Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] idea that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I do n't know whether you 've thought any more about that idea that Colin had , but , I mean , I do n't know , yo cos you have n't said you do , you have n't really looked round it . |
| 2 | Well there 's a whole range of kind of wacky ideas that we 'll be working on . |
| 3 | We take the piss out of him , because of this idea that he will be doing ‘ real police work ’ , but we all know that divisional work has higher status for a Chief Supt. than Research , and this is the cause for celebration . |
| 4 | It is by means of this idea that the State is linked with the earlier part of the origin of kinship and marriage . |
| 5 | It is when the Great Detective makes a jump out of such ideas that he solves the baffling mystery , that he sees , to quote a famous example from Poe , that the best place to hide a letter is in a letter-rack . |
| 6 | ‘ I once had a sort of vague idea that life in the country was innocent and uncomplicated , ’ said Lydia . |
| 7 | Thus , the UK was still a European leader in innovation in the 1950s and 1960s , but perhaps had a bias towards pure science rather than towards the commercial development of technological ideas that will form the next generation of industries . |
| 8 | The real test ahead is whether the policy review can generate a coherent body of distinctive ideas that afford electors positive incentives to vote Labour . |
| 9 | The book encapsulates a whole range of complex ideas that reach far beyond the story told within its pages . |
| 10 | Three hearty hurrahs , therefore , for the inventors of the GuitaRest , the kind of ultra-neat idea that keeps you awake at night wishing that you 'd thought of it . |
| 11 | The contrast with Stadtverkehr –m War–del the glossy German government publication with its wealth of imaginative ideas that were reviewed in Chapter Five , could hardly be greater.Whether dealing with residential areas , walking , cycling , public transport , or traffic calming the British manual is bereft of new ideas , cautious in tone and apparently oblivious to the revolution sweeping through Europe . |
| 12 | Those doubts and attacks have been allowed to return in the modern era following the dissolution of theocratic ideas that have supposed a particular religious belief to be an essential ingredient of sound political organisation . |
| 13 | This has been founded on a set of shared ideas that have at least until recently constituted the ruling ideology ( in both legal and political circles ) , at any rate on matters of sentencing policy . |
| 14 | Not out of any idea that taking drugs was morally wrong but simply because I was already enjoying myself and did n't feel the need of any chemical additions to that enjoyment . |
| 15 | Indeed , it is difficult to think of the expression of any ideas that does not reveal a moral attitude . |
| 16 | So complete was the ascendancy of Keynesian ideas that the antecedent classical modes of analysis were abandoned by all but a few die-hard sceptics . |
| 17 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 18 | Unlike Big Ideas that beget standardized commodities , these products undergo a continuous process of incremental change and adaptation . |
| 19 | A couple of years of university so familiarises us with this idea that literature dissolves entirely into the drudgery of reading and writing crit . |
| 20 | ‘ Everything I do is honest and is undercut with this idea that we can ll relate to what I 'm talking about . |
| 21 | Er are you happy with this idea that , that sort of the immediate future in the newly liberated areas is , is just rent reduction , interest rate reduction , consolidate that and then move on ? |
| 22 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
| 23 | It is , therefore , unreasonable to expect that first-line or even middle management would necessarily have the perspective or information needed to deal effectively with all ideas that are brought to their attention ( second communication gap ) . |
| 24 | by the way he 's with fascist ideas that all this |
| 25 | It may well strain belief that eight hours of enjoyment can make primary school children comfortable with chemical ideas that are being chopped out of GCSE syllabuses , yet this much and more can be achieved by challenging a teaching tradition that is almost as unhelpful to chemistry as phlogiston was . |
| 26 | do you think that maybe they could benefit from this idea that you 've been talking about today ? |
| 27 | It is inherent in such ideas that life must be fairly common throughout the Universe . |
| 28 | Again , we 're back to this idea that , you know , it 's ridiculous stuck in a drama course and not and , and looking at them just as , as text . |
| 29 | It is to these ideas that we turn first . |
| 30 | His engineering analysis of the problem brought him to many ideas that were very similar to Alexander 's in terms of posture and sitting . |