Example sentences of "argument [be] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general implications of Lienhardt 's argument are that all languages have the potential to make abstract , relatively neutral statements , if called upon to do so . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The basis of his argument is that emotional experience and emotional behaviour involve separate , although interlinked , parts of the brain . |
| 4 | But my argument is that that culture should not be accepted uncritically . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Our argument is that this type of politics has a strong basis in instincts and emotion as well as in political economy . |
| 15 | One argument is that excessive government expenditure adversely affects individual freedom and choice . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The point about the above argument is that alienistic attitudes can become the prevalent force at every stage of a deaf person 's education . |
| 21 | The essence of the argument is that linguistic expressions derive their meanings and legitimate usages from the range of activities and contexts in which they have evolved — meanings , therefore , derive from what Wittgenstein calls ‘ forms of life ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The argument was that different components of personality are built up in particular individuals as a consequence of cultural conditioning . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The main direction of the editorial 's argument was that positive discrimination was ‘ dangerous muddling ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | The official argument was that this ceremony reflected Jesus ' washing of his disciples ' feet , all of them males . |