Example sentences of "[vb -s] be argued " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church . |
| 2 | It has been argued that one could help to break that circle by integrating the school system ( Fraser 1974 ; Heskin 1980 ) . |
| 3 | It has been argued that Britain could adopt their position , but would eventually move to narrower trading margins . |
| 4 | It has been argued that the Famine led to a long-term levelling process amongst the afflicted peasantry , thus keeping the ‘ kulak ’ at bay in the stricken areas . |
| 5 | Third , it has been argued that Abelard 's theory is too subjective . |
| 6 | It has been argued that this is a description of a patinated alloy . |
| 7 | It has been argued that at this stage ‘ the growth of Protestantism was far from a major problem ’ ; its spread , and the numbers involved , were very limited . |
| 8 | It has been argued that diesel takes a much smaller amount of process heat to refine , and is therefore more environmentally considerate all round . |
| 9 | It has been argued , for example , that the majority of the 30,000 government employees in the reafforestation programme in two of the poorest regions of southern Italy are uneconomically employed . |
| 10 | It has been argued ( 12 ) that the use of arable land for livestock production is wasteful and this activity ought to be confined to the ‘ upland ’ areas . |
| 11 | It has been argued , falsely I believe ( 22 ) , that investment in this sector of agriculture , as has occurred in the lowlands , will necessarily lead to a fall in the rural population . |
| 12 | It has been argued that these divisions within the working class are unreconcilable and prevent it acting as a strong , united , radical force . |
| 13 | A central concern must now be exactly that which was identified by Dent nearly 50 years ago — the ‘ threat to democracy ’ , which it has been argued is also present , although manifested in a different form , in the changes in the legal framework to the university sector . |
| 14 | It has been argued that Napoleon III was influenced by the example of London , a city which at the beginning of his reign he knew better than Paris , for he had lived longer in it , and that the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes were the equivalent of London 's Royal parks . |
| 15 | If we accept ( and the case has been argued in detail with respect to habituation ; Chapter 2 , pp. 50–3 ) that the presentation of S2 modify the representation of S1 that is formed , then generalization decrement will ensure that little latent inhibition will be evident after S1 — S2 pre-exposure . |
| 16 | Certainly it has been argued for a discrete stimulus trained as an occasion setter that subsequently presenting it alone will not produce a loss of occasion-setting power ( e.g. Rescorla 1986 ) ( but see also Ross 1983 ; Holland and Gory 1986 ) . |
| 17 | The second , it has been argued , formed the basis of the portraits of Augustus , and in that capacity the doryphoros achieved heroic proportions . |
| 18 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 19 | It has been argued by a former Chief Advisory Officer of the Nature Conservancy Council that the implications for wildlife conservation may be considerable . |
| 20 | Indeed it has been argued that 1945 to 1951 was government by committee — hundreds of them — rather than Government by Cabinet . |
| 21 | Second , it has been argued ( Stewart , 1987 ) that one major ( if implicit ) trend within the Urban Programme was its determination to utilize inner-city intervention as a mechanism through which to address Problems associated with black communities . |
| 22 | It has been argued by some that training plays no part in refining the skills of headship which can only be learned through experience ; presumably the proponents of this view would say that it also applies to officers . |
| 23 | ( 11.30 ) In Section 10.2 it has been argued that this solution must be considered to be unphysical on its own , but it may be included as a factor in more general solutions . |
| 24 | Just as the post-war local government system can be understood as a key element of the social-democratic consensus developed in that period , so it has been argued that ‘ what is needed is a new municipal culture ’ to fit the changed social and economic realities of the late twentieth century ( Walker , 1983 , p. 10 ) . |
| 25 | Sometimes it has been argued that the evolution was the other way round ; and more recently still it has been argued that no evolution in either direction took place . |
| 26 | Sometimes it has been argued that the evolution was the other way round ; and more recently still it has been argued that no evolution in either direction took place . |
| 27 | For some strange optical reason this makes it look bigger than it really is and it has been argued that this illusion would have the effect of making an attacking lion misjudge its leap , striking short of the true position of the prey . |
| 28 | But against this theory it has been argued that over large parts of the zebra 's range , insects are not a major problem , so without further analysis the idea is once again inconclusive . |
| 29 | It has been argued that death-feigning in natural circumstances is of comparatively little use and far too risky to become a major defence strategy . |
| 30 | It has been argued that a de-clawed cat can learn to use its teeth more when grooming . |