Example sentences of "is [adv] argue " in BNC.

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1 For although it is constantly argued that the police represent and are drawn from the community they serve , the cultural style required in the body of the police officer inevitably sets him slightly apart from the ‘ civvies ’ outside the institution , especially where such symbolic use of clothing and beards or hair is the province of the youthful innovator .
2 Who is constantly arguing for proper scientific evaluation of all the interventions which have become a matter of habit with many midwives and obstetricians , like artificial membrane rupture ?
3 Therefore if you 've got a relationship with somebody and all you seem to constantly to be doing is constantly arguing and it 's either I win or you win you 're never gon na get out of that unless other time .
4 The French crown , it is rightly argued , had a definite policy with relation to the sea which it had followed since the early thirteenth century .
5 Their relatively humdrum job these days is merely to argue about the best mechanism for finding out what the people want , the best way of looking after the country 's interests abroad and , in economics , the rival merits of maximising productive efficiency and maximising compassion for the poor devils who get least out of the efficiency .
6 The subject of what is evidently the principal side of the vase ( fig. 108 ) is much argued over : the Argonauts , the Seven against Thebes , the Underworld ; the morning of Marathon ; but I believe it has now been made nearly sure .
7 The treatment of tendon injuries in competition horses is much argued about amongst horse owners and equine veterinary surgeons .
8 It is generally argued , however , that the meaning " world " of is a post-Biblical development , and a mere possibility in the relationship of parallelistic lines ( " greater precision " ) can not be set against a linguistic certainty .
9 In the short run it is generally argued that tax cuts will simply stimulate aggregate demand and , with aggregate supply largely unaffected , will be inflationary .
10 It is thus argued that any statistical model linking pixel counts of land cover to population should be simple , linear , additive and without any intercept constant .
11 The enterprise of attempting to specify exhaustively the range of possible surface variants of a variable is thus argued to be irrelevant to a satisfying and explanatory account of syntactic variation .
12 It is thus argued that relationships between parts of the state apparatus ( especially the bureaucracy and representative institutions ) become a matter of the particular form of the capitalist state — liberal , interventionist , Bonapartist , military dictatorship , fascist — each relating to different stages in the development of capitalism ( competitive , imperialist , state capitalism ) .
13 In both cases we seem to be dealing with a subordinated racism which becomes ‘ common sense ’ as a result of its articulation through a dominant but non-racist ideology of competitive individualism — a situation which is the exact opposite of what is normally argued !
14 Parliament is already arguing that the referendum was no more than a glorified opinion poll .
15 If , as is usually argued , the course of Anglo-French relations before the Hundred Years War was largely dictated by disputes over them , their nature is highly significant .
16 It is unlikely , though , that a bridge existed here in pre-Roman times , since it is usually argued that the first Roman crossing at the famous battle of the Medway took place further upstream towards Maidstone .
17 It is usually argued that fixed capital increasing projects , even if they cause local and short-term unemployment , actually increase total employment through permitting significant increases in output .
18 It is usually argued that the feature which distinguishes a Keynesian labour supply function from its classical counterpart is the replacement of the money wage rate , W , for the real wage rate , , in the former .
19 It is usually argued that the managers do not acquire their Newco shares pursuant to a right conferred on them or an opportunity offered to them by Newco by virtue of their employment ( see s77 Finance Act 1988 ) .
20 That character Carly is always arguing
21 Disney is still arguing with several contractors over the final bill for the theme park .
22 But the government is still arguing furiously about how to recoup the HK$1.3 billion ( $168m ) that the colony 's new chemical-waste treatment plant cost to build and the HK$100m-300m a year that the plant will cost to run .
23 It is further argued that , in the case of those who are mentally frail , they may no longer be capable of exercising informal consent or its converse — refusal ; and that resistance to leaving their own home may sometimes be as much about fear of the unknown as love of the familiar .
24 It is further argued that financial markets fail to reflect the collective rate at which society wants to save and invest .
25 It is further argued that child tutors are , by comparison with adult teachers , more sensitive to and aware of misunderstanding in other children .
26 It is , then , by learning to analyse the nature and the diversity of cultural formations-in close association , as is later argued , with the analysis of cultural forms — that we can move towards a more adequate understanding of the direct social processes of cultural production .
27 With troops deployed in Bosnia for a year already , and no one knows for how much longer , the defence secretary Malcolm Rifkind is openly arguing against more cuts unless commitments like this are cut as well .
28 The need for this distinction is traditionally argued , by philosophers , through examples such as " the morning star " and " the evening star " .
29 Her article is clearly argued and worth reading in full .
30 It is also argued that it is inconsistent with human dignity that a woman should use her uterus for financial profit and treat it as an incubator for someone else 's child . ’
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