Example sentences of "an idea that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics have sniped that the dividing line between the political and the profit motive has never been too sharply defined on Hamnett 's agenda , a feeling provoked by such off-the-cuff comments as her enthusiasm for an idea that will ‘ make me rich and wo n't hurt animals ’ . |
| 2 | The old tennis court was transformed , John confesses , with ‘ an idea that came straight from Vita Sackville-West : four white prunuses in a white garden . |
| 3 | The union , he says , ‘ is an idea that lives on in the minds of our workers and their children ’ . |
| 4 | DeFries had an idea that to be a star you had to act like a star so everything was first class . |
| 5 | It was an idea that persisted . |
| 6 | One course being considered is to issue short-term deficit-financing bonds and to increase taxes on oil and oil products , an idea that Japan 's oil industry has already begun lobbying against . |
| 7 | This was an idea that appealed strongly to me , though Unamuno had not been thinking of some of the ‘ brothers in solitude ’ — the outcasts from social and sexual ‘ normality ’ — who were the brothers that first sprang to my mind on reading that sentence in Corsham . |
| 8 | I learned afterwards that Mrs McLaren was in the habit of getting up and going to bed so early that night was confused with day ; and having an idea that she must get a message to the man who did her garden , she had gone out before it was light , lost her way , and fallen into the brook , where she was found by a man walking to work . |
| 9 | It is a paradox too , that because Christianity has been able to drop any mention of the physical cycles of women 's lives , secular culture has ended up with an idea that true liberation means we can forget ‘ those difficult days ’ , and ‘ carry on as normal ’ ; assuming , perhaps , that to be normal is to be more like a man . |
| 10 | I had an idea that if I dropped this diaper when we unloaded our bombs , it might help some mother . |
| 11 | This principle was based on an idea that was accepted by other Greek thinkers of this period — the concept of Time as a judge . |
| 12 | More remarkably , the Mohists appear to have been near to formulating the concept of functional dependence in the relation of motion to time , an idea that was not fully developed until the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century in Europe . |
| 13 | Swallowing hard the consultant patiently suggested that he contact hotel reception for help ; an idea that had n't occurred to the businessman . |
| 14 | So , an enterprising chap by the name of Len Middleton came up with an idea that would present the bait on fine , supple line ( the hair ) , and yet still have a strong hook attached to a strong , somewhat rigid line . |
| 15 | I had an idea that I should make a show of dignity and tried to do this by looking straight ahead , as if the crowds moving up and down the platform were beneath my notice . |
| 16 | A mechanic when he hits on an idea that makes him some money in a suggestion scheme though the joy is of the same substance but he will not feel the same depth of emotion as Einstein or Dante did . |
| 17 | A few pages would not suffice to describe an idea that he required a thousand pages of his Life Divine to illumine ; my purpose in giving these few passages is to point in one of the directions that the creative mind can travel to find other worlds of serene delight and magnificence . |
| 18 | That emotions have both a positive and a negative role is an idea that few would dispute . |
| 19 | Think how often you have an idea that you need to ‘ sell ’ to your boss or to colleagues . |
| 20 | He did not have a karma ; he was not locked onto an inescapable railway line to a predetermined destiny — an idea that has frozen the will of millions in the East . |
| 21 | But if he recommends support for an idea that does not work , he will hear all about it . ’ |
| 22 | The scheme is an adaptation of an idea that the Japan Electronic Machinery Industry Association developed three years ago to guide ambulances and rescue vehicles through cities . |
| 23 | It was crude and probably impracticable , but it embodied an idea that has now come into its own in the age of the silicon chip . |
| 24 | What was more , she had an idea that he must feel the same , because he in his turn talked to her quite naturally , without the slightest attempt to entertain or amuse her . |
| 25 | So often the preacher has an idea that he feels strongly about , and he then casts around for a scripture that seems to fit his message . |
| 26 | Mick had an idea that Bob Welch might be leaving the band and so he asked us to join . |
| 27 | It might only be pebbles against Patriots , and the Inspirals might be as interested in the ephemera of psychedelic pop and training shoes as they are in delivering any deeper message , but to their new American fans the Inspirals represent a special hope , an idea that something more sensitive than Guns N' Roses and Madonna might thrive . |
| 28 | In referring once again to employee share ownership schemes , an idea that got him into trouble after the last election , he signalled that he still believed in the ‘ popular socialism ’ that he had advanced in those days as the answer to Thatcher 's ‘ popular capitalism ’ . |
| 29 | He will continue to study for his external law degree at the University of London , but does not intend to train as a barrister — an idea that he toyed with for a while . |
| 30 | There is a preference in written English for sentences within one paragraph to begin with an idea that has already been mentioned . |