Example sentences of "argued that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be argued that they existed but had been forgotten . |
| 2 | However , it could be argued that they ignore the nature of industrial capitalism in its new locales and concentrate instead in descriptive terms on the impact on social relations in former metropolitan , specialized industrial city regions . |
| 3 | Some health professionals even argued that they learnt more from the process than did the ‘ recipient ’ villagers . |
| 4 | The council 's Labour leadership , who have been in control since 1986 , have argued that they had no control over the transactions as the day to day running of the finance department is in the hands of expert financial staff . |
| 5 | Regan and Stewart ( 1982 ) had also earlier argued that they had insufficient legitimacy since members were neither elected or selected on the basis of expert knowledge , prerequisites of authority . |
| 6 | Three of the drivers concerned had argued that they had been unfairly selected for redundancy because there were drivers with less service who had been retained at other quarries . |
| 7 | It may be argued that they had a particular point to make about regiments and an anxiety to see funds spent not in one direction , but another . |
| 8 | It has been argued that they derived their name from that of Kenchester , which is identified as the Magnis of both the Antonine Itinerary and the Ravenna list , suggesting some tradition of local continuity , but there remain serious problems with this suggested derivation . |
| 9 | Strictly speaking , collocations represent syntagmatic and paradigmatic knowledge rather than semantic , but it is argued that they represent the implicit application of syntactic , semantic and pragmatic knowledge [ Sharman , 1990 ] , and for reasons of simplicity have been referred to as a source of semantic information . |
| 10 | They amount to an inducement to encourage employees to accept overseas postings although it can be argued that they do offset the additional costs which may be incurred through unfamiliarity with customs , language and general way of life . |
| 11 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 12 | Although many sociologists see professionals as a distinctive part of the upper middle class , others have argued that they have much in common with managers . |
| 13 | They are good educative examples of the search process , but it can be argued that they have little to do with practical intelligence . |
| 14 | In view of developments it might be argued that they have been justified in this view . |
| 15 | Responsibility lies with the SROs , but it could be argued that they have insufficient resources to carry out this role , and should merely be ombudsmen ( although there is also some doubt as to their ability to act in this limited capacity given their degree of underfunding ) . |
| 16 | Emboldened by their own good fortune , the Maronites even argued that they did not need their Syrian saviours in the streets of Christian east Beirut . |
| 17 | Although slides and photos have been the traditional medium , and are widely accepted as substitutes for the landscape ( Shuttleworth , 1980b ) , Kreimer ( 1977 ) has also argued that they need to be put more fully into their context . |
| 18 | Just because contemporary reality does not readily correspond to some of the classical notions of what democracy is , some twentieth-century writers have argued that we need to revise our conception of democracy itself , to suit what is realistically possible in modern advanced societies . |
| 19 | ( Rosten , 1968 : 443-4 ) Although person deixis is reflected directly in the grammatical categories of person , it may be argued that we need to develop an independent pragmatic framework of possible participant-roles , so that we can then see how , and to what extent , these roles are grammaticalized in different languages . |
| 20 | Private ownership is also justified because by permitting individual property owners to pursue their own self-interest in a competitive market it is argued that we achieve an optimal allocation of society 's resources . |
| 21 | It could also be argued that we did so despite any better understanding of the essential problem : how do we establish causal relationships between inputs , low-level outputs and ultimate outputs , reliably ? |
| 22 | discounting : it is argued that we attribute our first impressions to the person ( e.g. to a person 's traits or abilities ) , and later or more recent information to the situation ( e.g. the task , environment , influence of other people ) . |
| 23 | It could be argued that he saw it as something of a homecoming : Neil had attended Yeovil Grammar School for a time when his father 's work took the family there . |
| 24 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 25 | It can be argued that he won the election not because of the Tory campaign but in spite of it . |
| 26 | For , just as the individual has the moral right not to kill in violation of his own moral principles , a right recognised by law in this country since 1916 , so also it can be argued that he has the right not to be required to contribute through his taxes towards the maintenance of a professional army equipped with weapons of mass destruction to kill on his behalf . |
| 27 | It was argued that it allows litigation which would otherwise not be brought , that the lawyers involved act more conscientiously on behalf of their client because of the mutual financial interests , and that it is a simpler method of payment . |
| 28 | It could be argued that it came too late to correct the inequity completely , but at least it was a partial correction . |
| 29 | It might also be argued that it functions as metonymy , in which some element closely associated with the prime function of the whole comes to stand in for it . |
| 30 | Pornographic eroticism , I will argue , is , therefore , to be condemned , but it does not function in quite the way some feminists have argued that it does . |