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

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1 It was , however , argued that at common law and in equity rescission can only be granted if full restitution can be made by both parties .
2 He argued that at deeper levels of processing , more semantic encoding is performed .
3 Dr John Hapgood argued that despite the coma there was still hope Tony could recover .
4 Newman argued that as a commitment in the light of evidence that can not be treated as proof , religious belief is like rather than unlike other forms of belief .
5 The Government argued that as the Wages Act removes rights to paid holidays , additional rates for weekend and shift work , as well as 550,000 young people losing their rights to minimum wages , these cuts are justified .
6 Levy and Sarrat argued that as the US market index had a mean return of 12.1 per cent and a standard deviation of 12.1 per cent , international diversification improved portfolio characteristics by reducing risk .
7 He was supported by Alun Michael , MP for Cardiff South , who argued that for Labour to take the issue seriously would be a gift to the party 's opponents .
8 We argued that for such students practice in the craft of writing would not only be valuable for its own sake but would help them appreciate the achievements of writers of the past and take an informed interest in contemporary writing :
9 Cantril argued that on the whole , the less educated were the most gullible .
10 McFarlane argued that on balance England did not lose from the war , and if one thinks in strict cash terms , the evidence supports him .
11 I argued that on some occasions there might simply not be enough acoustic information to make a decision , and cited psycholinguistic experiments on the intelligibility of words in certain contexts .
12 As we have already seen , Bukharin argued that with the domination of state capitalist trusts in the period leading to the internally by the rational organisation of production .
13 Athletico argued that with so much spontaneous combustion in the air it was dangerous for the game to continue and the referee should abandon it there and then .
14 Laffer argued that with a high tax rate , say a move to a lower one , say , would raise actual income , recorded income and tax revenue .
15 In an article published in the early 1970s , Nicholas Tyacke argued that during the period from 1560 to 1625 there was a common predestinarian Calvinist heritage within the English church , shared by both prelates and Presbyterians alike , against which Laud and his supporters firmly set their faces in the 1630s .
16 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 .
17 Marxist theoreticians argued that without a confident class to support it liberalism failed to complete the bourgeois revolution against feudalism ; thus they sought tactical models in Tsarist Russia that represented a stage of development comparable to that of modern Spain .
18 These scares helped to strengthen the case of those who argued that without nuclear weapons Britain had no hope of exerting sufficient influence in Washington .
19 They argued that under imperialism there could be no separate ‘ national question ’ .
20 Indeed , Marx argued that in most cases , because the social system is based on exploitation , people have to be consciously unaware of the basis of society if they are to continue working it .
21 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 .
22 Abrams argued that in place of traditional informal networks , one can observe the growth of ‘ neighbourhoodism ’ , which is ‘ an attempt by newcomers to create a local social world through political or quasi political action ’ .
23 Olson argued that in fact collective action is remarkably difficult to secure for some groups .
24 As with Hitler 's nazis , Blackshirts argued that in using weapons they were merely copying the tactics of their opponents .
25 Philippe Aries 's famous work Centuries of Childhood argued that in medieval society ‘ the idea of childhood does not exist ’ .
26 Another American writer , Walter Lippmann , argued that in the liberal democracies " mass opinion " had come to dominate over governments , and that this represented " a functional derangement of the relationship between the mass of the people and the government " .
27 In the parliament of 1371 two Austin friars argued that in a national emergency the prince who has endowed the churches may resume their property for the good of the realm ; about this time Langland was enlarging in Piers Plowman upon Holy Poverty , as were so many friars in their sermons ; before the end of the reign Wyclif , spokesman for Gaunt , especially against his wealthy political enemy , Bishop Wykeham of Winchester , was denying the right of priests to hold any property .
28 Beyen argued that in the long term the ‘ sector ’ approach to co-operation would have to face up to the need for an all-embracing ‘ common market ’ reducing all trade barriers between the Six .
29 On the basis of his own findings Moscovitch argued that in the normal brain the right hemisphere has little or no language .
30 He argued that in some markets the lumpy nature of demand made it essential that contracts be shared out , to ensure that the competitors were not exposed to the risk of alternating ‘ feast and famine ’ in their order books .
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