Example sentences of "[pron] argument is 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 Her argument is that Irigaray , as a psychoanalyst , sees psychoanalysis as a process of change rather than as a scientific theory : Irigaray 's work suggests ways in which psychoanalysis could be seen as a model for feminists seeking fundamental social change , in particular by proposing an alternative model for the relation between the rational and the non-rational which would be more satisfactory than the dominant paradigm .
13 Her argument is that by learning to overlook those parts of the world which are easily nameable we can revert to a mode of perception more favourable to successful drawing .
14 The nub of its argument is that policing is a necessary function which ideally should control the criminal victimization disproportionately afflicting the most vulnerable members of our society .
15 Their argument is that it is good for the tournament , a s well as the players concerned , if as many as possible of the higher ranked competitors survive the early rounds .
16 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 .
17 On the continuity point their argument is that under the system of election by thirds , you do n't see a dramatic switch in the party control of the council .
18 They , they think now that they 've got a feeling that this might be taken out , all these testing schemes and stuff because I said to them , While their argument is that while she 's doing these SAT schemes , and she 's following this , she 's all worked up ,
19 The common sense of their argument is that higher public spending raises interest rates and attracts capital inflows , which in turn raise the demand for sterling and therefore the exchange rate .
20 Their argument is that the Zeneca shares have excellent underlying value at 600p .
21 His argument is that newspapers may be inhibited about discussing the commercial interests of their proprietors but otherwise they exercise independent judgement .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 ) .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 The basis of his argument is that emotional experience and emotional behaviour involve separate , although interlinked , parts of the brain .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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