nineteenth century and the present day has been marked by increasing government interference with the economy . |
| 24 | c ) The impact of the recession — many argued that the recent increase in the number of defaults was linked directly to the current recession and to the cut-throat price competition between solicitors which this had precipitated . |
| 25 | Soler argued that the higher altitude of the Guadix area ( 900–1100m above sea level ) had prevented cuckoos from colonizing it in the past , as the species seems to favour lowland below 500m ( but see ref. 9 ) . |
| 26 | They argued that the higher recall scores in the earlier experiment could have occurred because of more efficient storage of the passage at input , or because of better reconstruction of the material at recall . |
| 27 | Although Moscovitch argued that the right hemisphere showed little or no language ability , other workers have since been less dismissive . |
| 28 | His government argued that the small temples which it had demolished were on land belonging to the state tourist department . |
| 29 | In his classic manual , Working Lads ' Clubs , Russell argued that the principal aim of clubs was ‘ to provide youths of the poorer classes with an opportunity of becoming happier , healthier , and better citizens than they are likely to become if they spend their leisure in loafing about the streets ’ . |
| 30 | Launching his bid for B.A.T Industries last year , Sir James Goldsmith argued that the tobacco-to-insurance group 's headquarters team subtracted , rather than added , value . |