Example sentences of "argue that [noun] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | It argued that work is continually de-skilled and degraded through the interaction of technical change and international patterns of capital accumulation . |
| 2 | He argued that Realism is based on three foundation stones , all to be found in the writings of Machiavelli . |
| 3 | Darwin argued that classification is an expression of genealogy : closely related species show a basic similarity because they share a recent common ancestor . |
| 4 | He argued that Yeltsin is in political trouble now specifically because he and other democrats have demonstrated their commitment to reform by expanding civil liberties , cutting the military budget and freeing prices . |
| 5 | He argued that society is at bottom a system of organization for producing the goods on which people depend for their life . |
| 6 | Situationism argued that society is a ‘ spectacle ’ , a false projection which masks our alienation from our true selves ; it is ‘ culture ’ which supplies the spectacle , obscuring the reality of exploitation . |
| 7 | Bachrach and Baratz ( 1970 ) argued that power is also exercised when some groups are prevented from raising issues that are against the interests of the powerful . |
| 8 | Lukes argued that power is not always about making decisions or taking actions but may result from the way in which ‘ the system works ’ . |
| 9 | Dahl argued that power is fragmented between the different groups involved in the decision-making process since different groups got their way on different issues . |
| 10 | Indeed , Schumpeter ( 1976 ) argued that democracy is really about competition between competing elites for the votes of the people and that democracy did not require mass participation . |
| 11 | But in 1.4 we argued that monism is more suited to opaque than transparent styles of writing , and the same point may be made about pluralism . |
| 12 | On the one hand , the Bhatta-Mimamsaka school argued that time is perceptible , whereas their Nyaya-Vaiseka opponents claimed that it is only an inferred concept because it lacks sensible qualities , such as colour , form , etc . |
| 13 | AS LONG AGO as the 19th century , Franz Brentano argued that mind is essentially intentional , and that conscious states always require cognitively-held objects , even though these may not exist in the physical world . |
| 14 | I argued that drama is not in itself direct , that indeed its power lies in its seeming directness . |
| 15 | But European Commissioner Bruce Millan has long argued that Britain is out of step because it includes European money in its allocations to local authorities . |
| 16 | Of course , it could be argued that purpose is not confined to use in a functional sense but also encompasses the enjoyment which the buyer can reasonably expect from his purchase . |
| 17 | The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger . |
| 18 | Dahrendorf , however , has argued that alienation is irrelevant to empirical social science , ‘ since no amount of empirical research can either confirm or refute it ’ . |
| 19 | It has often been argued that Marxism is largely based on a utopian ideology , functionalism on a ruling ideology . |
| 20 | If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority . |
| 21 | Thus , it has been argued that photography is the quintessential surrealist art form , that photographs are like ‘ death masks ’ , like footprints in the sense of being ‘ imprints of the real ’ ( Krauss 1985b , p. 110 ) . |
| 22 | It is argued that birth is an illogical and inappropriate criterion for membership . |
| 23 | It is therefore argued that translation is the specific practice of lawyers in terms of which their place in the social structure should be theorised . |
| 24 | It has already been argued that physics is constructed through a series of dualities in which physics is rated positively , and other disciplines , chiefly the arts , are rated negatively . |
| 25 | However , since we have argued that content is not the defining criterion of feminist perspectives , we are not claiming a new objectivity or neutrality . |
| 26 | For example , Chomsky has elegantly argued that syntax is logically prior to phonology , in that phonological description requires reference to syntactic categories , but not vice versa ; syntax is thus autonomous with respect to phonology , and phonology ( non-autonomous with respect to syntax ) can be envisaged as taking a syntactic input , on the basis of which phonological representations can be built up . |
| 27 | If this cycle obtains , then it is argued that government is controlled , and public policy is congruent with the wishes of the majority of the electorate for most of the time . |
| 28 | At a meeting in Harare of African finance officials in July 1989 , it was argued that development is being held up by the tendency for government policy-makers to be involved in short-term crisis management for structural adjustment programmes , and responding to the demands of large numbers of foreign advisers . |
| 29 | Having argued that sociology is rather closer to journalism and the literary arts than some might imagine , I now turn to consider those differences that do , after all , divide them : in particular what makes social science scientific ? |
| 30 | It has been argued that supply is more likely to show a positive response to relative price increases which are thought to be temporary than those that are thought to be permanent . |