Example sentences of "idea is that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The idea is that quarks come in three colors — red , green , and blue — ; but that any isolated bound state , such as a hadron , has to be colorless , either a combination of red , green , and blue like the proton , or a mixture of red and antired , green and antigreen , and blue and antiblue , like the pi meson .
2 The idea is that users with high storage demands should achieve continuous free disk space by enabling large files to be stored off-line while keeping them easily accessible .
3 One idea is that viruses can simply pass through the cell membrane , perhaps aided in some way by the receptor protein ( B 1 in Figure ) .
4 The idea is that managers derive utility from spending the company 's funds to an extent beyond that necessary for profit maximisation .
5 Erm , the idea is that letters are uniquely sep specified by different combinations of features , but certain letters would share more features than others So the idea is that you might consider that the letter X is made up of two features line going that way , whoops , yeah , and a line going that way , which when they 're viewed together make the letter X. The letter Y is made up of a line going that way and a line going that way .
6 The OSI Network Management Forum has delivered its Omnipoint 1 reference model for builders of integrated management products : Omnipoint is a set of standards , specifications and technologies that were created by a broad coalition and it is referenced in the US government 's Network Management Profile , soon to be included in government procurement guidelines in the UK ; among the technologies lurking in there are CMIP/X.700 , SNMP , work from X/Open Co Ltd and the Object Management Group ; the specifications are due to be published formally in October , and the idea is that systems that conform to the Omnipoint specs will be able to interwork .
7 The idea is that properties of an object , such as the shape and colour of a thing , could , in principle , exist on their own ( ’ in time' — as opposed to in some more Platonic way ) apart from anything else , whereas good does not have the same possibility of existing as an independent object .
8 The general idea is that members ( and any guests who are potential members ) should arrive between 6.45 and 7.00 p.m. and collect a glass of wine .
9 The underlying idea is that citizens are expected to keep control over their behaviour , but that in circumstances where even a person of normal self-control might be provoked , the offence may be reduced from murder to manslaughter .
10 As you can see , so far six hundred organizations have registered with us and what we 've done is put them in a rather , rather flash booklet and the idea is that youngsters , their parents , teachers , youth leaders , scout leaders , anybody , gets hold of one of these booklets and in it , it tells them how to go sailing .
11 The latter idea is that organisations have spare capacity that can be brought into play so as to enable the company to comply with the demands of one group without requiring a damaging transfer from another .
12 The Mountain View , California-based Unicode Consortium has merged its multi-lingual encoding standard with the recently approved ISO 10646 , developed by the International Standards Organisation : the idea is that computers all over the world should agree on which number stands for which character so they will be able to communicate other in any language .
13 ‘ The idea is that anglers should be far more aware of the resource they are using and it should be the job of the IFM to teach them more about the fish , ’ said IFM official Robin Templeton .
14 And the idea is that points will be awarded th for which they will pay a , a licence fee .
15 The broad idea is that statements belong to languages and facts to the world .
16 One 's first idea is that facts are similar to , if not identical with , true propositions ( which would explain why there are no false facts ) .
17 One leading idea is that gases such as hydrogen cyanide , methane , and ammonia dissolved in pools ( as they surely would ) and that as these pools evaporated , the compounds became more concentrated , and finally reacted together to form more complex organic molecules .
18 But the broad idea is that events are governed by laws of nature which apply whenever similar events occur in similar conditions .
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