Example sentences of "an idea that [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if he recommends support for an idea that does not work , he will hear all about it . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Swallowing hard the consultant patiently suggested that he contact hotel reception for help ; an idea that had n't occurred to the businessman . |
| 4 | But obviously it was an idea that had never occurred to him before , and his mind would take a little while to accommodate it . |
| 5 | It was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler as a graphic description of an idea that goes back at least two hundred years , to a time when there were two theories about light : one , which Newton favored , was that it was composed of particles ; the other was that it was made of waves . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There is a preference in written English for sentences within one paragraph to begin with an idea that has already been mentioned . |
| 8 | This was an offshoot of an idea that has still to surface . |
| 9 | Democracy in industry , or , more broadly , at the work place , is an idea that has often been discussed , but with a few exceptions ( including Yugoslavia to some extent ) has hardly as yet been embarked on as a serious practice in most societies . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The union , he says , ‘ is an idea that lives on in the minds of our workers and their children ’ . |