Example sentences of "argue that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued that fluctuations in the earth 's climate due to geological changes might alter the proportion of reptiles and mammals in the population . |
| 2 | Indeed they argued that girls developed sub-cultures which were more passive and marginal than those of boys and involved doing things such as sitting around in their bedrooms worshipping pop stars . |
| 3 | The earlier feminist critics such as McRobbie and Garber argued that girls learned their roles partly through romantic fiction and girls ' magazines . |
| 4 | Not all the 14–15 people who nominated Ken Livingstone and Bernie Grant wanted either of them to run ( Benn of all people argued that policies would be obscured by personalities ) and some members of the group sided with Gould or Prescott . |
| 5 | Mary Carpenter , in 1851 , argued that charges would be necessary in her proposed reformatory schools because otherwise unscrupulous parents would ‘ throw the charge of their children 's bodily wants [ and ] those of their moral training … on the State ’ ( Judge and Matthews , 1980 ) . |
| 6 | Later , in their survey of new teachers in school , they argued that teachers who were insecure in their subject material adopted |
| 7 | He again argued that cities were themselves the cauldron in which the transition from the old to the new societies was taking place ; and , crucially , cities were themselves actively generating a new way of life . |
| 8 | In an article in Capital Gay in February 1988 , Paul Davies argued that lesbians and gays had made a mistake in allowing our politics ‘ to be colonized by the Left ’ . |
| 9 | Our porn challenges the received myths about our love-making , as Gillian Rodgerson pointed out when she argued that lesbians need to produce their own because ‘ then the myth that all lesbian sex is two women lounging around waiting for a man to join them , might finally be exploded . ’ |
| 10 | He argued that consultants were tending to stay put by the mid-1980s because of the much higher start-up costs now involved in setting up an executive search firm , which he estimated as at least £250 000 , or ten times the figure he invested back in 1973 . |
| 11 | Gouldner argued that rules are both functional and dysfunctional in a bureaucracy . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The committee argued that conditions , standards and attitudes had changed so greatly since the early days of minerals planning that a major recasting of the legislative framework was needed . |
| 14 | In this paper Keynes argued that imports were being efficiently controlled and were close to the minimum for essentials . |
| 15 | Hickford in High Street Ward argued that females employed by the council should make way for unemployed ex-servicemen . |
| 16 | He argued that adults must first learn how to live the new social order before trying to teach it . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In his first memorandum as Minister of Internal Affairs he argued that nobles were justified in saying that the emancipation threatened their economic interests . |
| 19 | Best , for example , argued that changes had been immense : " In just five years ( the NHS ) has been transformed from a classic example of an administered public sector bureaucracy into one that increasingly is exhibiting the qualities that reflect positive , purposeful management " ( Best 1987 : 4 ) . |
| 20 | Monetarists argued that changes in money supply have a direct and powerful effect . |
| 21 | He argued that scientists have shown that even in some metals there is a vestige of the spark of life , and there are some metals of which it is difficult to say whether they are alive or not . |
| 22 | The spate of similar lecturers , articles and tracts was a stunning confirmation of the critics who argued that scientists could spout such one-dimensional , unrealistic drivel only because they and their science was equally one-dimensional . |
| 23 | While some participants argued that values such as freedom of the press and freedom of expression were ‘ western ’ ideas which robbed Africa of its authenticity , others reacted sharply by arguing that it was high time to consolidate democratic societies which are founded on inalienable rights . |
| 24 | While some participants argued that values such as freedom of the press and freedom of expression were ‘ western ’ ideas which robbed Africa of its authenticity , others reacted sharply by arguing that it was high time to consolidate democratic societies which are founded on inalienable rights . |
| 25 | In one of the most influential pieces of feminist research on sex differences ever produced , the psychologist Carol Gilligan argued that women and men tend to use different criteria and reasoning procedures in coming to moral decisions . |
| 26 | We opposed the machista attitudes that the beauty contests promoted and argued that women were being used to divert the attention of men and women from the social and economic contradictions of our country . |
| 27 | Both argued that women needed to play a decisive role in public debate over the nation 's morals , precisely because it was women who were centrally concerned with sexuality . |
| 28 | She argued that women by nature were no less talented than men . |
| 29 | Anna Martin preferred the approach of feminists such as Clementina Black , a former President of the Women 's Industrial Council and the head of its Investigation Committee , who argued that women should have a legal right to a certain portion of their husband 's wage . |
| 30 | Both Fawcett and Frances Power Cobbe argued that women 's virtue , tenderness and eye for detail — in short the special qualities they developed as wives and mothers — were necessary to complete man-made legislation and male-supervised charitable endeavours . |