Example sentences of "be [adv] argued " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been widely argued ( but see later ) that within the lowland Neotropics , the fragmentation of populations took place as a result of climatic and associated vegetational changes in the last 2 million years . |
| 2 | It has been effectively argued that live performance before an audience can be the most crucial part of a popular musician 's growth as an artist . |
| 3 | The terms of this participation have been endlessly argued about , and the increasing practice of the advance on royalties has to some extent modified it , in restoring an element of purchase . |
| 4 | The principle of whether features should or should not be binary ( i.e. ‘ + ’ or ‘ — ’ , ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ ) has been much argued about , but this is too big a question to go into here ( Hyman ( 1975 ) , pp. 32–3 , 55–8 ) . |
| 5 | It has even been mistakenly argued that at some point during the 1320s he fled to Paris and studied for a while at the Sorbonne . |
| 6 | The case for flexible budgets has been extensively argued by this writer elsewhere ( Cook , 1988 ; Cook & Perrin , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | The problem has , in fact , been extensively argued during recent years . |
| 8 | It has been convincingly argued that the image of an advice-giving agency is crucial because it is at the stage of identification of the appropriate agency that most people are obstructed on the way to the solution of their problem . |
| 9 | Indeed , it has recently been convincingly argued that there was an extensive network of minor officials , not all necessarily employed in the king 's service full-time , but all involved in some way , and to their own financial advantage . |
| 10 | Where , for example , a tenant covenants " to keep in repair the demised property and the windows , window frames , boilers and air conditioning plant " it might be successfully argued on his behalf that he is not liable to repair the doors because they were not mentioned in the catalogue . |
| 11 | In Class Inequality and Political Order , Frank Parkin unwittingly provides an illustration of how stratification by gender can be tautologically argued away . |
| 12 | Celsus suggested that they should be gently argued with rather than opposed , and that music and light reading might help to turn their thoughts into a more rational channel . |
| 13 | All these biological and psychological imperatives will continue to be much argued over . |
| 14 | The structure of the databases in terms of input and output formats must have been identical or similar but this did not seem to be sufficiently argued , instead the plaintiff concentrated on an argument that the structure of the two programs must have been similar . |
| 15 | If , however , one shifts the perspective , it can be convincingly argued that a ‘ democratic monarchy ’ with , at its head , an Emperor directly responsible to the people had need of a different set of values from those prevailing at St Petersburg or Vienna . |
| 16 | Yet although it may be true that many types and styles of kung fu began here , it can not be realistically argued that all the varieties of kung fu that were and are still practised in China have their roots in Shaolin . |
| 17 | In the case of the conscientious war-tax protester it is difficult to conceive of any such competing right which may be plausibly argued against them since their action neither threatens direct violence to others nor does it appear significantly to increase the risk of violent attack from elsewhere . |
| 18 | On the other hand , it can be validly argued that it would be asking too much from a private entity to provide the same public notice that public registries have provided . |
| 19 | The imponderables of the race make it what it is , a graveyard for favourites for a start , and if Old Applejack goes to the line at 50–1 it can be persuasively argued that he is a better bet than Cool Ground at 6–1 . |
| 20 | However , the latter point fails to take account of the fact that rape is committed even if there is no ejaculation , and even if the woman is infertile , and it has been strongly argued that ‘ penetration involving the penis , vagina or anus is perceived differently and regarded more seriously than other forms of penetration ’ . |
| 21 | Steps to provide common rules for employee participation in the management of public companies have been more controversial , and it has been strongly argued in the UK that a voluntary approach , reflecting the differing traditions of the member states in questions of employer-employee relations , is to be preferred to compulsory representation of employees on company boards . |
| 22 | The view that aggression is an integral part of human nature has been strongly argued for a long time by exceptionally articulate and persuasive individuals . |
| 23 | It has been strongly argued that the interpretation is mistaken . |
| 24 | It has been well argued that the payment having been voluntary , it can not be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 25 | It has been well argued that the payment having been voluntary , it can not be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 26 | Indeed , though the death of a single organism may not seem to be very significant scientifically , it has been well argued by George Dangerfield that this one event did , in effect , mark the end or at least the beginning of the end , of that remarkable period of human history dominated by " Liberal England " . |
| 27 | It has been well argued , for example , that the sabkha cycles of carbonate deposition are the equivalent , in arid tropical climates , of the Coal Measure type cycles of the sub-tropical or temperate zones . |
| 28 | It has been well argued that the development of the Atlantic began as far back as Precambrian times . |
| 29 | It has been well argued that the great procession , headed by the Host and including the orders of the Church and social guilds , interrupted by the plays performed by the guild members reminding followers of the archetypal story of God 's plan of salvation from the Creation to the Last Judgement , provided opportunity for participating in that sense of unity beyond division which is the heart of Christian belief , and which underpins the social value put on the more isolated lives of contemplatives . |
| 30 | It has been plausibly argued that the cutting of the folds ( which is very shallow ) was done during a retouching of the colour ( something which must have been a regular operation ; on colour see below , p. 28 ) . |