Example sentences of "argue [that] it [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wittgenstein argued that it is not possible to spell out necessary and sufficient conditions for an activity to be a game . |
| 2 | It still represents a cost to the Exchequer and a loss of potential output , but it can be argued that it is not particularly distressing to the people concerned and , for the economy as a whole , it may actually result in a more efficient use of labour : this is because high short-run unemployment may be a reflection of greater mobility of labour between jobs and areas and consequently may result in the labour force being more suitably and productively employed . |
| 3 | Whether any alternative leadership could have gone further in this direction in the 1960s and 1970s is an open question , but I have argued that it is not useful to conceive of the record so far as merely one of ‘ betrayal ’ . |
| 4 | This chapter has argued that it is not only national population size , composition and behaviour that matter but also their changing patterns across regional and urban systems . |
| 5 | However , there are good reasons for not limiting a discussion of language processing to sentences , since in many ways the sentence is not the most appropriate psychological unit — and , indeed , some authors have argued that it is not the most appropriate unit for linguistic analysis . |
| 6 | Although it could be argued that it is not really chronology continuing ( as suggested by the chapter title ) because there had been insufficient time specification before 1950 , the sequence of this chapter proceeds from the basic foundations , to the alternative models , to sea level changes , Quaternary geography and hence to the prospect of environmental change . |
| 7 | Because the choice of opting out is largely represented to parents , former pupils and the local community as a means of securing a better financial arrangement from the DES than has been possible with the local authority , it is sometimes argued that it is not ethos or education but funding which alone lies at the heart of the decision . |
| 8 | ( 1988 ) argue that it is not necessary to propose a separate memory mechanism such as that proposed by Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) to account for flashbulb memories . |
| 9 | I 'm , I 'm , quite amazed that , that , the question has even been asked , you know , that er that , that , er is this a good thing , I mean er presumably the people that are arguing that it 's not a good thing and that are concerned about events are actually condoning imperialism , er these people seem to think that it 's okay for a country to be occupied er like Poland was occupied by Germany and Czechoslovakia and France , that 's okay er and in fact you know we should just turn a blind eye to it and just let it carry on forever . |
| 10 | They are arguing that it is not fair to have the ‘ haves ’ and the ‘ have-nots ’ ; it 's not fair to have a north and south divide . |
| 11 | More radically still , Derrida works at the limits of any possible philosophy of history , arguing that it is not just that the problems of hermeneutics , specifically of interpretation and language , affect historical understanding , but that what in a broad sense he calls writing , or différance , determines history . |
| 12 | I have spent many hours of my life arguing that it is not necessary to have been in prison to write convincingly about prison conditions , not to be poor to declaim on the evils of poverty , nor black to describe racial discrimination . |
| 13 | When others urge caution for electoral reasons , he argues that it 's not worth being in government if you ca n't do the things you believe in . |
| 14 | Indeed , in proclaiming its independence , the Responsible Society argues that it is not affiliated to any political party , pressure group or religious body . |
| 15 | Another collection , edited by Sandra Harding and Merrill Hintikka , Discovering Reality ( 1983 ) , a wide-ranging and challenging selection of essays in epistemology , metaphysics , methodology and philosophy of science , argues that it is not just content but also methodological assumptions and epistemology which show male bias . |
| 16 | He argues that it is not just that the long waves each have a different pattern but that regional differentiation , and regional political and social movements , are crucial to the shape of long waves themselves . |
| 17 | Winkler argues that it is not , meaning that the state must be concerned with flexibility , bargaining , negotiation and even the orchestration of private power . |
| 18 | On the other hand , one can argue that it 's not about , necessarily , what individuals want to do , it 's about providing a framework that is good in health and safety terms . |
| 19 | And if it is not ( and I will argue that it is not ) then to what extent does this tradition of anguished regret for the past hinder our actions in the present and the future ? … |
| 20 | And if it is not ( and I will argue that it is not ) then to what extent does this tradition of anguished regret for the past hinder our actions in the present and in the future ? |