Example sentences of "argument [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general implications of Lienhardt 's argument are that all languages have the potential to make abstract , relatively neutral statements , if called upon to do so . |
| 2 | I think the argument is that if we call the nature of the experience ‘ R ’ , and if we concede the materialist claim that R is a brain state , then in knowing the brain state the blind scientist knows R , though not what R is like . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The crux of our argument is that we do n't need to have toxic wastes and the fact that plants like Rechem exist , providing easy options for companies , is acting as a disincentive for companies to clean up . ’ |
| 5 | The argument is that Senna 's crime as he rushed past the scene of an accident was infinitely more dangerous than Mansell 's failure to stop on the command of a black flag . |
| 6 | His argument is that newspapers may be inhibited about discussing the commercial interests of their proprietors but otherwise they exercise independent judgement . |
| 7 | The main point of Engels 's and Morgan 's argument is that , once again , the State has the same origin as the family , private property , and class division , or in other words the overthrow of the gens . |
| 8 | The counter argument is that investors ought to have known that there was a risk involved , particularly those who put their funds in the Gibraltar fund at suspiciously high rates of interest in order to avoid UK taxation . |
| 9 | The biggest flaw in Mr Chandler 's argument is that it applies more readily to industries where fast changes in technology do not seem likely . |
| 10 | Without this element , there would be no way of excluding planned revenge killings , and the argument is that they should be excluded from the defence because a person who plans a response to an affront or a wrong ought to ensure that the response conforms with the law . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A further paternalistic argument is that a law restricting consent helps to protect individual citizens from themselves by counteracting some of the social pressures and shame which might otherwise occur . |
| 13 | The argument is that serious sexual assaults , and the attitude of many men towards them , derive from a male-dominated approach to sexuality in which aggressive sexual behaviour by males is praised or condoned whilst women are associated with passivity . |
| 14 | One drawback of this style of argument is that not only is the harm serious for the victim , but conviction for such an offence is serious for the defendant : a single class of offenders ( rapists , serious wounders ) would contain not only those with subjective fault but also those who merely failed to take proper care , all of whom would be convict.ed of a grave offence carrying a maximum of life imprisonment . |
| 15 | Thus the argument is that the victim 's right to autonomy and freedom of sexual choice does not need to yield to the principle that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; it would be so simple ( because of the inevitable physical proximity of the man and woman ) for the man to ascertain the facts here . |
| 16 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 17 | The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville . |
| 18 | The essence of the argument is that linguistic expressions derive their meanings and legitimate usages from the range of activities and contexts in which they have evolved — meanings , therefore , derive from what Wittgenstein calls ‘ forms of life ’ . |
| 19 | The second argument is that the governments of the EC have committed themselves to the goal of Monetary Union in communiqués at the end of summits in the past . |
| 20 | The basic argument is that structures that are closely similar were probably adapted to a similar function . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The point of my argument is that sometimes authoritative intervention creates that prospect , and that it creates it because of its authoritativeness . |
| 24 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 25 | The logic of this argument is that our constitutional theory and machinery must be reformed . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The second argument is that many structures of appropriation of surpluses from peasantries and pastoralists which were established during the late colonial period still exist . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The chink in this otherwise disarming argument is that Nature exists only to the extent that we comprehend it . |
| 30 | Second , the basis of the moral argument is that there must be a very good reason not to intervene . |