Example sentences of "my argument [be] [that] " in BNC.

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1 One of my arguments is that the mechanical relations of work can bring about this withdrawal .
2 The point of my argument is that sometimes authoritative intervention creates that prospect , and that it creates it because of its authoritativeness .
3 My argument is that a place may be a paradise only if humans can live there — the picture must sell not merely paradise , but the idea of the ‘ enjoyment ’ of paradise .
4 My argument is that ideology is also a moral system , and that moral values must be directly related to ideas of human nature : what it is to be a person .
5 My argument is that this harmonious interpretation can be fully understood only by interpreting Dicey 's entire theory in the light of the ancient conception of the rule of law .
6 My argument is that state capitalism of the kind outlined above would be a highly progressive development .
7 But my argument is that that culture should not be accepted uncritically .
8 Secondly , although it is true that all the institutions that are discussed have been described as " marriage " in the relevant literature , the whole point of my argument is that this very fact tends to mislead .
9 But the gist of my argument is that there is no single cross-cultural matrix into which these several " marriage " institutions can all be fitted .
10 My argument is that statecentrism , whether in its directly state-centrist form or in indirect forms , takes us quite far but not far enough .
11 The gist of my argument is that the global capitalist system leaves less and less space for exclusively national capitalist projects .
12 My argument was that , as Michael Heseltine had so boldly listed Battersea Power Station in 1980 , it was illogical not to protect a much finer and more complete industrial work by the same architect .
13 My argument was that he might as well use pit-props for his fishing , for he could n't possibly gain any enjoyment from playing fish , or handling such a rod with no more than a 4lb line .
14 And this was , this , that , that would n't have entered into that brief but my argument was that , you know everybody would be much happier if there was less rubbish to put in the landfill sites in the first place .
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