Example sentences of "argue that this [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Gardiner argued that this case supported the Woolwich principle in as much as recovery depended solely upon the fact that the corporation had been placed by statute in a position of authority . |
| 2 | Following Marx 's thesis about the tendency of the rate of profit to decline , Baran and Sweezey argued that this decline led to a drop in the effective demand in the economy , as more and more money is tied up in research and development and the purchase and maintenance of machinery . |
| 3 | It might be argued that this approach downgrades sexual intercourse without consent where little violence or none at all is used . |
| 4 | ( It could be argued that this approach confuses appropriation and dishonesty . |
| 5 | It might be argued that this function has been coopted by such purposive ( indeed , allegedly manipulative ) schemes as the Youth Training Scheme . |
| 6 | It might be argued that this scheme puts the claimant who at present has a choice whether or not to use Ord. 53 , at a disadvantage because under the new scheme he or she would have to seek leave and would possibly be subject to very restrictive time-limits . |
| 7 | Second , it could be argued that this system removes any incentive for sound financial control at local level and constitutes a divorce between management responsibility and financial accountability of the kind severely criticized by the 1976 Layfield Report on local government finance . |
| 8 | It can be argued that this failure to look at higher education may be the result of a deficiency in feminist theory about education — that feminists ( and , indeed , other educational theorists ) have difficulty in theorizing the role of higher education in the reproduction of inequality . |
| 9 | ‘ It could be argued that this situation amounts to a cynical manipulation of a group which the Government and employers recognise are more vulnerable than most . |
| 10 | By the mid-1670s Peyton had become the leader of a republican group , ‘ Peyton 's Gang ’ , and it has been argued that this group had a hand in the murder of the JP Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey [ q.v. ] in 1678 , which provoked widespread belief in the bogus ‘ Popish Plot ’ . |
| 11 | Wimmer and Perner argue that this ability involves the ability to represent the relationship between two conflicting beliefs . |
| 12 | Britain and other EC partners argue that this policy defeats the point of a unified EC take-over code . |
| 13 | But Sony is expected to argue that this contract has moral and legal force , was freely negotiated and is of a type common in the industry . |
| 14 | She says I intend going to Strasbourg on Monday to argue that this report has been irresponsibly drawn up . |
| 15 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 16 | Edgar Laderoute of the American company Foxboro argues that this approach leaves the customer with a choice between buying equipment that is immune to RFI or suppressing offending radio waves at their source . |
| 17 | He argues that this structure makes false assumptions about the nature of learning , and disregards the diversity of learners . |
| 18 | One tradition argues that this concept refers to a " state of mind " , one that expresses withdrawal from or disenchantment with the life that one leads . |
| 19 | Wolfe argues that this contradiction has three consequences for public administration . |
| 20 | He argues that this control enables a group of conquerors to subdue and dominate those who do not have access to such technology . |
| 21 | However , Urquhart ( 1983 ) argues that this estimate ignores the contribution of polonium-210 ( used by the USA and UK as an irreplaceable initiator for starting the chain reaction at the heart of their first atomic bombs ) to the health effects and that the radiation-induced cancer deaths and hereditary effects would have been considerably higher . |
| 22 | If there is a consensus that the Constitution is the fundamental law , for example , he might argue that this consensus provides an abstract convention whose implicit extension includes the proposition that statutes must be enforced because the best interpretation of the Constitution requires this , even though many lawyers deny it . |
| 23 | The Chancellor could argue that this outcome reflects the restraint exercised with respect to alcoholic drinks . |
| 24 | Many would also argue that this process has continued into the community , with a greater proportion of people with complex care needs now remaining in the community rather than entering some form of residential care . |
| 25 | There are others , ( we shall meet some of them later ) who would argue that this urge to emulate the natural sciences in this way is premature . |
| 26 | For those who might argue that this information comes from ‘ the industry ’ it should be pointed out that such data have to be approved by government before it is issued . |