Example sentences of "argued [adv] that " in BNC.

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1 SAVE argued successfully that listed building consent was required for partial demolition
2 Nevertheless , it will be argued below that the nature and form of economic reconstruction had a powerful , long-term influence on British economic performance .
3 It will be argued below that there are strong reasons why this should not be so .
4 In fact , it will be argued below that the rational expectations hypothesis , the target of so many misdirected Keynesian barbs , may be combined with a model which does not assume market clearing in such a way as to allow considerable scope for discretionary demand management policies .
5 However , the inequalities in higher education have rarely been the subject of close and critical attention ; far from arguing that higher education serves to reproduce inequalities , commentators ( e.g. Wolpe 1977 ) have argued merely that higher education functions to train middle-class students to take up positions of status and responsibility in society , such as civil servants , managers , teachers and doctors .
6 For instance we have argued elsewhere that if accountability is interpreted in a professional sense then the question of intelligibility to lay audiences is rarely an issue because the primary audience is teachers ' professional colleagues .
7 I have argued elsewhere that there are three components to the definition of a place-the physical environment , the built environment , and the people ( Johnston , 1989a ) .
8 I have argued elsewhere that these ideological failures have been compounded firstly by a reductive conception of culture and secondly by a culturalist conception of race and ethnic identity ( Gilroy , 1987 ) .
9 It was argued above that it is unacceptable to claim that the mandatory penalty for murder supplies the raison d'être for the qualified defence of provocation : the label ‘ murder ’ should be reserved for the most heinous of killings , and there is a widely held belief that provoked killings are not in this group .
10 I have argued above that the absence of an international standard such as is provided for cinema by Hollywood makes it difficult to think of a classical system for television .
11 Bill Jordan , right-wing leader of the Amalgamated Engineering Union , however argued yesterday that secondary action should be limited to direct suppliers and direct customers .
12 But it could surely be argued further that a provision which mentions implied threats and does not refer to fear unaccompanied by threat must be interpreted to exclude such fear from rape .
13 It could be argued also that the nuclear family has facilitated the improvement of women 's status within the home .
14 It has been argued also that if the president and the Congress are to work well together , each branch must respect the other 's legitimacy and competence ; however , Nixon and his aides made no pretence of granting that much to the legislature .
15 The full extent of marital breakdown is of course very hard to assess , and Roderick Phillips has argued convincingly that while divorce might breed divorce , it does not necessarily breed marital breakdown . ’
16 The position of Gaelic has deteriorated dramatically in the intervening forty years and it is now argued convincingly that a local language is itself a development tool .
17 Macpherson has argued convincingly that it was in the context of just such a society that the case For a representative democracy was initially accepted , first as a logical requirement to protect acquisitive , self-interested and conflicting individuals ( from rapacious governments and from one another ) and second to establish and nurture a free market economy ( MacPherson , 1977 ) .
18 While some historians have dismissed such jurisdictional conflicts as routine and insignificant , others have argued convincingly that they were signs of a well-established corporate anti-clericalism .
19 Humphrey ( 1976 ) has argued convincingly that animals are in many ways over-equipped for the inanimate environment , but the environment provided by other animals ( particularly clever ones ) is especially complex , difficult to predict and difficult to control .
20 More recently Curtis Price has argued convincingly that ‘ the 1693 production was almost certainly acted without [ Q1692 's ] first scene ’ .
21 Nevertheless , quite apart from their value as a temporary measure to kick-start a move to overcome corporate cultural stereotypes , it was argued convincingly that at an operational level they worked as a performance standard on managers , making them work harder to find , encourage and develop female high-fliers .
22 In January 1937 , Nizan asked rhetorically : " Is it going to be argued now that it is preferable for Spain to be sacrificed ? "
23 The US government has long argued forcefully that GATT free trade rules should apply to all services ; and in 1985 , after three years of negotiation , the US position was incorporated nearly intact into OECD 's Declaration on Transborder Data Flows .
24 ( 1978 , Chapters 10 and 11 ) have argued forcefully that the calculation of profitability is by no means a transparent and unambiguous exercise , and that the method and effects of such calculation can vary between enterprises .
25 Of course , some may in the early years have argued plausibly that the payments would rid England of the raiders for good , for it need not have been evident in the 990s that the problem would intensify as it did .
26 It was always argued here that , if Mr Major cut direct taxation , then made direct taxation ‘ an issue ’ , and generally endeared himself to Essex Man and Woman , he would be still more likely to win than he otherwise would .
27 It will be argued here that their aims can and should converge .
28 But it has been argued here that we should go further than that , and recognize that political democracy itself has not been realized simply by giving every adult person a vote in general and local elections .
29 It is argued here that the public sector has a crucial part to play in initiating the first moves back to full employment .
30 It is argued here that economic autonomy is still a long way off for most British women .
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