Example sentences of "[pers pn] argue that " in BNC.

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31 I argue that the supposed problematic taxa , now in immin- ent danger of elevation to a classic status as evolutionary enigmas , hold the key to understanding many aspects of early metazoan evolution .
32 In other words , I argue that the social work service offered to permanent new families , whatever their initial or planned legal status , should be different from that offered to the majority of foster families .
33 In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension .
34 It is recognisable even when it appears in feminist dress , as it does , for example , in these remarks of Hester Eisenstein ( 1984 ) : ‘ I argue that feminist theory has moved from an emphasis on the elimination of gender difference to a celebration of that difference as a source of moral values .
35 In chapters 4 and 5 I expose defects in the crudest form of foundationalism , and in chapters 6 and 7 I argue that we have a more general reason to avoid any sort of foundationalism , a reason derived from considerations in the theory of meaning .
36 I argue that unless such a ship is built , the Yek can never cross the Great Sea or circumnavigate the world , ’ Alexei responded .
37 Here I argue that Bourdieu 's fields are very much like Weber 's economic , aesthetic , political , etc. ‘ life orders ’ ( Lebensordnungen ) .
38 Secondly , on the issue of the precedents for making a defendant prove his defence in the way in which the Bill requires , I argue that every year — certainly since I have been in the House — we have created numerous new offences which have defences attached to them , usually for those who can show that they acted reasonably or that they used due diligence to ensure that they avoided committing an offence .
39 I argue that the effect of this on the size of the search space was concealed during the ARPA project as much by the design of the systems as by poor front-end processing .
40 In this chapter I argue that the legislative principle is so much part of our political practice that no competent interpretation of that practice can ignore it .
41 And then these overall evaluations change too , so you have a long evolutionary process here , you see , the working out of human evaluations , and while you wo n't get you wo n't get total agreement that the you will erm some sort of co-ordination and the particularly I argue that while there 's an area sort of in the middle , as it were , where you can get away with all sorts of things , you see , there are cliffs .
42 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 .
43 Likewise she argued that the feminist versions of Althusserian concepts of ideology overemphasised textuality at the expense of social and economic analysis .
44 This was the first case in Tanzania of its kind : she argued that she was dismissed because of her sex .
45 She argued that Marx 's schema of reproduction became unbalanced if one assumed such an increase in the organic composition of capital .
46 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 . ’
47 She argued that the Bulletin of March 1992 , in recognising the role of religion in the formation of group identities , was colluding with the oppression of women 's rights .
48 She argued that , if she could show that what was regarded as normal behaviour in the United States in fact varies from one society to another , then it followed that such behaviour could not be the result of people 's biological characteristics but rather of their culture .
49 He refused , whereupon she argued that he was impeding and delaying justice by cavillaciones et diffugia ( ‘ quibbling objections and subterfuges ’ ) , and aimed to dispossess her not only of Bigorre , but of her vicomté of Marsan as well .
50 Acknowledging that it would appear unjust to pay higher allowances out of taxation to the middle classes , she argued that it would only be possible if the higher allowances were paid for by the income groups or occupations which benefitted from them .
51 Finally they relented when she argued that they were simply wasting their money .
52 She argued that if women were paid the same as men " it would result in many women being dismissed from many trades " , and also accepted without demur , when giving evidence to the Fair Wages Committee a few years later , the proposition that women were satisfied with less money because they were earning " pin money " if married , and " pocket money " if not.38 With such pessimism about equal pay entrenched in the mind of their organizers , with such low evaluation being set on their work , one might argue that it would have been surprising if a militant women 's union could really be organized in the prevailing atmosphere .
53 She argued that this was consistent with the view that the auditory pathways from each ear to the contralateral cerebral cortex are more effective than the ipsilateral pathways from each ear to the same side of the brain .
54 She argued that contemporary social reform was becoming too institutionalized and bureaucratic ; the present tendency was towards ‘ centralization of rule , to vast combinations , large institutions and uniformity of system ’ .
55 In an article in The English Review in 1913 she argued that the legislation had been carried by hysterical stories circulated by ‘ neuropaths and prudes ’ about the entrapment of white women .
56 She was not heeded and later she argued that the party provided an extraordinary , unparalleled forum for kings and communists , dictators and democrats and that the attention given around the world to Iranian history and culture was invaluable .
57 She argued that women by nature were no less talented than men .
58 In A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery ( 1760 ) , she argued that male practitioners lacked patience and sensitivity , and were too quick to resort to metal instruments , causing needless infant deaths .
59 Much of their scholarship was carried out mutually , with Mill attributing to her a key chapter in his Principles of Political Economy , entitled ‘ On the Probable Future of the Labouring Classes ’ ( 1848 ) , in which she argued that the working classes must receive a thorough education in order to contribute to the country 's economic and social progress .
60 She argued that if the second statement in a pair contained a negative then it would be more natural for the meaning of the two statements to be different , whereas if the two statements were both affirmative it would be more natural for the two statements to have the same meaning .
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