Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] argue that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was successfully argued that the phrase " is or " could only relate to a customer when the soliciting is taking place . |
| 2 | It was even argued that a State could justifiably be compelled , by the other members of that system , to sacrifice for the common good territory to which it had every legal right , just as it in its turn could compel one of its subjects if necessary to sacrifice some of his wealth to its needs ; for ‘ the most legitimate rulers must sometimes renounce their rights in order to maintain the balance ’ . |
| 3 | In the 1960s it was also argued that government departments dealing with domestic questions should be decentralized so that civil servants who had a powerful voice in matters of economic planning could be kept in touch with regional and local interests . |
| 4 | It was also argued that the ban was premature and that developing nations would have their industrial development impaired as a result . |
| 5 | It was also argued that the ban was premature and that undeveloped nations would have their industrial development impaired as a result . |
| 6 | It was also argued that costs for small investors would rise . |
| 7 | During the 1980S it was increasingly argued that the world market could not support more than ten suppliers of major equipment items ( such as central office or exchange equipment ) and that Europe 's ten or more manufacturers would need to slim down to , at most four , perhaps three . |
| 8 | It was increasingly argued that the international capitalist order had-had its day and that post-war recovery would be achieved rather differently , through much greater State involvement . |
| 9 | It was increasingly argued that unnecessary State control of personal and community affairs was wrong in principle , serving merely to weaken the capacity of the individual to enhance life chances ; arguments not heard for perhaps half a century were rehearsed . |
| 10 | It was hotly argued that the cameras zoomed in more often on his Gucci loafers and Hermes ties than on the buildings . |
| 11 | For one thing , it would have seemed to count against the idea of immortality , for it was commonly argued that only something immaterial could be immortal . |
| 12 | Alternatively , in attempts to deprive antislavery of the dynamic of evangelism , it was sometimes argued that the task of evangelising and civilising Africans , whether in Africa or the Americas , necessitated the disciplines of slavery and the slave trade rather than being a reason for abolition or emancipation . |
| 13 | With regard to the first , it was often argued that Afro-Caribbean family and child-rearing patterns harmed the intellectual and educational development of black children , but the misleading assumptions about these patterns and consequences have now been effectively contested ( Cross , 1978 ; Reeves and Chevannes , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | In the 1960s , for example , it was often argued that the prospects of developing a car industry in Latin America were poor because the small size of the local market meant that small local plants could never compete on cost with imported cars . |
| 15 | It was then argued that this provides the basis for preventive or corrective intervention in the form of competition policy . |
| 16 | Indeed it was still argued that determined efforts should be made towards monetary union so that eventually a common currency could be issued by a European central bank . |
| 17 | It was further argued that Australian citizens , like British citizens , can not bring claims against their government for violation of Australia 's international obligations . |