Example sentences of "[be] argued [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes it has been argued that the evolution was the other way round ; and more recently still it has been argued that no evolution in either direction took place .
2 Indeed , it has recently been argued that no ‘ actual sentence of deposition , in the legal sense of the term ’ was pronounced against Edward .
3 It has also been argued that a reliance on external inspection alone removes from teachers the responsibility to evaluate their own work .
4 It has been argued that a de-clawed cat can learn to use its teeth more when grooming .
5 It has been argued that a new spatial division of labour has been created which has changed the relative attractiveness of locations ( Massey and Meegan 1982 , Massey 1984 ) .
6 It has been argued that a State may intervene , even forcibly , in the affairs of another State without violating Article 2 ( 4 ) of the United Nations Charter , or the norm of non-intervention where the intervention is justified on humanitarian grounds , for example to stop gross violations of human rights .
7 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 .
8 It has also been argued that a lifting of the exemption could induce spiteful and malicious allegations by wives , particularly where divorce proceedings were involved .
9 Thus , it has been argued that a set of at least tacit beliefs that underlay aesthetic modernism also underlay the birth of classical sociological theory in the work of Weber , Simmel , and Durkheim .
10 The officers , whether beneficiarii , stratores or regionarii , might have been in charge of , and therefore accommodated in , the mansio , if one existed , though it has been argued that a beneficiarius , usually only a legionary , was too junior in status to have charge of such an important building .
11 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 .
12 It has been argued that a special , hybrid type of right should be introduced for computer programs ; something between a patent and copyright .
13 Despite the inherent difficulties in comparative work it has been argued that an international perspective has always been implicit to some extent in the study of industrial relations .
14 It has been argued that an appropriate definition of central in this context would be information related to risks and potential risks in a situation .
15 It has been argued that the Famine led to a long-term levelling process amongst the afflicted peasantry , thus keeping the ‘ kulak ’ at bay in the stricken areas .
16 It has also been argued that the small mouths of the giants simply could not have downed enough food to support a warm-blooded metabolism , particularly plant food that needs a lot of processing before it becomes available as energy .
17 It has also been argued that the legal system enables the powerful to get away with exploiting other people without actually breaking the law .
18 It has thus been argued that the singularities and in regions II and III are essentially extensions of the singularity in region IV .
19 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 .
20 Sometimes it has been argued that the evolution was the other way round ; and more recently still it has been argued that no evolution in either direction took place .
21 Indeed , it has been argued that the government is the most likely source of excess demand inflation : through its policy measures , it can finance its own spending by raising taxes , by borrowing or by printing money .
22 This seems surprising since it has been argued that the existence of joint auditors may have facilitated the BCCI fraud .
23 It has been argued that the primitive features are innate , and the tendency to make binary oppositions is natural to human cognition .
24 But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) .
25 Transient deterioration in neuropsychological function has been shown convincingly during short periods of experimental hyperphenylalaninaemia , and it has been argued that the changes may be due to neurotransmitter deficiency .
26 And it has even been argued that the pragmatists simply ‘ extended Spencer to argue that , since all human activity could be interpreted as the outcome of the instinct for survival , so therefore could thinking be ’ .
27 It had long been argued that the maintenance of a low level of unemployment should be the guiding principle of a government 's economic policy .
28 It has been argued that the best predictor of behaviour is not the possession of knowledge per se but behavioural intentions which are themselves predicted by attitudes and the subjective norm for the acceptability of the behaviour in question .
29 It has been argued that the Conservative government has in its policy changes ( if not publicly voiced ) moved towards a more Keynesian stance .
30 On the other hand , it has been argued that the burning of genealogies to which Julius Africanus refers was perpetrated not by Herod , but by the Romans after the revolt of A.D. 66 .
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