Example sentences of "this idea that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is by means of this idea that the State is linked with the earlier part of the origin of kinship and marriage . |
| 3 | ‘ This idea that the flame of freedom in the East was ignited in Conservative Central Office is just poppycock . |
| 4 | This idea that the essentials for salvation are never ‘ above reason ’ sits uneasily with what Locke has already said about the practical difficulty of working them out for oneself . |
| 5 | I still had this idea that my weight was too personal a topic for other people to talk about . |
| 6 | A couple of years of university so familiarises us with this idea that literature dissolves entirely into the drudgery of reading and writing crit . |
| 7 | Obviously this sense of guilt , this idea that I had betrayed a friendship , spurred me on when I got older , not only to study birds but also actively to promote their well-being and do what I could to prevent their numbers from dwindling . |
| 8 | A spokesperson told NME : ‘ People have this idea that this is some kind of punk poetry reading session , but Rollins the speaker is a completely different animal to Rollins the musician . ’ |
| 9 | There is this idea that if you send the works of art abroad , either you put them in danger , or you 're selling your art cheaply , even though its only lending . |
| 10 | This idea that parents have equal responsibilities towards their children has remained the dominant one in the twentieth century , as is evidenced by the contemporary research data on inheritance which I discussed in chapter 1 . |
| 11 | This idea that relatives will acknowledge their responsibilities more effectively if alternatives are kept to the minimum has retained a strong hold on British social policy — a point to which I shall return . |
| 12 | ‘ Everything I do is honest and is undercut with this idea that we can ll relate to what I 'm talking about . |
| 13 | ‘ We still have this idea that if we do something morally wrong , or what They said was wrong , there 'll be some kind of Divine Retribution , ’ said William . |
| 14 | I think it 's wrong to underestimate erm i i it 's particularly initially , how , how positively reinforced it can , it can be around you erm , just this the idea of losing weight and that er you know , people will be wha , for whatever reasons are , either envious or they want to know how you can do it , they want to know , and particularly if it 's linked with exercise then it 's all very good things to do and you know , the media 's telling you and a , everyone 's telling that this healthy lifestyle that actually then goes out of control through being so controlled erm e e , there 's a , well there 's a thin line between it , being a very positive experience , and you 're suddenly buying smaller jeans and erm you know , it 's just everything is is feeding , if that 's the right word , this idea that it , that that it 's tremendous to be |
| 15 | I think this idea that these magazines are read only by the young is totally wrong , er , elderly women go to the libraries and the Mills and Boon 's section is one of their favourite places , its got more stock there than any of the more serious fiction , so there must be something in it that is satisfying their need for romance perhaps . |
| 16 | I think there 's a lot erm dandying about of this er , this idea that there will be a classless society . |
| 17 | But we did have this idea that the whole tribe went around together . |
| 18 | Where do some women get this idea that men do n't have feelings ? |
| 19 | Cos Jung had this idea that the whole the whole of life was a journey towards the discovery of what he called the real self . |
| 20 | Well he says want you to come and see this idea that we er how we do these commutators . |
| 21 | Zephandra Butolphi has this idea that you have repeat everything until it becomes one with the cosmic miasmal consciousness , so pages one , two and three read : |
| 22 | First , Rousseau 's concept of the ‘ Noble Savage ’ proposed that ‘ savages ’ who lacked the civilizing influence of Western culture were free of mental disorder — and it was this idea that many psychiatrists in England , France and the US latched on to in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries . |
| 23 | We were talking on the subject of erm divorce in in yesterday morning 's programme and this idea that erm the the whole procedure of getting a divorce som er would be speeded up and there 'd be something called , No faults divorce , so that people would n't have to point accusatory fingers at one another . |
| 24 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 25 | Anyway that 's not important , the important thing is that he makes this , this idea that the educated should be erm given plural votes , in order to protect democracy being distorted by class interest . |
| 26 | For it was precisely this idea that he promoted when he exhibited the drawings at his Gallery 291 , beginning in late May 1916 , and when he wrote about them in an issue of Camera Work the following October . |
| 27 | Erm , this idea that the police had more more money , yes they have had more money , what , what er , has been very conveniently ignored is the enormous amount of money we 've had to spend on special protection duties . |
| 28 | And I , I really get the impression that , for a while , you know there was , there was just this incredible rush and they just thought oh we 've got to do something , and , and tha that 's what and this idea that you 've got ta be right |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | Erm yeah er mm yeah no I 'm quite intrigued myself about this , this idea that erm somehow it 's heterosexuals who trus who are trustworthy and that , you know , once you have a sexuality that 's different from heterosexuality then you ca n't be trusted with children and you , you know you , you ca n't be trusted to er you know I do n't know , run boys ' clubs , you ca n't be trusted in , in a , you know , it 's sort of , it 's almost like , like erm er it , it almost flies in the face of evidence that the vast majority of sexual abuse that goes on of one sort or another is , is heterosexual , it 's |