Example sentences of "the idea [be] [that] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is that while undersized fish will still be returned , their capture will earn a consolation point for the captor . |
| 2 | The idea is that while your guests are chattering happily away about the fabulous cottage pie , you , the host , are making subtle changes in the dining-room decor . |
| 3 | Unfortunately some regulatory authorities believe that smaller dosages will increase the possibility of selecting for resistant pests ; the idea is that whereas large doses should kill everything stone dead , small doses allow marginally resistant individuals to survive and breed . |
| 4 | The idea is that when all these quotas are added together , the researcher will be sure that the national profile on age , sex and employment status will have been faithfully reproduced . |
| 5 | The idea is that when an instruction that is meant for a coprocessor is encountered , the coprocessor handles it leaving the main processor to carry on with other jobs . |
| 6 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 7 | The idea is that if some action , X , is followed by a stimulus , for example food , which is ‘ reinforcing ’ , then the animal is more likely to do X in the future . |
| 8 | The idea is that if we do n't collect any money for you , we do n't get paid . |
| 9 | Right so the thing is if we talk about what you 've read and then The idea is that if there 's anything out of you 've read that 's given you an idea for an essay then you can do that . |
| 10 | The idea is that if the seller can sell the goods elsewhere at the same or a higher price than the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller has lost nothing , in which case he will receive only nominal damages . |
| 11 | The idea is that if first information is most important , then HL and GD lists will result in a favourable rating , and LH and GA lists will result in an unfavourable rating . |
| 12 | The idea is that if you ca n't donate cash , you might give an antique to go towards Phillip 's Telethon effort . |
| 13 | The idea is that if you build groins then it gets trapped by the groin , it can no longer travel erm pass beyond it , and what you get is the gradual fill-up with beach material between groins . |
| 14 | And the idea is that as we 've done with previous erm , discussions , if each one could come along armed with some information to do with healthy eating , erm , there 's a list on page a hundred and seventeen , that might start you off thinking . |
| 15 | The idea was that since repetition is so good the pathways across the cortex ( hence trans cortical ) from the brain regions for perceiving speech to the brain regions for producing speech are intact . |
| 16 | My parents went absolutely nuts because all my family are coal miners — my grandfathers , my uncles — and the idea was that if you got a chance you did n't go down the pit , but I wanted to . |
| 17 | The idea was that when that was done , on a signal I was to open up with the Breda and shoot up the café . |
| 18 | The idea was that when the cards had been returned , each dealer would get the leads he had generated . |
| 19 | The idea being that if you wanted to move the cloth which we will be doing for the banquet , you just lift it straight off there , hammer some more tenterhooks in somewhere else and put it on there as well . |