Example sentences of "argument [prep] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the information found may lend itself to various forms of presentation , ranging from fact sheets to some kind of argument for or against various issues . |
| 2 | I think there are a variety of ways Mr Chairman , in which our environmental strategy , when it 's formulated , could be publicised and that 's one way forward , and I wonder whether director could perhaps incorporate an argument for or against that , i , in , in , i , in the paper that Councillor has suggested . |
| 3 | Since the presumption of both ‘ meaning ’ theist and ‘ meaning ’ atheist is that each can understand and criticise what the other is saying , the main arguments for and against theism can be brought out by following through the position of either . |
| 4 | The Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association ( AMMA ) in 1985 studied the arguments for and against access and concluded , ‘ the opening up of school records to parents and older students would greatly reduce understandable , if unfounded , fears of needless secrecy , … serve to strengthen the relationship between educational establishments , parents and pupils … [ and ] improve the quality and value of the records . |
| 5 | A good technique is to have a flip chart or white board , divide it with a line down the middle and ask someone to write up the arguments for and against . |
| 6 | New Scientist mourned the decay of that Victorian exuberance , the seaside pier , described Eire as a hive of electronic industry and indicated foreboding about the government 's attitude to forking out money for wave power schemes , at the same time laying out all the arguments for and against test-tube babies . |
| 7 | His right to sit was first referred to a select committee of the House of Commons which reported , somewhat unhelpfully , that there were arguments for and against his right to sit , and recommended clarifying legislation which , however , has not been forthcoming . |
| 8 | The arguments for and against task allocation are therefore quite mixed . |
| 9 | First , the arguments for and against are so soporifically dull that no one will ever stay interested long enough to sort the question out . |
| 10 | Among the dozens of glues now available the arguments for and against are mostly on the grounds of ease of application , durability and cost . |
| 11 | The document stated that the arguments for and against would be set out in some detail . |
| 12 | The history of TDC in the last decades has provided a remarkable case history of that problem , with examples of the arguments for and against each point of view . |
| 13 | The rest of the campaign will investigate producing practice guidelines for SSDs ; training strategies ; how elderly people disclose ( or do n't disclose ) abuse ; how assessment , and the Community Care Act in general , can take account of elder abuse ; providing support for carers ; arguments for the registration of private domiciliary care ; arguments for and against ‘ at risk registers ’ of elderly people ; models of good practice from SSDs ; and opportunities to learn from child protection legislation . |
| 14 | Famine victims in Africa , Vietnamese boat people and Poles striving to leave their Communist past behind them compete for air-time with home stories such as pastoral work in Dublin 's inner city or the arguments for and against integrated schooling in Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | It is proposed , despite the fact that it is the unorthodox view of insider dealing which is singled out for special attention , to review the policy arguments for and against the use of inside information , even where at times the debate seems more applicable to the traditional view of insider dealing . |
| 16 | It was not simply the well-rehearsed and deeply felt arguments for and against abolition which exercised and divided its members , but the proper role of the Government on what was seen as a question of conscience . |
| 17 | ( 7.4 ) Arguments for and against an atomistic approach |
| 18 | Chapter 1 has already made reference to the dominance of this approach in the USA , and Chapter 8 will consider some of the arguments for and against it . |
| 19 | The arguments for and against this approach to curriculum planning and evaluation are well documented elsewhere . |
| 20 | The arguments for and against a government regional policy in industry are old and well-rehearsed . |
| 21 | Arguments for and against television can be summarized briefly . |
| 22 | Faced with this challenge , the Labour Government issued a consultative document in 1976 , Devolution : the English Dimension , which outlined arguments for and against the establishment of elected regional authorities in England . |
| 23 | Since the arguments for and against co-operative R&D ventures turn on the existence of externalities , it is useful to organize the discussion around the three of these which have featured prominently in the literature : technological spillovers , pecuniary externalities , and environmental externalities ( for other taxonomies , see Spence , 1984 , Dasgupta , 1 98 8 , and the excellent survey by Katz and Ordover , 1990 ; on co-operation in R&D more generally , see Teece , 1992 , and Baumol , 1992 ) . |
| 24 | Dr Greenaway used The British Deaf News for making his own views known : " We do not intend to repeat yet once again all the arguments for and against the retention of the word " dumb " , he wrote in February 1970 ; " what is important , however , is to emphasise the fact that in the mind of the general public and even more completely in the minds of modem generations of deaf boys and girls the word " dumb " is out . |
| 25 | I could go on writing arguments for and against all night . |
| 26 | There are contested arguments for and against charging for social services , which resemble the more general argument about markets we reviewed in Chapter 3 . |
| 27 | THE ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST |
| 28 | The reader is therefore asked to absorb the various arguments for and against portfolio matrices throughout this chapter , but to reserve judgement on the issue until later . |
| 29 | Discuss the arguments for and against the adoption of a Bill of Rights in Great Britain . |
| 30 | Outline the arguments for and against the late heavy bombardment of a terrestrial planet occurring after its formation . |