Example sentences of "argue that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another tract in the same Congregational Union series argued that to join a local church was , in effect , to join ‘ Christ 's universal church ’ , which was ‘ Christ 's own society ’ , not a ‘ private society organised by pious men . ’ |
| 2 | Egypt argued that protest put those States into dispute with Egypt as to the interpretation of the Armistice Agreement and the Suez Canal Convention . |
| 3 | The taxpayer argued that to rely on the substantial omissions from Mr Slade 's tax return as grounds for investigating Mr Kempton 's tax affairs was to imply guilt by association . |
| 4 | Flettner argued that rotating cylinders on the deck of a ship should replace sails in favourable wind conditions and bring great advantages in handling . |
| 5 | A long letter to The Bell argued that expecting Russia 's " educated classes " to solve the country 's problems was futile . |
| 6 | He argued that to implement a ‘ Non-Alignment Pact ’ in a civil war between an incumbent government supported by one Great Power and insurgents supported by another Great Power ‘ a coalition government must be formed comprising those elements of both Government and insurgent forces which are prepared to come to a compromise and work together in the context of non-alignment ’ . |
| 7 | He quotes Kettle ( 1982 ) who argued that according to the Home Office , 50 per cent of the population of Ashford remand centre were black , and for Brixton and Aylesbury prisons , remand prisoners were between 25 per cent and 35 per cent black . |
| 8 | Opponents argued that teaching other languages , especially those spoken at home , would impede the ability of children to speak and write English . |
| 9 | He argued that support for Inkatha , which had consistently opposed sanctions , was thus " non-party political " . |
| 10 | This was firmly denied by the Committee , both before and after publication , who argued that to urge a change in the law was not necessarily to approve or endorse homosexual behaviour . |
| 11 | Writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s , he argued that advanced capitalist societies were caught up in a major contradiction . |
| 12 | Bukharin rejected this since he argued that to do so would be to disregard the historical character of the dictatorship of the proletariat . |
| 13 | The government argued that reducing distortions in the labour market by cutting income tax would lead to efficiency gains that would far outweigh the valuation that society should put on a more equal income distribution . |
| 14 | Plato argued that to know yourself was the very essence of knowledge . |
| 15 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 16 | But Marx argued that falling rates of profit are an ironic consequence of investment in capital goods , which in the labour theory of value are seen as the products of past labour power , a stock of ‘ dead labour ’ . |
| 17 | In the 1830s , the British geologist Charles Lyell argued that to establish geology as a rigorous science , it had to be assumed that the forces that had sculpted the earth 's surface in the past were identical , both in kind and intensity , to those acting now . |
| 18 | It argued that state ownership was party policy , and that the limited private capital contemplated would provide little real incentive for investment . |
| 19 | While the Treasury was warning of a " continuing mountain of difficulties " for some years to come , the Foreign Office argued that to reduce overseas commitments would only make matters worse . |
| 20 | In contrast , social purists argued that to speak out was vital . |
| 21 | The restructuring school argued that to understand what was happening to the geography of British manufacturing at this time it was necessary to analyse this situation . |
| 22 | It is difficult to assess the total effect on employment of any assistance , but the 1988 Action for Cities statement ( HMSO , 1988a ) argued that UDGs provided nearly 30,000 jobs . |
| 23 | Marx argued that to compete in the market for commodities , capitalists had continually to increase their productivity and efficiency . |
| 24 | Although conservatives argued that visiting the shrine — particularly on Aug. 15 , the anniversary of the ending of the Pacific War — was a legitimate means of paying respect to the dead , others interpreted it as paying homage to an outdated militarist philosophy and its discredited adherents . |
| 25 | Mr Tsongas , a pro-business liberal , argued that to restart the campaign he abandoned three weeks ago for lack of funds would only make him a spoiler . |
| 26 | The brewers argued that introducing arbitration would inevitably slow down the process of negotiating agreements . |
| 27 | The Educational Institute of Scotland argued that introducing the policy nationally should be postponed until the future shape of local government was decided . |
| 28 | Much of the early commentary argued that improving the quality of working life was an appropriate social goal for modern industrial economies , where levels of education and affluence had increased living standards and aspiration levels . |
| 29 | For example , Phoenix , in her study of women who had their first child between the age of 16 and 19 , argued that contrasting the lives of Black and white women did little to illuminate their experiences of becoming a mother ( Phoenix , 1991 ) . |
| 30 | They argued that to avoid this it should be placed under trade union control . |