Example sentences of "argue [that] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English departments are apparently tolerant of competing ideas and paradigms ; lecturers , however , argued that assessment of students was more concerned with assessing students ' grasp of a discourse , their ability to practise English , than with judging the validity of their opinions . |
| 2 | He argued that fluctuations in the earth 's climate due to geological changes might alter the proportion of reptiles and mammals in the population . |
| 3 | In reaching this conclusion the court argued that freedom of contract was a fundamental right , and that if parliament intended to empower a third party to make conditions which affected the provisions of a contract between others then this should be expressed in clear terms . |
| 4 | This argued that micromanagement of spending projects had developed on an ad hoc basis , and was failing to provide enough information for a detailed analysis of the efficiency with which resources were being used in existing programmes and policy options . |
| 5 | In ways never always explicitly developed , early proponents of the idea argued that incentives within the zones would help sustain employment ( Hall , 1977 ; Howe , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | A substantial number of Conservative MPs argued that parents of prospective pupils should be allowed to vote on the grounds that the parents of prospective pupils have a bigger stake in the future of the school than parents whose children are in their final year and who will not therefore be affected by any changes . |
| 7 | Monetarists argued that changes in money supply have a direct and powerful effect . |
| 8 | She argued that women by nature were no less talented than men . |
| 9 | He argued that reference to a male should precede any reference to a woman , again reflecting the order of nature . |
| 10 | He argued that education for understanding can only be regarded as successful to the extent that it makes behavioural outcomes unpredictable . |
| 11 | Salah argued that lack of education debarred more than half the nation from paid employment and from contributing to Libya 's future . |
| 12 | Professor Dolley argued that raids on western England in the 980s were partly the responsibility of Scandinavians who had settled in Ireland , and that Æthelred 's expedition into Cumberland in 1000 , and the activities of his fleet in the Irish Sea , were in all likelihood the result of provocation in that area . |
| 13 | Led by USAID , they argued that people in the Third World were poor because they were having too many children . |
| 14 | At one end of the spectrum of opinion were xenophobic seclusionists who argued that relations with foreigners would be morally as well as politically disastrous . |
| 15 | The trial of Chihana , released on bail on Sept. 8 [ for his arrest in April see p. 38851 ; for his release and subsequent rearrest in July see pp. 38995-96 ] , was deferred until Oct. 12 after his counsel argued that irregularities on the part of the authorities threatened a miscarriage of justice . |
| 16 | He argued that issues of fact were more difficult than in Britain because there was much false testimony and also because ‘ precision of observation with regard to time and distance is quite unknown to a large proportion of witnesses . ’ |
| 17 | C. P. Snow argued that practitioners of science and practitioners of the arts , inhabit two distinct cultures ; scientists , for example , have ‘ common attitudes , common approaches and assumptions ’ . |
| 18 | However , the preceding privatization of gas had shown only moderate job losses , and the government lobby argued that privatization of coal itself could make marginal collieries economically viable if they had a ‘ leaner management ’ and supervisory structure . |
| 19 | He argued that access to oil resources could be secured by negotiation with the Russians . |
| 20 | Categorically , he argued that force in Ulster would overthrow parliamentary majorities if necessary and he assured the party 's support in advance with no limitations . |
| 21 | The ‘ rational expectations ’ school of monetarists argued that expectations of lower inflation would lead to a slow-down in the rise of wages , costs , and prices . |
| 22 | It argued that outbreaks of fire in Underground stations were seen as inevitable by management , which monitored strictly financial matters , rather than safety . |
| 23 | The South African government argued that negotiations over the sovereign status of the Bay ( with the only deep-water harbour on the Namibian coast ) could not take place until a new political order had been established in South Africa . |
| 24 | Others have criticised such a view on the grounds that it introduces an undesirable ambiguity into the concept of existence , and have argued that propositions of this kind should not be taken at their face value but should be paraphrased in such a way as to prevent spurious names from usurping the role of subjects . |
| 25 | It has often been argued that girls in single-sex schools are likely to have higher educational achievements than girls in mixed schools , and in particular that they are more likely to do well in scientific subjects ( e.g. Department of Education and Science 1980 ; Steedman 1980 ) . |
| 26 | Devlin , he suggests , provides no evidence with which to support the statement , and further no reputable historian has argued that deviation from sexual morality could be seen , like an act of treason , as threatening society 's existence . |
| 27 | He has argued that differences between British and Indian legal norms inevitably led to a divorce in Indian minds between justice and the colonial courts . |
| 28 | On this last point , I have argued that differences between large specimens ( such as the Petralona cranium ) and small specimens ( such as the Steinheim cranium ) do warrant a degree of taxonomic separations , whereas others consider that the differences are due more to internal population variation such as sexual dimorphism . |
| 29 | It is argued that differences in the political agendas and ideologies of the British and Spanish governments lie behind the variable pressures — and opportunities — for industrial relations change experienced by railway management . |
| 30 | For example , it is argued that boys in initiation receive esoteric privileged knowledge , but girls only suffer prohibitions and restrictions at puberty ( see Bamberger 1974 : 277 ; Ortner 1974 : 69 ) . |