Example sentences of "argue [that] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wittgenstein argued that it is not possible to spell out necessary and sufficient conditions for an activity to be a game . |
| 2 | Although this fifth category is as yet insufficiently developed Terjung ( 1976 ) argued that it is increasingly appropriate as a research level for geographer climatologists . |
| 3 | He argued that it is too simplistic , and indeed ethnocentric , to dismiss such peoples as irrational and unscientific . |
| 4 | First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained . |
| 5 | In Chapter 2 , I argued that it is very important to test the system as a whole as early as possible rather than to develop components in isolation . |
| 6 | Cynics argued that it was not in the interests of the nuclear industry to create even more public concern . |
| 7 | The Church argued that it was not worth spending such high sums on the building 's repair . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In this case , BCCI argued that it was not open to Fashions and Wholesale to take advantage of the set-off effect as between BCCI and Mr Sawar . |
| 10 | Other members argued that it was not the EC 's fault if Britain paid more money than others under the terms of membership , and there were bitter arguments before a temporary ( three year ) settlement of the issue was reached , at the Luxembourg summit of April 1980 , when Britain got some repayments . |
| 11 | The ‘ restructuring school ’ argued that it was not possible to provide an explanation in terms of location factors alone ; what was needed was to set these factors within the wider context of the restructuring of industry ( Massey , 1979 ; Sayer , 1982 ) . |
| 12 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 13 | She maintained that the reproductive organs were formed in girls at birth and not newly created in adolescence as Maudsley claimed , and while agreeing that women stored nutrient in reserve for childbearing , argued that it was not in finite supply and could safely be drawn upon in adolescence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When Secretary of State Marshall was cabling the Embassy in Paris that Ho Chi Minh had direct Communist connections — whether or not this was a fact depends upon what one means by ‘ connection ’ — he argued that it was also a fact that colonial empires , in the l9th-century sense , were rapidly becoming a thing of the past . |
| 16 | The Scottish National Party leader , Alex Salmond , argued that it was under Tory rule that takeovers and closures had caused the loss of most companies , leaving Scotland with only 4 per cent of company headquarters in the UK . |
| 17 | Indeed as early as April 1944 the US secretary of war , Henry Stimson , argued that it was now up to the " virile " Americans to defeat the Axis . |
| 18 | Victorian editors , embarrassed by the imputation of homosexuality , argued that it was quite customary in the Renaissance for men to write sonnets to men . |
| 19 | They argued that it was often non-culpable since even the most respectable workers could not always save sufficient to provide for old age — a hazard which not all could expect to live to experience and whose length was uncertain . |
| 20 | William James ( 1950 ) argued that it was there to elaborate on reflexes , a position largely adopted by the behaviourist school of the early to middle twentieth century . |
| 21 | Far from arguing that the Bill did nothing , he argued that it was too draconian . |
| 22 | Critics argued that it was merely an attempt by Ford to purchase market share in the UK and that rationalisation would inevitably cause massive job losses . |
| 23 | It seems unlikely that a Tibetan would have got up there to take them , but then it could be argued that it 's equally unlikely that a yeti was the culprit . |
| 24 | But there will be no increase for spirits , a move welcomed by the Scottish whisky industry which has always argued that it is unfairly dealt with . |
| 25 | It still represents a cost to the Exchequer and a loss of potential output , but it can be argued that it is not particularly distressing to the people concerned and , for the economy as a whole , it may actually result in a more efficient use of labour : this is because high short-run unemployment may be a reflection of greater mobility of labour between jobs and areas and consequently may result in the labour force being more suitably and productively employed . |
| 26 | Whether any alternative leadership could have gone further in this direction in the 1960s and 1970s is an open question , but I have argued that it is not useful to conceive of the record so far as merely one of ‘ betrayal ’ . |
| 27 | This chapter has argued that it is not only national population size , composition and behaviour that matter but also their changing patterns across regional and urban systems . |
| 28 | However , there are good reasons for not limiting a discussion of language processing to sentences , since in many ways the sentence is not the most appropriate psychological unit — and , indeed , some authors have argued that it is not the most appropriate unit for linguistic analysis . |
| 29 | Although it could be argued that it is not really chronology continuing ( as suggested by the chapter title ) because there had been insufficient time specification before 1950 , the sequence of this chapter proceeds from the basic foundations , to the alternative models , to sea level changes , Quaternary geography and hence to the prospect of environmental change . |
| 30 | Because the choice of opting out is largely represented to parents , former pupils and the local community as a means of securing a better financial arrangement from the DES than has been possible with the local authority , it is sometimes argued that it is not ethos or education but funding which alone lies at the heart of the decision . |