Example sentences of "argue that [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of those involved in compiling the report , Terence Lee of the University of Surrey , argued that recent Soviet legislation setting the maximum permitted dose of radiation as 0.5 rem above natural background level , was " absurdly low " , and set a dangerous precedent which , if followed by the UK , would compel the evacuation " of half of Cornwall " . |
| 2 | She argued that contemporary social reform was becoming too institutionalized and bureaucratic ; the present tendency was towards ‘ centralization of rule , to vast combinations , large institutions and uniformity of system ’ . |
| 3 | Beveridge argued that other social policies were necessary to underpin his insurance scheme . |
| 4 | The plaintiffs argued that certain specific projects would result in the loss of wildlife covered by the Act , and that therefore their own interests would be harmed . |
| 5 | In his 1917 work Parliament and Government in a Reconstructed Germany Weber argued that liberal representative government and elite theory could be reconciled . |
| 6 | He argued that Braque enhanced objects : |
| 7 | Tinbergen argued that rapid cultural change may have pushed human systems into an environment which is no longer that to which the species has adapted through evolution . |
| 8 | To the extent that a scientific speciality or discipline is bound together by the rules of an existing ‘ paradigm ’ defining the rules for ‘ puzzle-solving ’ with an existing ‘ normal science ’ , it has been argued that major scientific change often comes from outside the existing specialist group — not untypically through the ‘ migration ’ into the group of innovative outsiders . |
| 9 | It might be argued that other missing concepts in Pareto 's elite analysis are those of ‘ ideology ’ and ‘ organisation ’ . |
| 10 | It may be argued that regional industrial policy in the UK in the late twentieth century has aimed to maintain — some might say fossilize — the population distribution created on the coalfields in the early nineteenth century . |
| 11 | It may also be argued that Roman military advances effectively changed the artistic map of Italy . |
| 12 | It has , however , been argued that certain fundamental Acts of Parliament such as the Act of Union with Scotland 1707 and the European Communities Act 1972 could not be repealed as , in each case , Parliament which enacted the provision is no longer in existence in the same form but has reconstituted itself as a less powerful body . |
| 13 | Some have argued that international economic slumps , notably that after the oil-price rise in the early 1970s , imposed unacceptable constraints on the ability of weaker national economies — such as Britain 's — to support a comprehensive Welfare State ( Mishra , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | It is sometimes argued that international competitive pressures are the origins , directly or indirectly , of all the UK 's economic and employment problems . |
| 15 | At the other extreme are those who have argued that specific Protestant doctrines gave a direct and positive stimulus to scientific research . |
| 16 | ‘ Some people ’ had argued that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide had serious implications for the climate , but the committee had not come to any conclusions on that . |
| 17 | Some celebrated empirical studies of work groups have argued that so-called restrictive practices usually reflect the attempt by workers to impose their own definition of a fair day 's work . |
| 18 | Throughout this paper it has been argued that separating special education policy from mainstream education policy creates an artificial division between special and mainstream education . |
| 19 | This may be one reason why venture capitalists argue that profitable start-up opportunities are rare — perhaps they do exist , but that the theoretically correct investment criteria are not being applied and so they can not be found — although no concrete evidence exists for this link . |
| 20 | They argue that long-term technological changes mean that manufacturing needs more space per worker , and also often larger plots , and that this both puts cities at a disadvantage in relation to other areas and means that , even if all available urban land were used for manufacturing , there would still be a decline in employment . |
| 21 | The Opposition argue that other European countries have regional government and we must have it as well . |
| 22 | Some women argue that female genital mutilation is good because it suppresses sexuality , thereby preserving chastity and preventing promiscuity . |
| 23 | Whilst practioners argue that still more monies need to be spent , government concern over demand-led expenditure has increased . |
| 24 | However , the King 's Fund researchers argue that limited private sector expansion may lead to ‘ distortion in NHS planning priorities , cost inflation and possible adverse effects on NHS labour supply ’ ( King 's Fund Institute , 1988 , p. 24 ) . |
| 25 | Some scientists continue to argue that natural climatic fluctuations may be responsible for the rise . |
| 26 | Dunleavy used the ideas of Castells to argue that local political analysis should not be concerned with particular communities , or specific institutions of local government , but instead should focus on the ‘ urban politics ’ of collective consumption — that is , with consumption organized on a non-commercial basis by state agencies . |
| 27 | Some writers went on to argue that attracting high ability youngsters into manufacturing industry was one of the conditions for a regeneration of the British economy . |
| 28 | By the end of the nineteenth-century , the biological model of sexuality was so constructed that it had become perfectly coherent to argue that excessive sexual desire in a woman was pathological . |
| 29 | But there were powerful pressure groups at work such as the militarist National Service League who were not slow to advance their cause by arguing that compulsory military training would act as a tonic against ‘ the physical and moral degeneracy attendant upon industrial civilisation ’ . |
| 30 | In the EC Health and Safety Directorate 's publication , Janus , Simonsen called for more research into such chemicals , arguing that clear international criteria and screening tests for neurotoxicity are needed . |