Example sentences of "to argue [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 2 | He looked at Killion as if urging him to argue so that Woolley could knock him down . |
| 3 | It is hard to argue conclusively that the category of murder should be smaller or larger ( unless the death penalty or a mandatory life sentence follows ) ; it is a question of social judgment . |
| 4 | It is all very well for modern econometric historians to argue retrospectively that slave or serf agriculture was actually more profitable or even more efficient than agriculture manned by free labour . |
| 5 | Even prominent members of the Labour Party — traditionally timid on this front — have started to argue openly that the Royal Family 's role must be streamlined and modernised if it is to survive for very much longer . |
| 6 | While courts and tribunals will again be reluctant to conclude that you have forfeited your entitlements , it makes sense to ensure that there is no question of your employer being able to argue later that there was no dismissal , if that does not suit you . |
| 7 | It 's too late to argue now that the forms should have been available earlier . |
| 8 | While it is difficult to argue convincingly that one system of taxation is superior to another , strong positions are still taken according to ideological commitment . |
| 9 | The petrological analysis has not been compared with the distribution of die-sets , yet the sheer volume of material , about 200 vessels from about twelve sites , one being the settlement of West Stow in Suffolk , might seem to argue strongly that the products are from a single workshop . |
| 10 | Risky , certainly ; but it has n't yet failed to get the class — and the child concerned — to argue strongly that while there 's life there 's hope ! |
| 11 | To get round this uncomfortable fact Fforde would have to argue either that all collectivist legislation emanated from governments of the left , or that all Conservative governments before 1979 were in some way not truly Conservative . |
| 12 | It is possible to argue either that the community charge has failed its first test as a device to improve the accountability of local government or that it has not really been tested at all . |