Example sentences of "idea [was/were] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , good … fourth word … he 's pointing his thumb somewhere … he 's pointing at Conrad … off ? … failure … sorry , Conrad … he 's looking disgusted … sour … off … bad … yes ? … bad … good , good , bad … seven words … seventh word … oh , my God , he 's pointing at his arm … this is torture … whose idea was this ? |
| 2 | ‘ I started to think , ‘ Whose idea was this ? ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Whose idea was this , anyway , his wife 's or his daughter 's ? ’ |
| 4 | His idea was this : Suppose you fire a cannonball vertically upward from the surface of the earth . |
| 5 | The idea was this : When the star becomes small , the matter particles get very near each other , and so according to the Pauli exclusion principle , they must have very different velocities . |
| 6 | Whose stupid idea was this separation , anyway ? ’ |