Example sentences of "it [was/were] argued that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the previous section , it was argued that major contributions to the growth of scientific knowledge come about either when a bold conjecture is confirmed or when a cautious conjecture is falsified . |
| 2 | It was argued that 5 per cent on paper would mean nearer 8 or 9 per cent in reality through wage-drift effects . |
| 3 | It was argued that all of the information , as a package , was confidential and that ( e ) was itself secret . |
| 4 | In the Holland Report in 1977 it was argued that young people were no longer employed because they did not fit employers ' needs . |
| 5 | In Chapter 3 it was argued that pre-colonial society was indeed authoritarian , and that this expressed itself in a great stress on the conformity of the individual , and on a hierarchy of relationships between young and old , between chiefs and people and between men and women . |
| 6 | It was argued that many disputes which were previously resolved by headmen would be taken to the new courts . |
| 7 | It was argued that such a system would generally be more favourable to employees and would be more likely to curb ‘ the exercise of managerial prerogative in the interests of individual job retention as well as avoiding the tendency to legalism ’ . |
| 8 | It was argued that such covenants are often contained in conveyances , leases and mortgages , and that they had never been subject to the doctrine of restraint of trade and consequently the test of reasonableness . |
| 9 | Moreover , it was argued that contractionary policies introduced during boom periods to reduce the growth in imports and inflationary pressures had their full effect when the economy had begun to move into recession . |
| 10 | First , it was argued that local government was financially dependent on the centre , and that ‘ he who pays the piper calls the tune ’ . |
| 11 | It was argued that social acts were essentially motivated behaviour and could be properly understood and explained only in terms of these underlying dispositions . |
| 12 | ‘ From the earliest articulation of the problem [ of rape ] it was argued that antiquated statutes provide little protection for the victim and hinder effective prosecution . |
| 13 | Nevertheless it was argued that these procedures violated Article 8 of the Convention on two grounds , one because people were not always notified after the surveillance , the other because there was no judicial supervision of the procedures . |
| 14 | Not only were their needs felt to threaten the living standards of other groups , but it was argued that these needs should be given less priority : ‘ It is dangerous to be in any way lavish to old age , until adequate provision . |
| 15 | While it was argued that these centres create jobs , can help create a better image for the area and provide shopping facilities locally , many expressed concern that the jobs provided are part-time and low paid and go no way towards creating a sound economic base in the community . |
| 16 | It was argued that these findings reflected general activation of both hemispheres combined with specific activation of the left hemisphere . |
| 17 | It was argued that these assignments were by way of charge . |
| 18 | In Chapter 2 it was argued that some of the most striking features of the post-war development of the British state , at least until the late 1970s , could be explained quite effectively in terms of ‘ corporate bias ’ , that is moves away from the formal structures of democratic ( electoral ) representation towards the representation of major corporate interest groups ( such as the trade unions and employers ' organizations ) , as mediated through the agency of the state itself . |
| 19 | While this is a notoriously difficult problem , it was argued that some progress can be made . |
| 20 | On behalf of the defendant it was argued that some limitation had to be placed on the word " practice " and the natural and proper limitation was to imply the words " as medical practitioners " . |
| 21 | Before the 1970s , one reason why wife battering was not perceived as a social problem was because it was argued that those who suffered it could leave and those who stayed could not be suffering . |
| 22 | ( c ) it was argued that any potential conflicts could be circumvented through the creation of ‘ Chinese walls ’ within firms ; |
| 23 | It was argued that this was needed to allow the husband to do the field work as quickly as possible and so release him for more off-farm employment . |
| 24 | In the previous chapter ( p.41 ) it was argued that this was the period when a major ideological stress of antislavery was its embodiment of the national interest across class and denomination , and such meetings offered dramatic demonstration of aristocratic support ( the Duke of Bedford at Woburn ) , ‘ the elite of the town , churchmen and dissenters ’ ( at Dunstable ) and caught up audiences , already stirred by ‘ an intensity of feeling on the fate of the Reform Bill ’ , into an almost equally excited interest in emancipation . |
| 25 | It was argued that this arrangement would make the scheme more popular both with contributors and with advocates of self-help , since contributors would appear to be financing their own benefits , whilst experiencing a form of training in saving . |
| 26 | It was argued that this should have maximised any lateral eye movement asymmetry . |
| 27 | On the assumption that people are motivated by monetary reward , it was argued that this would provide incentives for them to work harder and for entrepreneurs to create wealth and jobs . |
| 28 | It was argued that this could best be achieved by preventing the need for candidates from the same party to compete with each other in multimember seats , thereby reducing their need spend huge sums of money during the campaign . |
| 29 | It was argued that this was obvious because every competent housewife knows that dust can be removed from a floor by the passage of a vacuum cleaner . |
| 30 | It was argued that supply-side economics offered most to the politicians , whereas theories of political business cycles suggest an ‘ incentive ’ but perhaps little real ability to manipulate the economy to secure re-election . |