Example sentences of "it is argued that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is argued that specific policies implemented at the outset of British rule led to the development of a judicial system which did not coincide with either British or indigenous notions of justice but which was none the less compatible with local culture . |
| 2 | First , it is argued that mental events are a fact of life and , therefore , a legitimate object of psychological enquiry . |
| 3 | However , it is argued that new inequalities would arise between patients with the resources and knowledge to seek care outside their district and patients without such resources and/or knowledge . |
| 4 | It is argued that political programmes have to be worked out by actors within the state , rather than emerging automatically from the ‘ needs ’ of the economic system . |
| 5 | It is argued that private sector firms are too risk-averse and too concerned with short-term profits . |
| 6 | Namely , it is argued that small enterprises tend to be less unionized and therefore characterised by competitively-set. flexible wages , while large enterprises are characterised by wage rigidity . |
| 7 | It is argued that disease-carrying insects and other small pests are reluctant to land on such a strange surface , with its intensely white and intensely black patches . |
| 8 | Following Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) suggestion that style arises out of the pursuit of optimal relevance , it is argued that deliberate reformulations are a stylistic device designed to achieve particular contextual effects . |
| 9 | assimilation : it is argued that initial information sets up expectancies about a person . |
| 10 | It denies the existence of a general obligation to obey the law even in a reasonably just society , though it is argued that just governments may exist , and that in certain circumstances their existence is preferable to any alternative method of social organization . |
| 11 | It is argued that lone parents have children taken away from them as a punishment for their failure to cope with society 's shortcomings and its failure to offer adequate support . |
| 12 | It is argued that pluralist accounts miss the fact that thought and action is structurally determined by the requirements of capitalism and that the scope for change through popular pressure in liberal democratic institutions is limited . |
| 13 | It is argued that cultural discontinuities between homes and schools do exist , are inevitable and are to be celebrated . |