Example sentences of "his argument [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His argument is that newspapers may be inhibited about discussing the commercial interests of their proprietors but otherwise they exercise independent judgement . |
| 2 | Now according to Hahnemann being better is n't a sign to stop the medicine , his argument is that the symptoms may be gone but the patient has not yet demonstrated that the predisposition has been removed . |
| 3 | His argument is that the penetration of capitalism into the countryside leads to the articulation of the capitalist mode with the subsistence economy , which in turn leads to the diversification of the village economy , with wage migration becoming an increasing part of rural life . |
| 4 | His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) . |
| 5 | The heart of his argument is that Lab-our activists , at least since Ramsay MacDonald 's betrayal in 1931 , have distrusted their leaders , and he quotes Sidney Webb 's analysis of the problem this causes : ‘ The constituency parties are frequently unrepresentative groups of nonentities dominated by fanatics , cranks and extremists . |
| 6 | Rather , his argument is that our consciousness of ourselves conveys to us that we are not self-enclosed or self-sufficient , not our own cause or our own explanation . |
| 7 | His argument is that the motivation to form strong craft organisations to control entry to the trades will be greater in conditions of labour surplus which endanger the market position of skilled workers . |
| 8 | The basis of his argument is that emotional experience and emotional behaviour involve separate , although interlinked , parts of the brain . |
| 9 | His argument is that medicine rests on the discovery of natural laws while legal norms derive from decisions , influenced by the actions of lawyers themselves . |
| 10 | The essence of his argument is that , during the course of the twentieth century , British society has been characterised by increasing economic regulation and increasing moral licence . |
| 11 | The essence of his argument is that changes in behavioural codes reflect changes in the power and dependency relations they are rooted in . |
| 12 | In short , his argument is that it is the very abstraction which confers the material advantages of modern science , and the social advantages of both modern freedom and equality , which is also responsible for the dilemmas of exploitation and alienation. the central conflict is not , therefore , one between liberalism and equality , which come from the same root , but one emerging from a recognition that both of these entail consequences which may turn against the interests of the subject . |
| 13 | Basically his argument is that all aspects of musical form — Adorno instances overall structure ( the thirty-two-bar chorus ) , melodic range , song-types and harmonic progressions — depend on pre-existing formulae and norms , which have the status virtually of rules , are familiar to listeners and hence are entirely predictable . |
| 14 | His argument is that Magna Carta , both in its original form and as confirmed by Henry III in 1225 ( 9 Hen . |
| 15 | Will the Minister accept that the flaw in his argument is that no figure is projected for the next financial year which will take the amount needed over the present limits agreed under the 1987 legislation ? |
| 16 | His argument is that the department can not do this because of the numbers now being taught in Art ( group sizes of up to 32 ) , which the Head of Department stands by . |
| 17 | Thus his argument is that although both effects exist , the important effect as far as eyewitness testimony is concerned is that high levels of arousal in actual crimes are likely to lead to impaired memory performance . |
| 18 | His argument is that once we have cleared the debt we could buy a car with another loan . |
| 19 | His argument was that the Church of Ireland was ‘ poisoned by ecumenism ’ and as such he , as a Free Presbyterian , could not take part in fund-raising on its behalf . |
| 20 | His argument was that they expect to be certain , and therefore interpret any doubt as evidence of unbelief : |
| 21 | The essence of his argument was that life in general , and development in particular , could not be encompassed or explained in terms of physics and chemistry . |
| 22 | His argument was that aggregate demand could best be stimulated through fiscal expansion , and that in the prevailing conditions most of the increase in national income would feed through into output and therefore employment rather than inflation . |
| 23 | The tenor of his argument was that the Parliament due to meet in February 1545 could not provide enough money in time . |
| 24 | It was to this latter end that Wilson 's journeyings were largely devoted , while the emphasis of his argument was that acceptance of the union 's position , far from creating a tyranny of trade unionism , would lead to greater discrimination in recruitment and to higher standards of seamanship and greater efficiency which would be greatly to the advantage of the shipowners themselves . |
| 25 | As far as I can remember Professor Ricks 's lecture , his argument was that if the factual side of literature becomes unreliable , then ploys such as irony and fantasy become much harder to use . |
| 26 | His argument was that it would free my father to return to the States , but Ron is never so simple . ’ |
| 27 | His argument was that Tacitus had chosen the wrong period and provided bad examples for princes , whereas Polybius introduced the modern politicians to a noble period of ancient history . |
| 28 | But the horrifying gist of his argument was that Homo sapiens might be extinguished by pantun . |
| 29 | His argument was that miners were abusing their personal fuel allowance by removing large amounts to sell . |