Example sentences of "[adv] argued that " in BNC.

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1 We have merely argued that such an existent belongs to .
2 The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason .
3 The council apparently argued that as Gloucester had not been protector at the time , any attempt on his life could not be construed as treason .
4 Reformers had long argued that the credibility of the legislature in the eyes of the public and its ability to compete with the executive were both weakened by a chaotic Congressional budgetary process .
5 British Rail has long argued that most passengers travelling to and from King 's Cross will do so by public transport .
6 However , Airbus Industrie , the four-country European consortium which manufactured the A-320 , had long argued that " fly-by-wire " avionics , by which flying control systems were initially activated electronically rather than hydraulically , made the aircraft safer .
7 We have long argued that the Post Office scheme is detrimental to the survival of townland names .
8 But European Commissioner Bruce Millan has long argued that Britain is out of step because it includes European money in its allocations to local authorities .
9 Ramblers have long argued that the army 's needs should be subjected to independent scrutiny , adding the independent National Parks Review panel had agree with the group .
10 This column has long argued that Scottish football needs to reduce the quantity of matches played and increase the quality .
11 Stirling sensibly argued that it was illogical to form two new battalions when the few men he required were being denied him .
12 Granting evils in the slave trade and colonial slavery it was none the less argued that government could more easily influence planters and traders through better regulation than they could control the situation on the West African coast .
13 The shikar lobby was strong and well organized and naturally argued that the tiger population was holding its own .
14 For although it is constantly argued that the police represent and are drawn from the community they serve , the cultural style required in the body of the police officer inevitably sets him slightly apart from the ‘ civvies ’ outside the institution , especially where such symbolic use of clothing and beards or hair is the province of the youthful innovator .
15 The companies successfully argued that many elements of the Macintosh screen , which uses movable symbols rather than typed commands , were not original or that they had been invented by Xerox Corporation or International Business Machines .
16 In the first such case in the UK , Leeds-based John Richardson Computers Ltd has successfully argued that copyright should protect the look and feel of a program ; the court decided that a plaintiff does not need to show source code has been copied to prove infringement , and that copying non-literal aspects of a program , such as structure and organisation , could well constitute infringement ; the company 's dispute arose with a former employee over rival applications aimed at the pharmaceutical industry ; in the past , copyright cases have dealt exclusively with copying of actual program code .
17 He had brilliantly and successfully argued that the Toraja religion was one and the same with whatever " Hindu-Balinese animism " might be — and thus Toraja religion was permitted to survive .
18 [ In the Court of Appeal Pickin successfully argued that this case was authority for the House of Lords refusing to give effect to a private Act obtained by fraud . ]
19 The Government correctly understood and successfully argued that in most of the new areas of competence the approach should be largely intergovernmental — as was suggested by my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley ( Mr. Soames ) — thus introducing a greater element of flexibility into the future institutional arrangements of the Community .
20 On Oct. 15 , 1989 , a controversial retrial of 15 Islamic extremists ( who had been associates of Bouiali-see above ) was abandoned after the defence had successfully argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case following the Supreme Court 's refusal to do so .
21 Defence Minister Moshe Arens had successfully argued that defence spending could not be reduced in the light of the ongoing Gulf crisis .
22 Although Massachusetts , like many states , had a statute which absolved parents who treated their children by spiritual healing from charges of abuse or neglect , the prosecution successfully argued that the statute did not apply in cases where death or serious injury resulted from such action .
23 It was successfully argued that the phrase " is or " could only relate to a customer when the soliciting is taking place .
24 It has been effectively argued that live performance before an audience can be the most crucial part of a popular musician 's growth as an artist .
25 For example , Chomsky has elegantly argued that syntax is logically prior to phonology , in that phonological description requires reference to syntactic categories , but not vice versa ; syntax is thus autonomous with respect to phonology , and phonology ( non-autonomous with respect to syntax ) can be envisaged as taking a syntactic input , on the basis of which phonological representations can be built up .
26 It is thus argued that any statistical model linking pixel counts of land cover to population should be simple , linear , additive and without any intercept constant .
27 Adorno thus argued that Lukács 's aesthetics was an example of identity-thinking , because his realism privileged works of art which correspond with social reality .
28 It is thus argued that relationships between parts of the state apparatus ( especially the bureaucracy and representative institutions ) become a matter of the particular form of the capitalist state — liberal , interventionist , Bonapartist , military dictatorship , fascist — each relating to different stages in the development of capitalism ( competitive , imperialist , state capitalism ) .
29 We have just argued that an important feature of research is its concern with the nature of the event under scrutiny .
30 Thus , while Sharpe , White , and Bernard do not believe that the Arminians should be blamed for causing the civil war of the 1640s , Tyacke , John Morrill , and other historians have conversely argued that Laud and his fellow prelates should bear a major part of the responsibility for provoking what they regard as ‘ England 's wars of religion ’ .
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