Example sentences of "argue that a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And a survey by the Association of British Chambers of Commerce argued that a deepening recession is hitting London hardest . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Gramsci argued that a proletarian movement which successfully challenges the domination of capital must not concentrate attention solely on economic or political organization . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But MITI argued that a domestic industry should be nurtured because of its critical importance , and won . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He argued that a fundamental conflict was taking place during the period of social modernisation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was dismissed by other experts , however , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before sufficient people developed cancer . |
| 20 | In Chapter Three I argued that a postmodernist culture that foregrounded ‘ desire ’ signalled somehow a renunciation of signification . |
| 21 | A number argued that an outright ban should be introduced on the holding of client money by sole practitioners . |
| 22 | It might well be argued that a genuine contributor would be prepared to write or share his or her experiences without monetary reward . |
| 23 | Indeed it could be argued that a dynastic conflict involving the interests of the Houses of Orléans , Bourbon , Bonaparte and Hohenzollern was the means chosen to bring down the Empire , even if it was not really the cause . |
| 24 | Lenin once argued that a political leader is responsible not only for policy but for the action of those who execute it . |
| 25 | In the first place it could be argued that a democratic government would not impose unreasonably on minorities ; this exposed the party to Liberal charges that they were indifferent to the Irish Nationalists , but it also exposed the weakness of the government 's position , as Law explained to the Commons in January 1913 : |
| 26 | Lenneberg ( 1966 ) has argued that a great deal of evidence about deafness in children , aphasia , environmental deprivation of various kinds , muscular debilities and so on supports the hypothesis that language acquisition by children follows a definite maturational path , passing certain milestones of achievement in a certain order . |
| 27 | It has been argued that a better measure of familial aggregation is the ratio of prevalence among relatives to that in the general population , but this ratio alone is also of limited value since , for a given heritability , it varies inversely with population prevalence . |
| 28 | It might be argued that a tacit assumption of research which examines girls ' 'failure' in science is not only that girls are inadequate-not measuring up to the standard of boys — but also that maths , physics and chemistry are more difficult and more important than English , languages , history and biology . |
| 29 | It could be argued that a poorly performing ICU is unlikely to occur in isolation . |
| 30 | It may , with justice , be argued that a community-based approach already exists . |