Example sentences of "argument was that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His argument was that aggregate demand could best be stimulated through fiscal expansion , and that in the prevailing conditions most of the increase in national income would feed through into output and therefore employment rather than inflation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her argument was that simulated sexual acts on the stage , an attempted scene of male rape , were not only offensive but constituted a criminal offence under Section 13 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 . |
| 4 | Counsel 's second argument was that all the evidence presented to the court was that the defendant had been seen engaging in actual violence , but not threatening it , as the section requires , On this submission the Court concluded that there was sufficient evidence in the narrative presented to the jury from which they were entitled to conclude that there was threatening behaviour . |
| 5 | The other argument was that different description types might merely reduce the tendency to group the atomic elements together without any prediction regarding which singular continuation would predominate . |
| 6 | The argument was that different components of personality are built up in particular individuals as a consequence of cultural conditioning . |
| 7 | The argument was that fiscal and monetary policies could be used to achieve the government 's objectives as regards full employment and the balance of payments ( although such policies were not very successful in that they gave rise to stop — go ) , and that incomes policies could be used to contain the inflationary consequences . |
| 8 | The main direction of the editorial 's argument was that positive discrimination was ‘ dangerous muddling ’ . |
| 9 | The argument was that crustal shortening within the continents would produce the same displacement of underlying layers , but the seas would be spread wider and therefore lower . |
| 10 | The argument was that some candidates , particularly from the emergent Labour Party , were not of independent means and would be otherwise unable to serve if they were elected ( the first Labour MPs had appeared in 1906 ) . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | The defence argument was that this was a preliminary to ‘ conventional ’ intercourse , and that if the husband was exempt from liability for rape , he should equally be exempt from liability for indecent assault . |
| 13 | The official argument was that this ceremony reflected Jesus ' washing of his disciples ' feet , all of them males . |
| 14 | Our argument was that British Telecom and the other operators should be negotiating with the regulator to make sure that the necessary infrastructure commitments are met . |
| 15 | His main argument was that Gothic , having been used for nineteenth-century churches , should now be considered as the basis of all building types , particularly domestic , although commercial and public buildings were considered . |