Example sentences of "it argue that " in BNC.

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1 I have also heard it argued that the term Weizenbier offers a better guarantee that the beer was made according to the convention that specifies a minimum of 50 per cent wheat .
2 It argued that state ownership was party policy , and that the limited private capital contemplated would provide little real incentive for investment .
3 It argued that in talking about inner cities it was vital to think in terms not just of individuals , but of society ; that the multiple deprivations of the worst hit areas affected all the residents ; that the consequences included a pervasive sense of neglect and decay , a decline in community spirit , a low standard of neighbourhood facilities , and an increase in crime and vandalism ; and that , without government intervention , the future was one of reduced job opportunities , deteriorating housing , and a decline in public services .
4 Those who advocated it argued that it was of no use to abolish selection at 11 + , in the name of justice and fairness , and then reintroduce selection a few months later , by streaming children once at school .
5 It argued that public-sector resources were substantial , ‘ but efforts need to be pulled together more effectively , and brought to bear in the same place at the same time ’ ( ibid .
6 It argued that , following normal legal procedure , Mr Roache should have to pay the costs incurred from the date of the settlement offer because the jury 's award failed to top it .
7 It argued that without them : it would not be possible , in practice , to operate a system of resale price maintenance because it would be impracticable for each publisher to specify his own conditions of sale ; booksellers would find it impossible to comply with all the varied terms imposed by different publishers ; booksellers would lose their assurance that they were not being undercut ; and the Association itself could not effectively monitor individual resale agreements .
8 It argued that work is continually de-skilled and degraded through the interaction of technical change and international patterns of capital accumulation .
9 It argued that Africa had hardly benefited from Bank programmes : though exports had improved , there had been no perceptible impact on growth or inflation , and investment had suffered .
10 It argued that there was a long history of use of such powers ; that , with the widening of the sphere of government , the use of delegated legislative powers was necessary for the efficient conduct of business in the modern state ; that the civil service was best placed to provide the expertise which was necessary to make effective use of these powers ; and that the way in which the powers were actually used in practice was such as to refute any claim of a ‘ new despotism ’ .
11 The Beveridge Report referred to both of these consequences when it argued that social security benefits should be of subsistence level only , allowing the individual , if he so wished , to make his own provision for higher benefits through voluntary insurance — which should also be positively encouraged by the government through tax allowances .
12 It argued that government control should be ‘ strategic guidance ’ and should be exercised as far as possible in the same way for all the industries by the use of economic and financial criteria , and that this should be done by one minister and one department .
13 It argued that some extra form of local taxation was needed if local government was to preserve its separate identity .
14 It argued that outbreaks of fire in Underground stations were seen as inevitable by management , which monitored strictly financial matters , rather than safety .
15 It argued that these were not soft options but properly applied would be tough penalties which aided the battle to reduce crime .
16 When the Red Deer Commission ( RDC ) was set up in 1959 , it argued that there were too many red deer in Scotland .
17 It argued that the existing two tier local government in Lothian was the best for delivering local services but if changes had to be made , the only effective alternative would be an all-purpose local authority for Edinburgh and the Lothians .
18 It argued that education should be child-centred ; it could take the form of either ‘ multilateral ’ schools or a dual system of grammar/technical schools and modern/technical schools ( rather than a tripartite system ) , but must take into account variation in ability and aptitude between children .
19 It argued that English must be taught well in predominantly Welsh-speaking areas , and that Welsh should be available as an option for all children in predominantly English-speaking areas .
20 It argued that more teachers should be encouraged into primary schools ( especially men , graduates and those who had specialised in maths or science ) , and a new group of staff called ‘ teachers ’ aides ' should be recruited with a similar status to nursery assistants [ never widely implemented ] .
21 Instead it argued that " bilateral imbalances are rooted in such factors as industrial structure , [ and in ] fiscal and monetary policy " .
22 It argued that a number of communities in the north of the country depended on whaling for their livelihood .
23 Possibly it is not too much of an exaggeration to say that the more flexibility your employer retains in framing your job duties , the harder he may find it to argue that you are redundant .
24 Now if th this side , the list on this side erm represents the sort of essential characteristics of a Marxist political party , and if that 's a reasonable er summary , and people might want to take issue with it argue that these are n't the essential characteristics , that there are other essential characteristics or one other important er characteristic which I 've ignored , but if these are , down this side , the essential characteristics of a Marxist party then Mao 's Communist Party in the late nineteen thirties can not , it seems to me , by any stretch of the imagination qualify .
25 It argues that Britain has a moral responsibility to its citizens in Hong Kong ; that Hong Kong people ‘ do not want to leave … they seek an insurance policy ’ ; that Britain is ‘ markedly ungenerous to its colonies ’ compared with other European countries ; and that ‘ insofar as any Hong Kong people were to move to Britain , they would be a valuable asset to the British economy ’ .
26 It argues that the understanding reached at the United Nations-sponsored Geneva refugee conference in 1979 , for South-east Asian countries to offer ‘ first asylum ’ while Western countries provided permanent resettlement , has now collapsed .
27 It argues that Britain must move Hong Kong into alignment with the terms of the Basic Law before 1997 , to avoid instability during the transition itself .
28 It argues that the injunctions were necessary in the public interest to prevent the concept of the security service 's confidentiality being destroyed pending full argument at trial .
29 And it argues that , despite growing public concern following deals such as the sale of Columbia Pictures and New York 's Rockefeller Centre to the Japanese , there is no need for tough new legislative curbs .
30 However , it argues that VAT increases will be required whichever party is in power if public borrowing is to be reduced .
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