Example sentences of "[be] the idea that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffice it to say here that the centrepiece of that part of our discussion will be the idea that normality and psychosis are essentially continuous with each other and that healthy varieties in thinking style and the disposition to psychotic breakdown substantially overlap , indeed may be identical . |
| 2 | The most potent of these is the idea that Britons are subjects , rather than proper citizens . |
| 3 | This is the idea that offenders are punished , not to deter the offenders themselves , but pour encourager les autres . |
| 4 | Common to all these verses is the idea that Jesus ' death in some way removed our sin . |
| 5 | So is the idea that consideration must be an economic benefit of some kind . |
| 6 | Implicit is the idea that A has some form of control over B , or at least a strong bargaining position that enables A to score a ‘ victory ’ over B. Companies sometimes have power of this kind over suppliers , as where the company is one of only a limited number of buyers of a supplier 's goods or services , and even to an extent over governments , manifested , for example , in negotiations over subsidies or in successful attempts to dilute the content of regulation . |
| 7 | to the will of the people than participatory democracy or Russo All the individuals do is elect their governors , so this is the idea that Russo called not democracy but that to of aristocracy . |
| 8 | Implicit in that quote is the idea that science is more serious because of the more formal nature of staff-student relationships . |
| 9 | Reform ( or ‘ rehabilitation ’ ) is the idea that punishment can reduce the incidence of crime by taking a form which will improve the individual offender 's character or behaviour and make him or her less likely to re-offend in future . |
| 10 | This is the idea that denunciation can help to reduce the incidence of crime — a notion which may at first seem somewhat obscure , but which has a distinguished intellectual pedigree . |
| 11 | Of crucial importance to these perspectives is the idea that labour is relatively passive and inactive . |
| 12 | What I would find off-putting is the idea that people would see me as a divorced man 's bit of light relief . |
| 13 | The polar opposite of automatic support is the idea that people act out of self-interest in family relationships , as in other areas of life . |
| 14 | the first is the idea that productivity and profit only come from making the most of the people in the organisation . |
| 15 | A dominant factor is the idea that Switzerland is expensive . |
| 16 | This is the idea that crime and deviance have positive qualities and consequences that make them necessary for the healthy functioning of society . |
| 17 | Equally important to guard against , on the Tory side , is the idea that Mr Major must now be regarded as some kind of superman . |
| 18 | Central to patient-centred counselling , he says , is the idea that individuals are the best arbiters of what is and is not right for them . |
| 19 | Even more convincing as an account of a real dream is the idea that Gloucester was somehow responsible for his death — but only accidentally . |
| 20 | Yet it is the idea that men should have power over women , coupled with the belief that women have a particular ‘ role ’ — much more closely specified than is any corresponding male ‘ role ’ , that is coming to be questioned . |
| 21 | This is the idea that research is incompatible with the nurse 's prime concern . |
| 22 | What is useful is the idea that research and study in a particular field or discipline can proceed for many people for quite long periods in a relatively routine or normal way , without continually digging up the roots . |
| 23 | What is distinctive is the idea that consciousness can be adequately described in terms of causal episodes . |
| 24 | A framework for interpreting memory results for complex stimuli was discussed in the introduction , this was the idea that memory results depend on the type of schema subjects previously held for a situation . |
| 25 | It was magical ; it was illusory , as indeed was the idea that Calero could save the West with the weapons he was getting . |
| 26 | One of the myths Eleanor would speak against was the idea that socialists wanted to have women in common , and the men who made these accusations , she said , were the owners of the means of production anyway . |
| 27 | In keeping with the emphasis on liberalism , there was the idea that party competition should be restrained and moderate so that it would involve gradual change and only limited state intervention . |
| 28 | In keeping with the emphasis on parliamentarianism there was the idea that party power should reside within the parliamentary leadership alone . |