Example sentences of "[adj] argument be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another old argument is that ‘ manly sports ’ help to keep people fit to fight for the Crown if necessary , whereas fights which involve maiming rob the Crown of able-bodied men for the armed forces . |
| 2 | Their old argument was that , by unilaterally renouncing nuclear weapons , the West could somehow avoid the dangers of the nuclear age . |
| 3 | The fiscal argument is that welfare state benefits for the poor cost relatively less in the more affluent States , because they are drawing on a larger tax base ; the higher the average income in a State , the smaller the effort required to finance a programme at a given level of payments ( because presumably there will be both fewer recipients plus more rich people to tax than in States with low average incomes ) . |
| 4 | The official argument was that this ceremony reflected Jesus ' washing of his disciples ' feet , all of them males . |
| 5 | The author 's central argument is that ‘ Science is not a neutral or innocent commodity … a convenience . |
| 6 | His central argument is that the root cause of our modern ills is the frustration of the human creative instinct . |
| 7 | Second , the basis of the moral argument is that there must be a very good reason not to intervene . |
| 8 | The basic argument is that structures that are closely similar were probably adapted to a similar function . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Their basic argument is that gender is all important when trying to understand the experience of women who become mentally distressed and go on to develop a more progressive and long-lasting mental disorder . |
| 11 | The basic argument was that traditional conservatism should re-establish itself by an uncompromising opposition to liberalism and socialism and by combating the supposed international Jewish conspiracy whose sole purpose was the undermining of the British Empire . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Although it may be beneficial to address this point at this stage rather than leave it to the flotation , the alternative argument is that such matters can only be decided at the time of flotation when the parties are better able to assess what is commercially necessary to achieve an optimum result . |
| 14 | A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The second strand of the radical feminist argument is that schooling is part of a process by which the ideas and experiences of girls and women are trivialized by male pupils and members of staff . |
| 17 | The general argument is that the existence of crime ensures sufficient diversity of behaviour and belief to allow society to adapt to new conditions . |
| 18 | The Crown 's practical arguments were that the case was so rare that it could not call for a fundamental reformulation of the law and that it was impossible for their lordships to set limits on the application of the principle which , being a matter of policy , was a question for the legislature . |
| 19 | Given these premises , then , anything which allowed native populations to challenge the principle let alone the practice of assimilation was to be avoided ; and the ultimate argument was that French culture would simply make the native ‘ an enemy better armed against us ’ . |
| 20 | Simmel 's essential argument is that money is the prerequisite for , and major instrument in , the accomplishment of freedom and potential equality . |
| 21 | The point about the above argument is that alienistic attitudes can become the prevalent force at every stage of a deaf person 's education . |
| 22 | The contrary argument is that Hambros Jersey is outside the ambit of the section , because the apparent width of the phrase is subject to an implied limitation that the expression applies only to ( 1 ) British subjects and ( 2 ) all persons present in England and Wales at the time of the impugned transaction . |
| 23 | The contrary argument is that because the full amount remains due , remission of liability has not been secured , and the charge should be one under s.2(1) ( b ) . |
| 24 | The explicit or implicit argument is that elderly people have experienced a constriction of economic liberty in modern Britain because of the sometimes deliberate and sometimes unconscious course of development of social welfare and employment policies . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | A related argument is that public expenditure must be restricted , not only to limit the supply of money , but also its ‘ price ’ — the rate of interest . |
| 27 | A less strongly related argument is that contained in a version of the ‘ insider-outsider ’ accounts of unemployment ( see Linbeck and Snower 1986 ) . |
| 28 | An example of the macro-to-micro arguments is that politically inspired monetary relaxations and contractions serve to alter the nominal rate of interest , giving the wrong investment signals . |
| 29 | The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . |
| 30 | One of the most important things about constructive arguments is that they almost have to be step by step . |