Example sentences of "of [pron] argument is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point of my argument is that sometimes authoritative intervention creates that prospect , and that it creates it because of its authoritativeness . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The gist of my argument is that the global capitalist system leaves less and less space for exclusively national capitalist projects . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The basis of his argument is that emotional experience and emotional behaviour involve separate , although interlinked , parts of the brain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The essence of his argument is that changes in behavioural codes reflect changes in the power and dependency relations they are rooted in . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | One half of our argument is that states ( and national states in particular ) are indeed conducting the functions outlined by Marxist and Weberian commentators : those of managing the social relations of capitalism and regulating and classifying individual citizens and their activities or moral careers . |