Example sentences of "argument [was/were] [conj] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The argument was that different components of personality are built up in particular individuals as a consequence of cultural conditioning . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The main direction of the editorial 's argument was that positive discrimination was ‘ dangerous muddling ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | The official argument was that this ceremony reflected Jesus ' washing of his disciples ' feet , all of them males . |
| 10 | 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 . |