Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] argue that " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first became involved in what I suppose can be called the politics of conservation , I was swift to argue that farmers are the essential inhabitants of the countryside , and not least of the most beautiful parts of the countryside . |
| 2 | And I think it was right to argue that the book has its ‘ strict disclaimers ’ and that goodness of heart , chiefly Jenny 's , is defensively displayed amid a welter of misconduct . |
| 3 | Barth therefore concluded that it was correct to argue that if we could define God then God must exist . |
| 4 | It was possible to argue that , because the Polaris missile was supplied by the United States , the British Nuclear Deterrent was no longer independent . |
| 5 | It was possible to argue that Ostpolitik had , in the end , served to undermine the East German regime by reinforcing the liberal-democratic alternative to Communism in the minds of the East German people . |
| 6 | As this inhibition was less than the accompanying inhibition of PGE 2 it was possible to argue that some substrate diversion might have occurred , although weak inhibition of the 5-lipoxygenase enzyme by indomethacin seems a simpler and more plausible explanation . |
| 7 | Furthermore , some liberals had pushed their rationalizing of the Christian faith to the extreme point where it was fashionable to argue that ‘ God is dead ’ and that the only truly Christian thing to do was to abandon the churches altogether . |
| 8 | At one time it was fashionable to argue that Darwinism destroyed the traditional belief that Nature had been created by a wise and benevolent God , thereby ushering in an age of rampant materialism . |
| 9 | Conceptually it was tempting to argue that greater flexibility would allow the sentencing court more discretion if it concluded that full suspension could not be justified , but that a brief experience of imprisonment might have some deterrent effect without first offenders remaining long enough in prison to become acclimatized . |