Example sentences of "[prep] idea that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |
| 2 | In the Waste Land which Eliot eventually produced , the pain of personal resuscitations persists , but that pain is bodied forth using a structure of ideas that results from the coming together in Eliot 's mind of various views of the savage and city . |
| 3 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 4 | Babbage adds : ‘ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question . ’ |
| 5 | Child care became something of a battleground , and policy-makers and practitioners were influenced by the battles of ideas that raged over their activities . |
| 6 | This matter is important partly because of the particular status in religious thought of ideas that God 's existence can be ‘ proved ’ . |
| 7 | He was pleasant enough in general , though most people who met him formed the vaguest of ideas that he might be dangerous in some unspecified way . |
| 8 | ‘ He has a lot of ideas that he has not yet shared with the public . |
| 9 | Most significantly , these ideas are born out of boredom and the expectation of future and continuing boredom , and this affects the sort of ideas that they are . |
| 10 | Enterprise zones originated in a number of ideas that began to amalgamate towards the end of the 1970s . |
| 11 | The difference of approach illustrated here between the apparently hard-working development from carefully formulated theory towards new ideas to be tested where there are gaps in the subject on the one hand and this last-mentioned almost accidental following-up of ideas that just seem to occur out of the blue , would , on the face of things , seem to make it difficult to use two such disparate methods of enquiry in one discipline . |
| 12 | One response to this affront is to erect an alternative system of belief ; to fabricate another , esoteric world of ideas that seems to challenge and in turn to trivialise the ideas that are proving so bothersome . |
| 13 | It was suggested that a dominant ideology was perhaps any widely shared set of ideas that was also powerful ( meaning , presumably , those ideas held by the government ) . |
| 14 | They reveal the lively interchange of ideas that took place , including the expansion and development of Watkins ' original work . |
| 15 | Even Bleuler himself considered what most of us would now recognise as a truism : that ‘ autism ’ is a feature of normal mental life , accounting for the emergence , or in some cases deliberate exploration , of ideas that arise without logic from unconscious layers of the mind . |
| 16 | The concept of ideology here signifies the collection of ideas that are merely the product of thought and that have no material basis . |
| 17 | ( I am reminded of a passage in a book by Doris Lessing , where she says : ‘ I want this court to condemn Volyen utterly , root and branch , for failing to instruct its young in the rules that its own psychologists and anthropologists have extracted from research and study : for failing to arm its youth with information that would enable it — the youth — to resist being swept away with any system of ideas that happens to be available ’ . ) |
| 18 | But so wide are the left 's woes — in the past few years , they have affected socialist parties from Britain at one end of Europe to Greece at the other — that it is worth considering the possibility that something else is at work , too : the body of ideas that socialists used to represent has lost so much electoral support that socialist parties , at least in their old guise , are doomed . |
| 19 | This , she believes , is due in part to the interchange of ideas that the Association facilitates . |
| 20 | By such means it could win trust and acceptance of ideas that would seldom have stood a chance when presented through public oratory . |
| 21 | An individual facilitator 's performance can be viewed by looking at the percentage of ideas that move successfully from one stage to the next ( see Figure 2 ) . |
| 22 | Competitive advantage today comes from continuous , incremental innovation and refinement of a variety of ideas that spread throughout the organization . |
| 23 | ‘ If they had been involved in the kind of ideas that led to this distinctive industrial policy of '73 –'74; they would have demanded as a quid pro quo for the successive incomes policies of 1975–6–7 the other side of the social contract , that these various aspects of industrial policy and worker participation in its various forms should be implemented ’ ( 1980 , p.7 ) . |
| 24 | Before the conservative country-offensive had become official policy they had flirted with French supporters of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy ( regarded by its Spanish admirers as a piece of thoroughgoing regalism ) , and had supplied a stock of ideas that were to govern , not only the church settlement made by the liberals in the Cortes of Cadiz , but the programme of liberalism until 1939 . |
| 25 | This book 's full of ideas that herbalists used effectively long before aspirin and antibiotics , and which are becoming increasingly popular again . |
| 26 | She was trying hard to catch up with this new revelation , and it obviously was n't easy ; her expression more or less steady , it was mainly her eyes that betrayed the complex reprocessing of ideas that was taking place within . |
| 27 | Er er I do n't think after going through everything we 've said , I think we 've all got the sort of ideas that we could all make good criminals , |
| 28 | This does not mean that its findings will be biased because of this ; it is simply setting out the parameters and the objectives of the research and the kinds of ideas that will inform it . |
| 29 | Charles Muscatine ( 1986 ) notes that the self-indulgence and materialism of the fabliaux were symptomatic of ideas that contributed to ( perhaps he should have said attitudes that flourished along with ) the growth of urbanism and a concurrent commercialization of the French countryside . |
| 30 | What I do n't wa , I know it 's handy sometimes you think , ah that covers a lot of things for me and you may have come across something yourself I 'll the there is a key , there should be a key to those things in my cupboard , those lifelines things not the same as cha , I 've got all sorts of ideas that you might pick out and say right we can use that as a lesson you might even just say well sod copyright I 'm gon na photocopy that and I 'll use it ! |