The phrase "arguments that were started" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to discussions or disputes that have begun or been initiated in the past.
Example: "The arguments that were started during the meeting led to a deeper understanding of the issues at hand."
Alternatives: "discussions that were initiated" or "debates that were begun".
The fight, he said, was preceded by an argument that was started when someone from the defendant's group bumped into someone from Pham's group.
By now you've learned the hard truth that your own personal opinions and impressions fail to qualify as scholarly arguments, you need to join the conversation that's started before you, especially on large topics like globalization or abortion or love or whatever.
With an end in sight to the battle for Baghdad, President Bush is now moving to end two arguments that were never resolved before the shooting started: One between the United States and Europe over who will run Iraq, and a second between his own State and Defense Departments over how to run it.
Instead, Judge Glasser has entertained an unusual motion from the Village of Island Park, filed in June 1998, that basically asked him to renounce his 1995 decision — either by starting over, rehearing arguments that were first brought before him almost 20 years ago, or dismissing the case.
Those "rushing to defend the BBC are tilting at windmills" and "trying to have an argument that's not been started, certainly not by me".
Don't start drama or arguments, or arguments that are unnecessary.
That is an argument that many are starting to have over aspects of the tech industry.
"This idea that there is an ideological drive to destroy the BBC is just extraordinary, the people rushing to defend the BBC are tilting at windmills, they are trying to have an argument that has never been started, certainly not by me," he said, during an interview session at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Before we proceed to that argument, notice that we are starting to see how the philosophical motivations of the work we are surveying differ from program to program; the contrast between psychologistic and anti-psychologistic agendas is not the only, or even the most important, dimension of variation.
"You could make the argument that I would be starting for Canada.
