Example sentences of "and the idea [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maturity brings new perspectives and the idea that they are often manipulated for their sporting prowess brings with it a clarity of perception , a perception succinctly summarized by Birchfield 's sprinter Lincoln Asquith : ‘ I was used by school teachers 'cause I was good at sport . |
| 2 | The two unattached women seemed to have been drawn together perhaps by their very unattachedness but more certainly by Rupert Stonebird 's dinner party and the idea that they might meet him in Rome . |
| 3 | The second one : having got over the actual evacuation and the idea that I probably would n't ever see my mother again , being evacuated in itself was great . |
| 4 | And the idea that I resisted her desire to vamoose from my apartment , that I was unmoved when she burst into tears — how could I , an aficionado of opera , fail to respond to lachrymosity ? — is a ridiculous exaggeration . |
| 5 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
| 6 | I have great difficulty coming to terms with all that was being said under H one about migration and the relationship to Leeds and the idea that it matters enormously in the realm exactly where this new settlement , which I hope does go ahead , actually goes . |
| 7 | So , even though the man was a stranger and I was afraid of him , I began worrying about his being sick , and the idea that he might die made me feel quite desperate . |