Example sentences of "argument is that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The basis of his argument is that emotional experience and emotional behaviour involve separate , although interlinked , parts of the brain . |
| 3 | But my argument is that that culture should not be accepted uncritically . |
| 4 | Well the argument is that if you receive say a mobility allowance , and if we are laying on transport to get you to a Day Centre and back , maybe five days a week , then the argument is that that 's a fair levy against that allowance . |
| 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 | As readers who have pursued this work from its outset will be aware , our argument is that one of the persistent strengths of pluralism is its capacity to produce consistent and detailed descriptions of particular aspects of reality . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Basically his argument is that all aspects of musical form — Adorno instances overall structure ( the thirty-two-bar chorus ) , melodic range , song-types and harmonic progressions — depend on pre-existing formulae and norms , which have the status virtually of rules , are familiar to listeners and hence are entirely predictable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The implication of the argument is that 1823–4 , so far as petitioning to gain mass support was concerned , should be seen primarily as a new start in many places . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , while agreeing that crime must be controlled , this functionalist argument is that some criminal behaviour has positive and useful functions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The logical extension of this argument is that some form of interdependence might be possible , where Third World actors could carve out niches for themselves in the crevices that the hegemon TNCs leave unattended . |
| 17 | Firstly , if the argument is that any of the suggested markets — be they for products , corporate control or managerial talent — at present actually operates to constrain corporate managers , this is not something which is empirically demonstrated , and given the present nature of these markets it seems an implausible claim . |
| 18 | Broadly , Wendler 's argument is that these four factors have favourably intersected for a sub-set of technologies — Unix , C and TCP/IP — in large — scientific , engineering , government and education — but niche markets . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The most common source of any argument is that both sides are absolutely right but each is looking at a different part of the situation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Our argument is that this type of politics has a strong basis in instincts and emotion as well as in political economy . |
| 24 | One problem with King 's line of argument is that several modern presidents , apparently long on relevant experience , have not done well in the White House . |
| 25 | One argument is that excessive government expenditure adversely affects individual freedom and choice . |
| 26 | Deffenbacher 's argument is that those studies which show enhanced memory in arousing circumstances are operating on the ascending portion of the inverted-U function , while those which show impairment are operating on the descending portion of the curve associated with high arousal levels . |
| 27 | Because these are short-term and rather non-specific behavioural changes , they must be regarded as forms of non-associative learning , but important to Kandel 's argument is that classical conditioning is also possible ; in this the unconditioned stimulus is a shock to the tail , and the conditioned stimulus a mild tactile stimulus to the siphon . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Again , the argument is that social life , particularly in the advanced societies such as the USA , is led at the increasingly superficial level of appearances and utterances . |
| 30 | The point about the above argument is that alienistic attitudes can become the prevalent force at every stage of a deaf person 's education . |