Example sentences of "had argued [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the LEA had argued that a child ( J ) with dyslexia did not have special educational needs requiring special educational provision for the purposes of the 1981 Act , because he was an intelligent child whose needs could be provided for in an ordinary school . |
| 2 | The Newsom Report in 1963 , for example , had argued that a better ( male ) workforce would serve to create jobs , and that Britain 's economic fortunes were impeded by undertrained workers . |
| 3 | Eric Howe , the Data Protection Registrar , had argued that the activities of the mischievous or curious should not be criminalised . |
| 4 | They had argued that the new ideas about space and motion had arisen from an intellectual and , to a much lesser extent , empirical critique of the preceding , largely Anstotelian , notions . |
| 5 | The critics had argued that the Paisleyites had provoked the Catholic population of the Markets with the anti-Romanist slogans on their placards . |
| 6 | Lawyers for Mr Marks , who is accused of mounting a bear raid on Maxwell Communication Corporation in late 1990 , had argued that the documents would shed light on the relationship between American investment bank Goldman Sachs and MCC . |
| 7 | Michael Collins , who had been killed in the course of the Civil War , had argued that the Treaty could be used as ‘ the stepping stones to freedom ’ . |
| 8 | Where a property was sold following a period of letting , Customs had argued that the Association no longer had a ‘ person constructing ’ status and was not , therefore , entitled to claim input relief on property selling costs . |
| 9 | For example , the Holland Report ( 1977 ) had argued that the YOP should serve to help disadvantaged school leavers — such as black school leavers — in the labour market . |
| 10 | Robinson had argued that the Church was in a critical position in that it was becoming ever more remote from modern society and that it must therefore rethink its position . |
| 11 | Previously the government had argued that the slave trade was so profitable that the traders could pay for their own forts , but by the mid-eighteenth century this attitude had changed to an acceptance of the fact that the trade was so necessary for the sugar islands ( and the sugar islands so necessary for the British economy ) that the trade would have to be supported if it could not afford to meet these overhead costs . |
| 12 | Before he became Home Secretary Morrison had argued that the best way for Jews to prevent anti-semitism was to ensure that they could not be blamed for social injustices in areas where they lived . |
| 13 | As early as 1934 Bachelard had argued that the revolutionary changes in physics , such as relativity theory and microphysics , meant that science itself was currently defined by its reaction against the past , and had become a ‘ philosophy of the non , — non-Cartesian , non-Euclidean , non-Newtonian , and non-Baconian . |
| 14 | Aristotle had argued that the male semen gave ‘ form ’ to the ‘ matter ’ provided by the woman ; form here being a determining principle which shapes matter , such that in human beings the form is the rational soul , the particular characteristic which makes us human . |
| 15 | Ultimately , the judge found in favour of the plaintiffs , who had argued that the educational authorities were illegally discriminating against their children by failing to take into account their distinctive language and culture . |
| 16 | In his Essay on the Principle of Population of 1797 , Malthus had argued that the human race always had the potential to breed faster than the food supply could be increased . |
| 17 | There Darwin had argued that the extraordinary shapes of orchids were the result of evolution in conjunction with generally a single kind of insect fertilizer . |
| 18 | But the two men had argued that the emergency had been going on in Northern Ireland for so long , it was a question whether it was a crisis situation or if it had become normal . |
| 19 | The petitioners had argued that the Gandhi government had no right to reach a final deal with UCC against the victims ' wishes . |
| 20 | As such it undermined the defences of the other 10 who faced charges arising from the affair and who , like Shinto , had argued that the shares did not constitute a form of bribery . |
| 21 | Trinidadian government lawyers had argued that the pardon was given under duress and therefore was invalid . |
| 22 | He had argued that the prints were not improperly taken but it was said that his possession must have originated in breach of trust , confidence or contract and , therefore , an injunction was granted preventing the exhibition . |
| 23 | Greenpeace had argued that the commissioning tests , which involve the use of radioactive materials , should not have been allowed before a final decision on the plant 's go-ahead . |
| 24 | Greece had argued that an independent nation called Macedonia would imply that the new state had territorial designs on Greece 's northern province , also called Macedonia . |
| 25 | The students , who claim to have the backing of old girl Margaret Thatcher , had argued that an Act of Parliament was needed to change the college status . |