Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people get very upset about the idea that there might be any causes operating in the social world ; they fear that causal influences on human action rob people of their freedom of choice and dignity of action . |
| 2 | He was generally dismissive of the idea that the two could merge because , he said , they existed to serve the interests of two very different sets of shareholders . |
| 3 | He had found that even in Britain , where officials tended to be dismissive of the idea of a plan , people from private industry were receptive when he explained the Netherlands ' plan at a meeting : ‘ They said , ‘ Yes , we should like such a plan because it reduces our uncertainty . |
| 4 | In spite of herself , she was interested of the idea of Mike , ordinary Mike , looking after all those children . |
| 5 | Mr Hurd seemed particularly fond of the idea . |
| 6 | The Opposition are very fond of the idea that one can create new ’ safeguards ’ for employees . |
| 7 | Even ignoring the fact that they were meant as definitions of natures or essences , Gassendi finds something wrong with the idea of finding universal propositions for the premisses of a scientific syllogism . |
| 8 | Many of the new style trustees put in by Downing Street saw nothing wrong with the idea . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing wrong with the idea , ’ Andy says . |
| 10 | ‘ What was wrong with the idea of segmentation ? |
| 11 | It would of course be precisely different from the idea that a complete causal circumstance produces its effect and an incomplete one does n't . |
| 12 | As it is conceptually so different from the idea of the ‘ peer-group ’ used by Labov ( 1972a ) and Cheshire ( 1982 ) , it is relatively difficult to operationalize social network as a quantitative speaker variable . |
| 13 | Tallis argues that people talk of ‘ signifieds ’ , when they should say ‘ referents ’ ; there is nothing new or unfamiliar in the idea of verbal signs having multiple or even clashing references , and they have long been exploited by poets and punsters , as Tallis does in the title of his book . |
| 14 | This , of course , was not Basil 's intention , and was , like the distortions of Basic Design , due more to an unimaginative application of ideas rather than something intrinsically wrong in the idea itself . |
| 15 | The fact that our conceptual scheme is inseparable from the idea of such particulars , he might argue , does not testify to their existence per se . |
| 16 | But this merely confirms yet again that the idea of numerical diversity of ontological existents is inseparable from the idea of an objective order , and consequently that a clarification of the former idea depends upon a clarification of the sources and the conditions of intelligibility of such an order . |
| 17 | It will be shown , as was already briefly hinted earlier on , that the concept of objective order is inseparable from the idea of a plurality of witnessing selves — a " self " to be understood here in the sense of an experienced unity of biographical time , not as some kind of substantival entity — and the idea of error ; and that the latter ideas in turn can be clarified only through a careful study of the nature of language . |
| 18 | We are most interested in the idea of networking , sharing skills such as translation and using them for distance learning . ’ |
| 19 | As well as the teds there were always a few young art school types who were interested in the idea of teddy boy style . |
| 20 | Some member states , for example , were beginning to register large trade deficits while West Germany 's trade surplus continued to grow to embarrassingly large proportions : these discrepancies had made the national governments more interested in the idea of an economic union with coordinated monetary and budgetary policies . |
| 21 | It was in this context that Emily Faithfull and Bessie Rayner Parkes first became interested in the idea of opening the compositor 's trade to women . |
| 22 | Yeah , the sort of thing Lucy and I were talking about earlier is , it was just before I went on holiday so my memory is kind of hazy , it 's one where I was going to see the Arts Council and see if they were interested in the idea if they work |
| 23 | One of 20 councils interested in the idea is the Vale of the White Horse in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | Various groups have been invited to send representatives but the meeting is also open to anyone interested in the idea . |
| 25 | The West German government was not averse to the idea of rearmament . |
| 26 | One problem of working in limited specialty areas is that existing clients might be averse to the idea of employing the same search firm as their rivals ; so Merton , approached by another major retailer with an assignment , cleared the matter with Tesco first . |
| 27 | The CPP , which was happy to go along with the election , seems averse to the idea of losing it . |
| 28 | I had no wish to marry anyone now that I could n't marry Nour , but I was particularly averse to the idea of marrying my mother . |
| 29 | First I make the mistake of falling in love with this man who probably wo n't remember what I look like the minute I leave this place , even though he 's not averse to the idea of making love to me while we 're under the same roof . |
| 30 | And she was n't averse to the idea . |