Example sentences of "idea of [art] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sceptical argument therefore claims that you can not make sense of the idea of a subject of experience other than yourself . |
| 2 | In the sphere of aesthetics , Lessing , Herder , and , a generation later , Friedrich Schlegel not only base their diverse theories on material or formulations put into currency by Winckelmann , but might be said to owe to him , as Schlegel put it , " the very idea of a history of art " , conceived as the development of a series of individual works towards a perfect beauty . |
| 3 | Talking during the week with a veteran of the ANC — a man who has opposed Smith publicly and privately for years — I was surprised to hear him say , ‘ Whether the PM was right or wrong , we must assist him now to look into this idea of a change of heart . ’ |
| 4 | This idea of a hierarchy of control allows the analyst to focus on each element in turn , and derive ideas about monitoring and controlling at various levels . |
| 5 | Coun Pearson called for a return to the original idea of a chapel of remembrance , where people could sit quietly and think of the ones they have lost . |
| 6 | Thus the substantive apple contains the lexical idea of a kind of fruit : this is its material significate , or lexeme , the import of meaning which is said of some object in the speaker 's experience . |
| 7 | The discussion of national intelligence and the psychologists ' debates over it did not initiate the idea of a system of education specifically designed to foster talent , to prevent waste of intelligence as a national resource . |
| 8 | So they , they welcomed the idea of a separation of powers but they also insisted on another principle , probably the most important principle of American government , and that is the principle of federalism . |
| 9 | After the task of unification had been accomplished , and the despotic methods of absolutism could no longer be justified , these elements came toward with the idea of a separation of power . |
| 10 | The idea of a day of creation being ‘ flashed upon the screen ’ by Genesis , as the report said , was incongruous . |
| 11 | ‘ My husband 's idea of a night of sex , ’ she informs me , ‘ was wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am . ’ |
| 12 | Understandably , perhaps , there is a strong temptation to try to avoid these difficulties by taking qualities as basic and confining oneself to the idea of a plurality of qualities , with particulars being interpreted as bundles of qualities . |
| 13 | The source of meaningfulness of these ideas lies in the logical relationships that bind together a cluster of basic ideas into a coherent pattern Thus if the idea of numerical diversity presupposes the possibility of irreducible relations , the idea of irreducible relations , in its turn , presupposes the possibility of an objective order , and the idea of an objective order ( I shall argue ) is unintelligible without the idea of a plurality of points of view occupied by different selves . |
| 14 | This distinction , however , is itself analytically linked with the idea of a plurality of selves ; and the latter idea , in turn , is inseparable from , and inexplicable independently of , the idea of error . |
| 15 | If it is not possible to define the idea of numerical identity in terms of the criteria of re-identification , surely the idea of a plurality of particulars similarly can not be defined in terms of the criteria under which such particulars are differentiated from each other . |
| 16 | The idea of a chooser , a decider , who has a full capacity for rational decision and choice , seems to be central to our idea of a holder of rights … . |
| 17 | But the idea of a continuum of language-games employing the same word , whose contexts recall more or less distantly the analogous human original , seems more adequately to capture the spirit of what we need to say in such circumstances . |
| 18 | During this period the idea of a Council of Ireland was repeatedly canvassed in terms of the Westminster White Paper of 20 March 1973 . |
| 19 | Although majority opinion in Ulster might have been prepared to let a power sharing Executive show what it could do , the same opinion was not prepared to accept the idea of a Council of Ireland since that could be regarded as a step towards unification of North and South . |
| 20 | The idea of a Council of Ireland was discarded . |
| 21 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
| 22 | The idea of a department of state concerned solely with foreign affairs had clearly still to fight for acceptance . ) |
| 23 | The very idea of a polymer of ethylene went against conventional wisdom . |
| 24 | The medieval idea of a community of scholars , of an internal culture of sharing , of a common set of interests , of a common discourse , has a unique opportunity of being realized in a completely new and exciting form . |
| 25 | Other buskers welcome the idea of a code of conduct , saying that it 'll help improve the quality of entertainers on the streets . |
| 26 | It is not that these writers were necessarily against the idea of a science of society , but they did argue that the idea and practice of social science is not as straightforward as positivism would have us believe . |
| 27 | He found it ‘ intolerable ’ to think of the toys falling into the hands of other children — ‘ The idea of a crowd of embryo right wee fellas ’ ' getting hold of them and Bolshevising and applying to their own base purposes that well-ordered world in which we spent so many happy hours ’ . |
| 28 | It is , rather , that the very idea of a body of knowledge about the world , of the sort we have now , the very idea of a natural science , was being forged at the time . |
| 29 | A final point to make about the adoption of accruals accounting is that in the USA the Governmental Accounting Standards Board has further developed the idea of a set of accounts which are not purely cash-based but are also not full accruals accounting as best commercial practice would envisage it . |
| 30 | Then I heard about the idea of a set of stamps and it seemed this was a way to recognise his work . |