Example sentences of "[pers pn] argued [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I argued that the representational theory of mind , with its assumption that thinking is the possession of determinate ‘ mental states ’ which are in some sense encodings ( pictorial , syntactic ) of actual or possible states of affairs , contributes to the difficulty of the mind-body problem . |
| 2 | In an earlier Chapter I argued that the canon is ‘ bursting ’ , because of the advent of other anglophone literatures , and the increasing interest in contemporary writing . |
| 3 | In the first chapter I argued that the fact that the Scots settlers and the Irish natives were respectively Calvinists and Roman Catholics had profound consequences for the development of social conflict . |
| 4 | I argued that drama is not in itself direct , that indeed its power lies in its seeming directness . |
| 5 | One of my friends said he was a romantic boy who thought he bore a charmed life , but I argued that this was a superficial judgment . |
| 6 | I argued that the application of this principle would mean in effect the employment of a sub-unit of five men to cover a target previously requiring four troops of a commando , i.e. , about 200 men . |
| 7 | I argued that one could never trust the Russian leaders . |
| 8 | The only time we sharply disagreed occurred when near the end of our deliberations I argued that we should say far more about classroom practice . |
| 9 | In this address I also criticised the fashion of ‘ deconstruction ’ , and I argued that we can effectively understand the cultures of alien peoples and remote epochs , although , naturally , we can also misunderstand them . |
| 10 | I argued that there was a lack of clarity ( or clear research evidence ) concerning what these appropriate qualities might be , an unfortunate tendency to abstract approved-of skills from consideration of the contextual circumstances in which they might need to be employed , and an inclination to present a one-sided interpretation of the implications of specialist subject expertise for teaching quality . |
| 11 | Thirdly , and consequentially , I argued that the elements of harmful consequences liability which are exhibited by the criminal law do not disqualify it from the status of positive moral order , because conventional morality ( as opposed to the critical morality of Kant or Smith , for example ) incorporates a notion of moral luck and indeed our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without some such idea . |
| 12 | Blues too is commonly regarded as centrally to do with the expression of alienated subjectivity caught within oppressive social structures ; in a previous book ( Middle ton 1972 ) I argued that the effects of this are apparent in the musical form itself-in disjunctive structures , an immanently contradictory musical language and a commitment to ‘ authentic ’ self-expression — and I drew parallels with modernist art . |
| 13 | I have already cast some doubt on point ( b ) , or at least on the political effects which Marx assumed would be consequent on the concentration of labour ( Chapter 1 ) , while in the discussion of planning I argued that although point ( a ) may be broadly accepted it is by no means unproblematic , particularly given the fact that large-scale enterprises increasingly straddle national boundaries . |
| 14 | However , I argued that we should not suppose that the essentially competitive process he proposed implies a competitive outcome . |
| 15 | I argued that individuals can gain great advantage from their ability to refine and enrich their methods of communication by this means . |
| 16 | In that case , I argued that Darwin 's idea of natural selection would lead us to the correct answer . |
| 17 | In Chapter 2 , I argued that the emancipatory conception of higher education — as I termed it — is to be found historically in the deep structure of the concept of higher education ( and I developed the idea in Chapter 8 , in discussing emancipation as the highest form of rationality ) . |
| 18 | In Chapter Three I argued that a postmodernist culture that foregrounded ‘ desire ’ signalled somehow a renunciation of signification . |
| 19 | I argued that in most cases it was quite clear that the projects officers had not paid any serious attention to gender issues . |
| 20 | The reader will recall that I argued that this meant satisfactorily surmounting the three stages of psychosexual growth which psychoanalysis discovered long ago to be typical of most individuals in our culture . |
| 21 | In Chapter 2 , I argued that it is very important to test the system as a whole as early as possible rather than to develop components in isolation . |
| 22 | I argued that on some occasions there might simply not be enough acoustic information to make a decision , and cited psycholinguistic experiments on the intelligibility of words in certain contexts . |
| 23 | In the earlier part of this chapter I argued that conventionalism fits our legal practices badly . |
| 24 | I argued and complained , and refused fifty times , but in the end he forced me to agree . |
| 25 | I argued and pleaded … |
| 26 | Unfortunately , Doane 's conclusion was no less pessimistic than Mulvey 's as to the radical potential of this gaze , since she argued that the film narrative in these cases effectively forced the female spectator into a masochistic identification with the female protagonist . |
| 27 | Likewise she argued that the feminist versions of Althusserian concepts of ideology overemphasised textuality at the expense of social and economic analysis . |
| 28 | This was the first case in Tanzania of its kind : she argued that she was dismissed because of her sex . |
| 29 | She argued that Marx 's schema of reproduction became unbalanced if one assumed such an increase in the organic composition of capital . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |