Example sentences of "would argue [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , I 'd argue that it does make a difference , because we are announcing the fact that er we are coming along to possibly alert somebody er that we were coming into a building and then hence we encounter even more problems .
2 By removing these sorts of features — hesitations , false starts , social or regional dialects , idiolect , interference , what people are doing and who they are — sentence linguists would argue that we take away what is incidental and variable in language and leave what is permanent and invariable .
3 There are others ( amongst whom I am one ) who would argue that we need to give young children the opportunity to develop fully at their own pace and in their own individual ways .
4 Yet few educationists would argue that they do not figure in their overall goals for what they wish pupils to achieve or that they do not impinge fundamentally on pupils ' potential success or failure .
5 ‘ News is news , and newspaper people would argue that they have every right to report it .
6 Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price .
7 Erm Ray raised an interesting point , loading for management time , for example Ray would argue that he spends a disproportionate amount of time travelling to meetings , more than any of the other members
8 Many would argue that he paints a very romantic image of working-class communities in the past and exaggerates the collective ‘ breakdown ’ of the present .
9 A depressing picture , but nevertheless I would argue that there has been a marginal improvement over the years .
10 However , I would argue that it begs the question to phrase it in such a way .
11 Oh , everyone would argue that it did n't matter these days , it was n't important .
12 Education has not been immune from this process , and some would argue that it has helped to create new social divisions .
13 But if there is a distinctive female verbal culture — and here we need to bear in mind that women themselves are not a homogeneous group — I would argue that it has been shaped by patriarchal conditions , including the restrictions placed on women 's lives and words .
14 Figure 6.5 is a model of the lunar interior , many features of which would be accepted by most scientists , though a minority would argue that it has yet to be established that the Moon has a global crust .
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