Example sentences of "[noun prp] argue that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 2 | While accepting wholeheartedly the value of this sort of study — the discipline that goes by the name of philology in English-speaking countries — Saussure argued that it gave only a partial account of linguistic phenomena . |
| 3 | A number of writers have sought to distinguish such a procedural challenge from the substantive challenge in cases such as Jordan arguing that it does not seek to limit Parliament 's area of power . |
| 4 | Apologists for the House of Lords argue that it ceased to be the exclusive preserve of the upper classes with the creation of Life Peerages in 1958 . |
| 5 | BA argued that it needed to acquire its smaller rival in order to be able to compete more effectively with the mega-airlines that had emerged , particularly in the US , during the previous two years . |