Example sentences of "argument [be] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | No one pretends that ageing has no ill-effects : the argument is that birthdays do not signpost them . |
| 32 | However , while agreeing that crime must be controlled , this functionalist argument is that some criminal behaviour has positive and useful functions . |
| 33 | Very briefly , the basic Marxist argument is that the selective enforcement of the law , by largely ignoring white-collar/business crime , gives the impression that criminals are mainly from the working classes , which serves to direct attention away from ‘ ruling-class crime ’ . |
| 34 | The basic argument is that the more adolescents are supervised by their parents and , perhaps , their teachers , the less likely they are to become involved with or influenced by delinquent contemporaries and delinquent values . |
| 35 | The argument is that you only have one life , that you are the most important person in the world and that if you do n't take responsibility for your own development , who else will ? |
| 36 | This is closely related to the more general idea of a common association base ( CAB ) : the argument is that some sort of conceptual link has to be formed between individuals which have been introduced if they are to be referred to by a plural pronoun . |
| 37 | The argument is that proper name is an important signal to the processor to treat the referent as a main character , which tends to separate that character from others in terms of the roles they play in interpretative scenarios ( see also Garrod & Sanford 1988 for a fuller discussion of the concept of main character ) . |
| 38 | On its preferred scenario C , the board 's argument is that Sizewell will save it £47 million , £76M , or £102M a year ( NECs of — £43 , — £69 , or — £93/kilowatt/ year , depending on the extent of nuclear capacity assumed in the plant background mix ) . |
| 39 | The CEGB 's argument is that , far from incurring a short-term cost in achieving diversity , the board will enjoy a short-term benefit in the form of a negative NEC . |
| 40 | 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 ) . |
| 41 | The weakness in the argument is that a herd of wild horses , totally lacking in the striped pattern , also has accurate individual identification and every member of every equine herd , including all domestic horses , is known individually to every other member . |
| 42 | In its purest form their argument is that Orkney is an area where agricultural owner-occupancy , depopulation , and the conservatism of successive local authority administrations have encouraged a tradition of private housing . |
| 43 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 44 | Beware the patrician whose natural argument is that ‘ we are educated and able to make an informed decision , but not so most people , hence we had better protect the masses from their own folly ’ . |
| 45 | But Winch 's argument is that the elder knows he has done wrong in killing the gangster . |
| 46 | Haksar 's argument is that a coercive threat implies either a violation of , or a readiness to violate , moral duty on the part of the proposer of the threat . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | The simple form of this argument is that new technology is so enormously labour-saving that we will never again need full employment to provide for all our needs . |
| 49 | A weak version of the first argument is that put forward by opponents of the trade union movement claiming that , if wage rates had not been maintained at what they call an artificially high level , the introduction of labour-saving equipment would have been retarded and the number of available jobs increased . |
| 50 | The full-strength argument is that there are often substantial costs to employing someone which mean that a company might choose to employ a machine rather than a person even if that person 's wages cost them nothing . |
| 51 | The implication of this strong argument is that it may become cheaper in straightforward labour cost terms at the level of the economy to pay some people to stay at home while automated machinery produces the goods and services . |
| 52 | The other weakness in Handy 's argument is that there is every possibility that demand for more education and health care will be expressed in the market place as consumers choose to buy these commodities . |
| 53 | The argument is that it therefore provides a good basis for a fair and orderly grading structure . |
| 54 | The opposite side of the argument is that in task allocation people may not receive appropriate care at appropriate times and that the day is succession of minor interruptions , made for the convenience of the organisation and not for the benefit of individuals . |
| 55 | Their main argument is that the World Cup should move around on a rotational basis , but having staged the first three tournaments , other countries have some catching up to do before it returns to these shores . |
| 56 | Another argument is that the planned £250,000 prize fund guarantees the players , as well as administrators , a bumper tournament . |
| 57 | An objection to this argument is that a legal obligation is not a necessary condition for a liability . |
| 58 | The rationale behind this argument is that the criteria are consistent with the criteria for recognising an asset in the IASC 's Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements . |
| 59 | A second argument is that the system of property rights in which ownership and control are in the hands of shareholders violates the Christian concept of trusteeship and is contrary to the Biblical ideal of community . |
| 60 | One argument is that if building the CIT involves cutting into present research programmes then it may be preferable to run the present experiments for longer . |