Example sentences of "argue [that] it be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wittgenstein argued that it is not possible to spell out necessary and sufficient conditions for an activity to be a game . |
| 2 | Although this fifth category is as yet insufficiently developed Terjung ( 1976 ) argued that it is increasingly appropriate as a research level for geographer climatologists . |
| 3 | He argued that it is too simplistic , and indeed ethnocentric , to dismiss such peoples as irrational and unscientific . |
| 4 | First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained . |
| 5 | In Chapter 2 , I argued that it is very important to test the system as a whole as early as possible rather than to develop components in isolation . |
| 6 | The ‘ restructuring school ’ argued that it was not possible to provide an explanation in terms of location factors alone ; what was needed was to set these factors within the wider context of the restructuring of industry ( Massey , 1979 ; Sayer , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | In this case , BCCI argued that it was not open to Fashions and Wholesale to take advantage of the set-off effect as between BCCI and Mr Sawar . |
| 8 | The Scottish National Party leader , Alex Salmond , argued that it was under Tory rule that takeovers and closures had caused the loss of most companies , leaving Scotland with only 4 per cent of company headquarters in the UK . |
| 9 | Victorian editors , embarrassed by the imputation of homosexuality , argued that it was quite customary in the Renaissance for men to write sonnets to men . |
| 10 | They argued that it was often non-culpable since even the most respectable workers could not always save sufficient to provide for old age — a hazard which not all could expect to live to experience and whose length was uncertain . |
| 11 | Far from arguing that the Bill did nothing , he argued that it was too draconian . |
| 12 | It seems unlikely that a Tibetan would have got up there to take them , but then it could be argued that it 's equally unlikely that a yeti was the culprit . |
| 13 | Whether any alternative leadership could have gone further in this direction in the 1960s and 1970s is an open question , but I have argued that it is not useful to conceive of the record so far as merely one of ‘ betrayal ’ . |
| 14 | Critics of this framework have argued that it is quite inadequate to cope with a firm with the market power of BT . |
| 15 | Luce Irigaray , for instance , has argued that it is totally reductive to define the feminine as the not-masculine in relation , say , to sexuality . |
| 16 | Neisser ( 1982 ) also argued that it was not necessary to propose a separate memory system for flashbulb memories , he suggested that rehearsal was the most important component of the phenomenon , noting particularly that such memories are not necessarily veridical , instead he emphasised the role such memories may play as a connection between personal and public history . |
| 17 | ( 1988 ) argue that it is not necessary to propose a separate memory mechanism such as that proposed by Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) to account for flashbulb memories . |
| 18 | Monetarists argue that it is relatively inelastic and stable , as in Figure 16.8(b) . |
| 19 | Proponents of left-to-right strategy argue that it is much simpler , requiring far less bookkeeping , and thus leads to greater efficiency . |
| 20 | Basic needs theorists argue that it is more fruitful to stress results rather than inputs in order to measure the adequacy of development policy . |
| 21 | I shall then examine an apparent exception to the principle of Contrast , and argue that it is only apparent , and not real . |
| 22 | The ISE is sceptical of these developments , although critics of the ISE argue that it is only interested in large companies and particularly in developing the international equity market at the expense of smaller domestic equities . |
| 23 | Some people argue that it is very difficult to write without making use of masculine pronouns or words with a masculine connotation when they are also referring to women . |
| 24 | Those who believe that it is important to consider the structure of the market rather than the behaviour of firms argue that it is far better to deal with problems before they arise . |
| 25 | Betty began to open her mouth to argue that it was n't well-trained at all until she remembered that it did n't exist , and she had vowed not to get drawn into Lydia 's idiotic fantasies . |
| 26 | I have spent many hours of my life arguing that it is not necessary to have been in prison to write convincingly about prison conditions , not to be poor to declaim on the evils of poverty , nor black to describe racial discrimination . |
| 27 | They are arguing that it is not fair to have the ‘ haves ’ and the ‘ have-nots ’ ; it 's not fair to have a north and south divide . |
| 28 | She sent him a memo — the usual form of royal communication — but he replied negatively , arguing that it was n't possible as she had only been doing the job for a short time . |
| 29 | Porter argues that it is also important to distinguish between experience-curve ( learning-by-doing ) effects and reduction of costs through economies of scale , i.e. the reduction achievable in any one period by increasing efficiency through the use of larger production plants , thereby spreading infrastructure costs over more units of output . |
| 30 | While ACORN 's most obvious application is in market analysis , advertising and direct marketing , CACI argues that it is equally relevant to the sales manager for setting equitable targets for different sales territories . |