Example sentences of "argued [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though it might be argued that a regular life-style implies a regular degree of fatigue and so will require a regular amount of sleep , in practice , such a degree of regularity is not achieved . |
| 2 | It has argued that a total ban on sex may be unnecessary ; it would prefer to have rules that prevent a lawyer from bullying a client to have sex . |
| 3 | Indeed , it might be argued that a fourth Conservative victory , unprecedented in this century , would throw the Labour Party into self-destruction and our democracy into imbalance . |
| 4 | It may , with justice , be argued that a community-based approach already exists . |
| 5 | It is frequently argued that a locally based education , preferably with a rural bias , will somehow encourage young people to stay in agriculture . |
| 6 | Here the LEA had argued that a child ( J ) with dyslexia did not have special educational needs requiring special educational provision for the purposes of the 1981 Act , because he was an intelligent child whose needs could be provided for in an ordinary school . |
| 7 | If , however , one shifts the perspective , it can be convincingly argued that a ‘ democratic monarchy ’ with , at its head , an Emperor directly responsible to the people had need of a different set of values from those prevailing at St Petersburg or Vienna . |
| 8 | Indeed it could be argued that a dynastic conflict involving the interests of the Houses of Orléans , Bourbon , Bonaparte and Hohenzollern was the means chosen to bring down the Empire , even if it was not really the cause . |
| 9 | Lenin once argued that a political leader is responsible not only for policy but for the action of those who execute it . |
| 10 | It has also been argued that a reliance on external inspection alone removes from teachers the responsibility to evaluate their own work . |
| 11 | It can be argued that a fairly radical Type II ‘ internal market ’ has already developed in the care of the elderly , where much provision is private but much of the funding is public . |
| 12 | It is argued that a flexible control structure based on numerical scoring allows the required co-operation to take place , whereas a more limited depth-first architecture seems not to allow this . |
| 13 | Some astronomers have convincingly argued that a BL Lac object ( a clumsy terminology referring to the first of this class to be discovered ) is simply a quasar with one of its beams pointing straight at us . |
| 14 | It has been argued that a de-clawed cat can learn to use its teeth more when grooming . |
| 15 | If it is argued that a man has a moral duty to obey the law and that to break the law of the land is a violation of one 's duty to one 's country , then one has only to point to instances of government policy where it would clearly be immoral to obey the law of the land . |
| 16 | Although it may be argued that a meaningful measure of comprehensive income can not be provided unless a full system of current value accounting is employed , the introduction of the SCFW is likely to encourage the preparers of financial statements to move away from the historical cost system and to value relevant assets at current values . |
| 17 | It can be argued that a management charge made by the holding company is a business activity , and input VAT incurred is fully recoverable . |
| 18 | Indeed it could be argued that a family crisis ( for example the suicide of a father ) is bound to have a long term effect upon the child . |
| 19 | Lenneberg ( 1966 ) has argued that a great deal of evidence about deafness in children , aphasia , environmental deprivation of various kinds , muscular debilities and so on supports the hypothesis that language acquisition by children follows a definite maturational path , passing certain milestones of achievement in a certain order . |
| 20 | It is sometimes argued that a science of religion is a contradiction in terms . |
| 21 | The Newsom Report in 1963 , for example , had argued that a better ( male ) workforce would serve to create jobs , and that Britain 's economic fortunes were impeded by undertrained workers . |
| 22 | This paper has argued that a sociological definition of an occupation should be in terms of the specific practices of that occupation . |
| 23 | Even in America Ukraine has found friends : Zbigniew Brzezinski , once President Carter 's national security adviser , has argued that a strong and independent Ukraine would be a powerful bulwark for the West against the re-emergence of an expansionist Russia . |
| 24 | Some democratic elite theorists have argued that a much wider group of elected political leaders play political or policy direction roles than the power elite conception implies . |
| 25 | Second , it was argued that a range of local services in the catchment areas of the two chosen hospitals would have to be created before any rundown programme was agreed . |
| 26 | To sum up this section , it is argued that a purely economic approach can not provide a comprehensive treatment of financial market regulation , or any part thereof . |
| 27 | a duty of undivided loyalty — although the exact extent of this duty is uncertain , it may be argued that a conglomerate , when acting as a fiduciary , must not place itself in a position where its duty to one client conflicts with that of another client . |
| 28 | Applying this principle to insider dealing , it could be argued that a company has the right to bring an action against an insider for any profit made by reason of the fact that he has ( i ) abused his fiduciary position by using unpublished price sensitive information which he acquired by virtue of his position as an insider ; or ( ii ) misappropriated corporate property ( it is essential under this head that unpublished price sensitive information be seen as property ; whether it is , is not entirely clear ) . |
| 29 | It has been argued that a new spatial division of labour has been created which has changed the relative attractiveness of locations ( Massey and Meegan 1982 , Massey 1984 ) . |
| 30 | Similarly , it could be argued that a non-party to the Vienna Convention could not rely upon that Convention 's procedural requirements for the manifestation of consent . |