Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] not arguing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not arguing that the lack of feminist analysis makes the accounts unsatisfactory , but rather that indisputable facts are actually withheld and half of society is virtually ignored . |
| 2 | I am not arguing here for a return to streaming or special provision for children with exceptional gifts . |
| 3 | I am not arguing that moral rights get their sole authority from contiguous laws , although they can , but rather that the existence of such laws , having been passed in a deliberative and ultimately democratic manner and being constantly under test by the legislature , is evidence that these types of transaction are important enough for the maintenance of civilised life as to require such formal recognition . |
| 4 | I am not arguing that children do not suffer at the hands of adults ; clearly they do and again we have looked at the evidence concerning incidence and prevalence . |
| 5 | I am not arguing for shoddy commercials . |
| 6 | As stressed earlier , I am not arguing for a revived regional geography per se , but rather for ‘ a regional perspective that informs all geographical activity ’ Johnston , 1990b , p. 135 ) . |
| 7 | I am not arguing that there are no uses for a conceptual demarcation of classes quite distinct from the demarcations present within popular ideology — on the contrary , I have used such a demarcation in previous chapters — but I am arguing that the latter demarcations have a real importance and should not be dismissed as merely ‘ subjective ’ . |
| 8 | ( I am not arguing that the Americans do not themselves engage in all manner of protectionist devices , but merely note that they do at least have an intrinsic belief in the benefits of Adam Smith 's hidden hand , a view which is not wholly shared on the Continent of Europe . ) |
| 9 | I am not arguing that nervos can be reduced to hunger alone , or that nervos is an exclusively poor or working-class phenomenon . |
| 10 | Although the Utting report , which was published in the summer , made it clear that training was not the central issue in such cases , I am not arguing that professionalism is not important . |
| 11 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not arguing . ’ |
| 13 | Bill Reynolds runs an organic farm in Somerset and makes arguably — though I 'm not arguing — the best bacon in England . |
| 14 | And I know it 's important to be equal in careers and to have equal opportunities and I 'm not arguing against that , but I also think that perhaps , in doing so some women also lose the pride in being a woman , and e equality is n't being a man , which I think some feminists take that view , that they 're not equal to a man unless they 're earning money . |
| 15 | ‘ Look , I 'm not arguing about the rapes . |
| 16 | Erm the referee said it was for offside I mean I 'm not I 'm not arguing about we 'll we 'll think about that after the game . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not arguing , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 18 | I 'm not arguing |
| 19 | Okay bu yes now I 'm not arguing that for some depressed people it 's there 's always side effects of some kind , okay , Peter , I wanted to ask you a very personal question . |
| 20 | Well I 'm not arguing for the exclusion of eleven , I 'm just trying to er give a balanced interpretation as to how it should be assessed . |
| 21 | I 'm not arguing that we should put more vehicles round the North Eastern side , I 'm just thinking that this traffic use reflects the , the imbalance in the region . |
| 22 | I , I 'm not arguing with you . |
| 23 | I 'm not arguing with it . |
| 24 | I 'm not arguing ! |
| 25 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 26 | I 'm not arguing about that at all , but the people of Wheatley have a right to the same protection that everybody else has under the planning axe . |
| 27 | ‘ As long as you are n't arguing that we should deliberately suppress knowledge or reject scientific progress just because the discoveries can be abused . |
| 28 | This tells them you are not arguing — you are willing to compromise and come to an agreement . |
| 29 | We are not arguing that either is necessarily an illegitimate exercise , only that it is significant that these things are done in the name of urban regeneration . |
| 30 | We are not arguing that everything is predetermined . |