Example sentences of "argument that [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just this kind of argument that two company directors put forward when they were prosecuted in New South Wales in 1979 for apparently causing shareholders to lose more than A$22 millions ( Hopkins 1980b ) . |
| 2 | Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) . |
| 3 | It is not a good objection to his argument that different pragmatist judges will make different decisions about how best to limit past damage in hard cases . |
| 4 | For him , the main issue was job security , to be sustained by keeping pits open and working hours restrained ( the latter policy being advanced on the argument that longer working hours and working weeks threatened safety standards ) . |
| 5 | The second hopeful sign is that the state and its criminal justice system ( broadly conceived to include criminal , administrative , and civil law ) has shown itself receptive to arguments that corporate crime victims deserve protection and that corporate criminals deserve sanctioning , particularly when those arguments have been well orchestrated , empirically supported , and contain implicit electoral threats . |