Example sentences of "argument is that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The thrust of this argument is that tribunals which resolve disputes have matured beyond the framework envisaged by the Franks Report .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 His argument is that newspapers may be inhibited about discussing the commercial interests of their proprietors but otherwise they exercise independent judgement .
5 Here the argument is that correctionalists are helping to divert attention away from the ‘ real ’ problems , rather than that they are necessarily helping to crush revolutionary potential .
6 The essence of his argument is that changes in behavioural codes reflect changes in the power and dependency relations they are rooted in .
7 Wolpe 's argument is that changes in the labour process have resulted in a disjunction between the skills taught by the education system and the skills ( or , in a sense , lack of skills ) demanded in the labour market .
8 No one pretends that ageing has no ill-effects : the argument is that birthdays do not signpost them .
9 But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account .
10 The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best .
11 The argument is that funds should not be diverted to the government sector if they can be put to a more productive use in the private sector .
12 The presumption behind such arguments is that theists wish their statements about God to be propositions that it would be impossible to deny .
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