Example sentences of "been argue that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has frequently been argued that temporary jobs , although possibly less desirable than permanent jobs , do provide a form of work for otherwise unemployed people and , furthermore , one that enhances their chances of subsequently obtaining permanent jobs ( Syrett , 1985 ) .
2 It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church .
3 Whilst it has been argued that such firms need financial and general business aid , if they are to fulfil their potential on a timely basis , little is known of their accounting/financial practices and needs .
4 It has been argued that such courses come somewhere around the foundation or specific stage in most people 's educational development , although the increasing proportions of mature students must make us wary of too linear a model .
5 Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) .
6 It has been argued that continuous agriculture could be maintained if a closed nutrient cycle could be achieved , the canopy not perforated so that leaching would be prevented and the forest floor would not deteriorate , and if nutrients were added to equal those exported as crops and the diversity of species maintained .
7 However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract .
8 It has been argued that lower productivity countries such as the Southern European states , Ireland and the UK could suffer from the creation of the SEM .
9 It has also been argued that green belts have been used as instruments of preservation rather than conservation , and that insufficient attention has been devoted to positive planning , and to provision for recreational use .
10 It has been argued that romantic love is a relatively modern phenomenon , reserved in earlier times for the delight of troubadours and the illicit pleasures of the rich .
11 It has sometimes been argued that marine erosion is not active at present because raised beaches are still preserved on exposed parts of the coast , e.g. on Gower in South Wales and at Brighton .
12 It has been argued that this approach may delay treatment of a victim of obstructed airway or primary respiratory arrest .
13 ( 11.30 ) In Section 10.2 it has been argued that this solution must be considered to be unphysical on its own , but it may be included as a factor in more general solutions .
14 For some strange optical reason this makes it look bigger than it really is and it has been argued that this illusion would have the effect of making an attacking lion misjudge its leap , striking short of the true position of the prey .
15 It has been argued that this essay is vitiated by " bad faith " .
16 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 ’ .
17 It has been argued that judicial review should never be refused because of the existence of an alternative remedy if the applicant can establish a ground for judicial review .
18 It has been argued that double-hulled vessels can be more hazardous in high-speed collisions than single-hulled vessels .
19 It has been argued that these policies were adopted at Moscow 's instigation .
20 Technical difficulties aside , it has been argued that these provisions will not make any appreciable difference to the welfare of victims for , except in the most notorious of cases , most authors receive very small amounts indeed from publication .
21 It has been argued that these divisions within the working class are unreconcilable and prevent it acting as a strong , united , radical force .
22 In particular it has been argued that any body which has no power over financial matters is impotent as a check on the activities of government and that a new " upper chamber " should have some control over financial matters .
23 It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth .
24 It has been argued that special attention should be focused upon the resilience and potential for recovery of the soil profile in view of the inputs induced by man ( Trudgill , 1977 , chapter 8 ) , and the importance of the problem is underlined by Toy ( 1982 ) in a review of accelerated erosion when he concludes that such erosion can be considered to be the pre-eminent environmental problem in the United States by virtue of its widespread occurrence and cumulative cost .
25 It has been argued that high house prices have prevented workers from moving to new jobs in the South East , leading to recruitment difficulties and increased costs for employers in the region .
26 It has been argued that British membership of the EEC imposes a legal not simply a political limitation on Parliament .
27 It has been argued that corporate efficiency in privatised industries has improved , not just by an exposure to market forces and an acceptance of the profit motive , but by the extra freedom given to managers .
28 We have been arguing that changing concepts is a political activity ; that it is not value-free , but arises out of a particular ethical or political interpretation of the word , and that one of the aims of the dialogue between feminism and philosophy should precisely be to reconceptualise the world that is offered by philosophy as it is at present .
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