Example sentences of "[adv] argue [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling sensibly argued that it was illogical to form two new battalions when the few men he required were being denied him . |
| 2 | Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that . |
| 3 | Ivanisevic and Co. naturally argue that it is unfair to alter the regulations as it would interfere with the natural development of the game . |
| 4 | Therefore if you 've got a relationship with somebody and all you seem to constantly to be doing is constantly arguing and it 's either I win or you win you 're never gon na get out of that unless other time . |
| 5 | At the same time he rightly argues that it is premature to conceive of a cycle of decentralization since that might ‘ presuppose the existence of one single major engine behind the process and suggest the possibility of the recurrence of a similar round of developments in the future ’ ( pp. 35–6 ) . |
| 6 | Griffin further argued that it was wrong to attempt to explain girls ' experience by trying to fit them into models derived from studies of male youth . |
| 7 | Arnold Toynbee once argued that it is the ‘ barbaric ’ vital periphery that finally topples a declining civilization , but this maxim does not hold for the Russian Revolution . |
| 8 | But there will be no increase for spirits , a move welcomed by the Scottish whisky industry which has always argued that it is unfairly dealt with . |
| 9 | I would further argue that it is precisely in these circumstances where further specialisation and sub-specialisation has occurred that the ‘ intermediate expert ’ is constrained to adopt a paternalistic stance . |
| 10 | One feminist , Mrs Wolstenholme-Elmy ( who as a young woman determined to follow Mary Wollstonecraft 's example and live with her lover , until on becoming pregnant she took the advice of fellow suffragists and married ) accepted the idea that menstruation was essentially pathological , although she also argued that it was caused by men 's brutality . |
| 11 | It is also argued that it is inconsistent with human dignity that a woman should use her uterus for financial profit and treat it as an incubator for someone else 's child . ’ |
| 12 | Supposing the sentence read : ‘ It is also argued that it is inconsistent with human dignity that a man should use his muscles as a crane for transporting someone else 's goods ’ ; or ‘ that a woman should use her vocal cords for the delectation of others ’ ; or ‘ that a person should use his or her brain to work out someone else 's income tax ’ — would these substitutes carry convictions ? |
| 13 | There it is also argued that it is from the legislation of emancipation onwards that the tensions and forces making for conflict grow significantly stronger than the cohesive factors sustaining antislavery culture . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In 1830 he described the opium trade as ‘ the safest and most gentlemanlike speculation I am aware of ’ , and later argued that it was Chinese buyers , rather than British merchants , who were doing the smuggling . |
| 16 | We will also argue that it is probably necessary to make another distinction within the mental lexicon , and to think of there being separate sub-systems for input and output . |
| 17 | He rejects the idea that industry ought to keep workers on simply to fulfil a responsibility for maintaining full employment and he also argues that it will be impossible to increase the tax base enough to create employment in labour-intensive services such as health and education . |
| 18 | This ruling did not demand a strict literalism , but since the fathers and later commentators had interpreted the relevant passages of Scripture in geostatic terms , Cardinal Bellarmine would later argue that it was imprudent to abandon that consensus . |
| 19 | For example , it is often argued that it is common sense and natural that women will engage in child-rearing and domestic tasks and that men will make sexual advances and will work outside the home . |
| 20 | If a British multinational invests in plant abroad , it is often argued that it weakens British industry because the resources could have been used to invest in new production in the UK . |
| 21 | President Ceausescu now argues that it is ‘ inconceivable ’ that production units should be autonomous . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , ‘ nihilistic views ’ were intensifying among young people ; they were becoming politically disorientated , and some had even argued that it was ‘ time to call to account the Communists who had supposedly ‘ humanised ’ the country 's life after 1917' . |
| 23 | So those who say arti artificial abortion is unnatural , are I think er on a , on , on , skating on very thin ice , because you could equally well argue that it was just a continuation of a natural trend . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it can be validly argued that it would be asking too much from a private entity to provide the same public notice that public registries have provided . |
| 25 | Because the choice of opting out is largely represented to parents , former pupils and the local community as a means of securing a better financial arrangement from the DES than has been possible with the local authority , it is sometimes argued that it is not ethos or education but funding which alone lies at the heart of the decision . |
| 26 | Likud has consistently argued that it wants to deal only with local inhabitants of what it calls Judea and Samaria ( the West Bank and Gaza ) . |
| 27 | In this section , I will first summarize his account , and then argue that it does not save the falsificationist from the objections of section 1 . |
| 28 | ‘ I think I could take a barrister 's brief for arguing that up to , say , 1985 the squeeze was a necessary remedy for the rather free expansion which had taken place in the 1960s , and early 1970s , ’ says Sir Eric , ‘ but I do n't believe I could even theoretically argue that it has been justifiable since then . |
| 29 | Indeed , Parry has recently argued that it is only under the conditions of a relatively free market that there is evidence for the entirely disinterested gift , in which calculation should be entirely absent , this being a product of the same emergent duality ( Parry 1986 ) . |