Example sentences of "['s] idea that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially Cockburn updates Marx 's idea that the state acts as an ‘ executive of the bourgeoisie ’ , to include social reproduction as an important concern of the state and ideology as an important dimension of domination by the state . |
| 2 | Immanuel Yelikovsky 's idea that the Earth stopped rotating in Old Testament times is attractive , as Martin Gardner points out in his recent Science , Good , Bad and Bogus , because it seems to verify the Old Testament . |
| 3 | Many feel a certain warmth for Kant 's idea that the only thing which is good without qualification and in all circumstances is a good will , without accepting that a good will is one concerned only with the performance of duty for duty 's sake . |
| 4 | The second query is prompted by Winch 's idea that the order in the minds of the actors is to be traced by identifying the rules which guide their thoughts and actions . |
| 5 | One is Einstein 's idea that the effects of gravity can be represented by a space-time that is curved or distorted — ; warped — by the matter and energy in it . |
| 6 | A second feature that we believe must be part of any ultimate theory is Einstein 's idea that the gravitational field is represented by curved space-time : particles try to follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space , but because space-time is not flat their paths appear to be bent , as if by a gravitational field . |
| 7 | It was Joe 's idea that the part of the police inspector — posing as a Metropolitan Water Board inspector — should go to Ken . |
| 8 | The empiricists , although they may not have taken up Descartes ' idea that the mind is an immaterial substance , followed him in treating the contents of mind as objects private and internal to the individual and different from physical objects . |
| 9 | Fairlie emphasizes that the House has no corporate feeling , it can not stand apart from the government , and the parliamentary reformers ' idea that the House can recover some of its former powers is both impracticable and , in his judgement , undesirable . |