Example sentences of "[pron] idea that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Gould said : ‘ I knew the financial problems facing the club when I became manager in the summer and it was my idea that I should work without a contract . |
| 2 | Juliet , it was n't my idea that the whole truth should be kept from you . |
| 3 | It is principally in the genealogy of their ideas that one should look for evidence of their kinship . |
| 4 | In particular , what was wrong was their idea that ‘ science ’ should consist of demonstrative syllogisms , and their view of what the premisses of these should be like . |
| 5 | However , this does not mean that they are necessarily wrong in their idea that the Earth may have flipped over , simply that they have n't adequately worked out what could cause it to do so . |
| 6 | The thing she found galling about the English was their idea that the place was violent , dangerous , like Chicago during Prohibition , or New York . |
| 7 | ‘ Because she 's still fixated with her idea that Old Red 's been carrying a torch for your aunt for years , and it 's now burst into a fine new flame . |
| 8 | Loretta asked , rapidly adjusting her idea that the business of the girl 's suicide had damaged Puddephat 's career . |
| 9 | In 1926 , for instance , he returned to Westermarck ( whom he had read eleven years before ) attacking his ideas that the origin and development of the ideas of good and evil were caused merely by economic , genetic , and hygienic factors . |
| 10 | He was so forceful and dogmatic in his ideas that the Girls would be embarrassed at band calls when he interrupted acts , totally unknown to him , to tell them what he thought was wrong . |
| 11 | But Casaubon is not without insight in his idea that the committed experimental philosopher may come to think that all areas of human concern and experience are legitimate grist to his mill . |
| 12 | In connection with that , I wonder if you have thought of Vico 's history of the primitive races — of his idea that the ancient gods and later heroes are personifications of the fates and aspirations of the people rising in figures from the common mind ? |
| 13 | And the typing college was a come down , I can tell you , from his idea that she would go into a profession ; he 'd even thought of university . |
| 14 | It was his idea that it would become a model city at an initial cost of £100,000 . |
| 15 | He has been to Taiwan on two or three occasions and it was his idea that we come to New Zealand and develop our forward play ’ , said Lin . |
| 16 | The first is his idea that language is not a thing apart from the rest of life , and related to it only via what goes on in the mind of the language-user . |
| 17 | Trustee Arthur Houghton is called ‘ a loose cannon ’ due to his idea that the Cloisters ‘ could be made more appealing to the average visitor by weeding out the ‘ welter of objects ’ . |
| 18 | Daley countered this with his idea that black players can use the mental facility only with other blacks , believing that even the black players who had commanded football league places had not been allowed to play to their utmost because they were engulfed by whites who were on ‘ different wavelengths ’ . |
| 19 | Although Descartes was wrong to use a hydraulic analogy , his idea that animals come pre-equipped with a range of motor responses to sensory input , reflexes , proved correct . |
| 20 | Similarly , his idea that contact between different cultures merely led to decay and that Magian Jews and Faustian Europeans were bound to live in friction with each other , was to be an important intellectual influence on Mosley 's cultural anti-semitism and to re-inforce his later views on apartheid . |
| 21 | It was his idea that they should-read his books together and then discuss van der Post 's mystical ideas at mealtimes . |
| 22 | Tycho accused Ursus of stealing his idea that the sun revolved about the earth , carrying the planets with it . |
| 23 | In particular , his idea that the depths of the sea were lifeless was shown to be false with the deep-sea dredges begun in connection with the laying of telegraph cables beneath the oceans . |
| 24 | His idea that the Jews were to the Syrians what the Brahmans were to the Indians gained favour ( F.Gr.H. 715 F.3 . |
| 25 | More importantly , his idea that narrative grammar may be transformed or subverted by individual texts gives his grammar far greater analytical power , since elements which might fall outside the scope of a more rigid model may now be read as transformations of it . |
| 26 | We try and mould our ideas that we both have together what we get them from other people . |
| 27 | Thank you for sending me further information on your ideas that could give Blaenau Ffestiniog 's market hall a new lease of life appropriate to the Twenty-First Century . |
| 28 | Your idea that the King and I would lean back in indolence , allowing Famagusta to fatten and snigger , throwing away all the months of striving so that you could save your thick skin from a fight ? ’ |
| 29 | And that 's why your idea that I think it does have to be a very gradual process where we learn to trust each other , we learn to live by our decisions that we make together rather than separate decisions . |
| 30 | So that ruins your idea that I was hit with the bottle standing beside the bed . |