Example sentences of "argued that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might well be argued that a genuine contributor would be prepared to write or share his or her experiences without monetary reward . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lenin once argued that a political leader is responsible not only for policy but for the action of those who execute it . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It could be argued that a poorly performing ICU is unlikely to occur in isolation . |
| 9 | It may , with justice , be argued that a community-based approach already exists . |
| 10 | Even though it might be argued that a regular life-style implies a regular degree of fatigue and so will require a regular amount of sleep , in practice , such a degree of regularity is not achieved . |
| 11 | On Oct. 15 , 1989 , a controversial retrial of 15 Islamic extremists ( who had been associates of Bouiali-see above ) was abandoned after the defence had successfully argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case following the Supreme Court 's refusal to do so . |
| 12 | This paper has argued that a sociological definition of an occupation should be in terms of the specific practices of that occupation . |
| 13 | It has just been argued that a thorough analysis of the market attractiveness and competitive strengths of an SBU ( possibly based upon a Porter analysis ) , should provide more insight into the future covariability of the SBU and total market returns . |
| 14 | It has argued that a total ban on sex may be unnecessary ; it would prefer to have rules that prevent a lawyer from bullying a client to have sex . |
| 15 | It can be argued that a similar approach should be taken to time limit clauses , on the basis that they do not wholly exclude liability , but require action to be taken swiftly . |
| 16 | Although it may be argued that a meaningful measure of comprehensive income can not be provided unless a full system of current value accounting is employed , the introduction of the SCFW is likely to encourage the preparers of financial statements to move away from the historical cost system and to value relevant assets at current values . |
| 17 | It may be argued that a binding contract was made on the telephone ; if so , any subsequent attempt to introduce new terms into the agreement will be ineffective unless there is a binding variation of the contract , supported by consideration . |
| 18 | It is also argued that a production-based rent allowed the landlord to receive excess benefits due to the skill of the site operator . |
| 19 | It is sometimes argued that a full-blooded commitment to phenomenological principles entails a retreat into relativism in which the researcher is denied any grounds upon which to choose between alternative accounts of the same situation . |
| 20 | On the other hand , it can be argued that a responsible salesperson is in the best position to decide how much time needs to be spent with each customer . |
| 21 | Arnot ( 1981 ) has argued that a theoretical division exists between ‘ cultural ’ ( what I have characterized as ‘ liberal ’ and ‘ radical ’ ) approaches and ‘ political economy ’ ( Marxist-feminist ) approaches . |
| 22 | It was argued that a lengthy period within a mental hospital could itself produce symptoms of social disorientation , apathy , loss of initiative and so on , which amounted to institutional neurosis , an illness that could persist long after the original illness had cleared up . |
| 23 | It is argued that a flexible control structure based on numerical scoring allows the required co-operation to take place , whereas a more limited depth-first architecture seems not to allow this . |
| 24 | It has been argued that a de-clawed cat can learn to use its teeth more when grooming . |
| 25 | Indeed , it may be argued that a British group lobbying Parliament demonstrates mainly its lack of access to , or impact on , the core of the policy-making process ( ministers and civil servants ) , unless the lobby is undertaken explicitly for symbolic purposes and in order to attract the attention of the media . |
| 26 | It was argued that the logical situation permits the establishment of the falsity but not of the truth of theories in the light of available observation statements . |
| 27 | It has thus been argued that the general structure of all colliding plane wave solutions is as illustrated in Figure 8.6 with with the possible exception that , for some solutions , the curvature singularity in region IV is replaced by a Cauchy horizon . |
| 28 | Although it is argued that the total value of the firm will remain constant , it is shown that this will be so because the price of equity will fall so as to offset the impact of using debt . |
| 29 | Glaciologists have argued that the two intervals of ice-sheet collapse were more probably driven by some extreme nonlinear response to slowly changing climate than by rapid climate change . |
| 30 | Some have argued that the first attack was intended to lure the French forces to the east bank , so leaving a German attack on the west bank relatively unopposed . |