Example sentences of "[unc] idea that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to follow from Darwin 's ideas that as the generations pass , so the organisms in a particular line of descent ( lineage ) must become better and better adapted to the prevailing conditions . |
| 2 | The Prelude , which is , in fact , the nearest thing to the great philosophical poem which Coleridge hoped Wordsworth would produce , was mostly written while Coleridge was in Malta , and it is as an exposition of Wordsworth 's ideas that we must read it ; for Coleridge , as we shall see , had already begun to return to orthodox Christianity and in 1803 was shocked at Wordsworth 's irreverence : ‘ O dearest William ! |
| 3 | They can be overstimulated by variety , and often it is the teacher 's ideas that are expressed and not the pupils ' . |
| 4 | Even apart from these wider consequences of his thought about persons , Locke 's idea that their identity consists in continuity of self-consciousness came under attack . |
| 5 | He rejected John Calvin 's idea that Jesus paid a penalty to God . |
| 6 | For rather similar reasons , Darwin reacted against Lamarck 's idea that organisms have an inner drive to evolve greater complexity . |
| 7 | The negotiations with the gallery were apparently severely threatened , however , by Lord Cholmondeley 's idea that he might withdraw the Holbein from Christie 's and , indeed , from the market for a year . |
| 8 | think of an addition to the other person 's idea that improves it and overcomes the snag you have identified . |
| 9 | Essentially Cockburn updates Marx 's idea that the state acts as an ‘ executive of the bourgeoisie ’ , to include social reproduction as an important concern of the state and ideology as an important dimension of domination by the state . |
| 10 | There are even suggestions that Persinger 's idea that weather systems can trigger UAPs might be realistic . |
| 11 | Immanuel Yelikovsky 's idea that the Earth stopped rotating in Old Testament times is attractive , as Martin Gardner points out in his recent Science , Good , Bad and Bogus , because it seems to verify the Old Testament . |
| 12 | It was Major 's idea that Foreign Office minister Tristan Garel-Jones , a passionate pro-European and hate figure for the right , should make a high profile defence of the Treaty . |
| 13 | Many feel a certain warmth for Kant 's idea that the only thing which is good without qualification and in all circumstances is a good will , without accepting that a good will is one concerned only with the performance of duty for duty 's sake . |
| 14 | The second query is prompted by Winch 's idea that the order in the minds of the actors is to be traced by identifying the rules which guide their thoughts and actions . |
| 15 | One is Einstein 's idea that the effects of gravity can be represented by a space-time that is curved or distorted — ; warped — by the matter and energy in it . |
| 16 | This hypothesis gave later biologists something to test , and in the event to prove false , thus indicating the truth of Bacon 's dictum that error is better then confusion , and of Popper 's idea that science works through conjectures and refutations . |
| 17 | ( Subscribers to the ‘ cock-up ’ theory of history will be interested to learn that the framers of the American constitution were much impressed by Montesquieu 's idea that it was the separation of powers in Britain that had enabled the British to maintain their freedom from tyranny . |
| 18 | A second feature that we believe must be part of any ultimate theory is Einstein 's idea that the gravitational field is represented by curved space-time : particles try to follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space , but because space-time is not flat their paths appear to be bent , as if by a gravitational field . |
| 19 | It was Denis 's idea that Jack and I should have a medical . |
| 20 | Peter had been trying to prove they should have left him behind ; it had been his father 's idea that he should go , needing the practice if he was ever to go hunting . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr Aycliffe , was it Mr Beckenham 's idea that you should delve into my history ? ’ |
| 22 | It was Joe 's idea that the part of the police inspector — posing as a Metropolitan Water Board inspector — should go to Ken . |
| 23 | Chris 's idea that was . |
| 24 | I 'm more interested in the , the kind of s so called philosophical erm ideas that have been raised , as whether this , you know , these kind of ideas of a , a kind of ideal state are just possible . |
| 25 | We are grateful for imaginative erm ideas that come up anywhere in the Council and we do consider them , but on reflection this seemed not one that was worth pursuing in Oxford . |
| 26 | The empiricists , although they may not have taken up Descartes ' idea that the mind is an immaterial substance , followed him in treating the contents of mind as objects private and internal to the individual and different from physical objects . |
| 27 | Fairlie emphasizes that the House has no corporate feeling , it can not stand apart from the government , and the parliamentary reformers ' idea that the House can recover some of its former powers is both impracticable and , in his judgement , undesirable . |
| 28 | They are self selecting , and what we 've got to puncture is not the erm idea that the best goes forward , which is what you 're suggesting , erm but the idea of this self-selecting bit , it 's quite true that it tends to be men who put themselves forward for selection and election , and women do n't . |
| 29 | Now y I mean you 've got no preconception th th y idea that this is going to ha happen at all . |