Example sentences of "[noun sg] argue that it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 2 | Betty began to open her mouth to argue that it was n't well-trained at all until she remembered that it did n't exist , and she had vowed not to get drawn into Lydia 's idiotic fantasies . |
| 3 | Drawing on an analysis of American inter-organizational relations Lindblom argues that it is simply not possible for the central state to impose its wishes on the local state . |
| 4 | For years the Department of Transport argued that it was not its role to promote cycling , but recently the men from the ministry seem to have had a change of heart . |
| 5 | The plaintiff argued that it was not therefore open to the Revenue to seek an alteration of the existing assessments , because any information supplied in compliance with a s 17 , FA 1975 notice had to be made the subject of a new or further assessment . |
| 6 | Proponents of left-to-right strategy argue that it is much simpler , requiring far less bookkeeping , and thus leads to greater efficiency . |
| 7 | The Church argued that it was not worth spending such high sums on the building 's repair . |
| 8 | I have spent many hours of my life arguing that it is not necessary to have been in prison to write convincingly about prison conditions , not to be poor to declaim on the evils of poverty , nor black to describe racial discrimination . |
| 9 | Indeed , in proclaiming its independence , the Responsible Society argues that it is not affiliated to any political party , pressure group or religious body . |
| 10 | Therefore , even if complex real-world situations can only be represented by complex models , the proponents of the object-oriented model argue that it is only as it need be to represent these situations on computers and to manipulate those representations for the purpose of processing queries . |
| 11 | Winkler argues that it is not , meaning that the state must be concerned with flexibility , bargaining , negotiation and even the orchestration of private power . |