Example sentences of "to the idea of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Much was to be gained by involving the older farmers who , in general , were most resistant to the idea of training , and by working to extend training opportunities for wives . |
| 32 | the 1989 Children Act in the United kingdom has given legislative expression to the idea of shared care between social work agencies and parents and greater involvement of parents and children in decision making . |
| 33 | He said that we had proposed setting up , through the Western European Union , a European reaction force but that a number of our partners within the member states had a strong emotional attachment to the idea of a common European defence policy associated with the European Community . |
| 34 | Such imagery is comparable to the idea of light diffused throughout the world . |
| 35 | Linked to the idea of a personal God is the notion of God as an historical agent . |
| 36 | At various points in the early 1980s consideration was given by the Conservatives to the idea of introducing a ‘ voucher ’ system , designed to enable parents to exercise their choice by ‘ buying ’ a place at a particular school . |
| 37 | So we 're accustomed to the idea of what we 're doing . |
| 38 | The ideal aim is therefore to have all mentally handicapped people in ordinary houses which would be as far removed as possible from the concept of a ‘ home ’ in the worst sense of the word , and as near to the idea of a home in the best sense . |
| 39 | Even though these activities appear innocuous enough many teachers and administrators are suspicious or even hostile to the idea of marketing schools and the education service . |
| 40 | 17.43 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 4 should be introduced to the idea of the paragraph and encouraged to notice paragraph divisions in their reading . |
| 41 | The nationalism of national liberation thus includes , for the minority of the national group involved , a paradox : a loyalty to the idea of the national group which is most intense , emotional and committed , to the point of sacrificing one 's life , but which is also , on other criteria , quite shallow , apparently founded upon intellectually erroneous grounds . |
| 42 | Only the intelligentsia remained loyal to the idea of an independent Poland . |
| 43 | His decision was prompted by Mrs Thatcher 's vehemently expressed opposition to proposals for monetary union at a recent European Community summit in Rome and a strident populist performance in Parliament in which she displayed considerable hostility to the idea of European integration . |
| 44 | It was partly Szarkowski 's influence in the early 60s , which broadened collectors ' minds to the idea of buying photographs which were other than self-consciously fine art . |
| 45 | the RIBA opposed the idea of ending mandatory fees , although it was less resistant to the idea of an independent review body . |
| 46 | It does , however , link the law to the idea of harm and this is valuable in so far as it reduces the risk that boisterous behaviour , or other non-violent activity , can by itself amount to a breach of the peace . |
| 47 | It is regrettable that the court in this case did not display any principled commitment to the idea of freedom of movement or evinced any anxiety that such an ancient liberty was being seriously eroded . |
| 48 | As regards the philosophical concept of time , according to Needham , the Mohist school ( followers of the philosopher Mo Ti in the fifth century BC ) was inclined to temporal atomicity , although the hypothesis of material atomism never played any significant role in Chinese thought , which was wedded to the idea of the continuum . |
| 49 | In England , belief in the uniformity of time was greatly influenced by the Puritans in their strong opposition to the practices of the Roman Church , in particular to the idea of special days in the ecclesiastical calendar . |
| 50 | for these children the field is wide open to start all over again , and to introduce them to the idea of religion from scratch . |
| 51 | Experiment with different hand and feet positions and try to get used to the idea of leaning back on a straight front arm . |
| 52 | Death : fear of dying , inability to face up to the idea of death or bereavement . |
| 53 | Once you have become accustomed to the idea of conscious relaxation ( as in the previous exercise ) , you will eventually progress to the stage whereby the relaxation response is triggered by a simple action and/or silent prompt . |
| 54 | I am attracted to the idea of a printed Directory of Committees in a number of parts : |
| 55 | Conservative Cabinets used to present a strong contrast to Labour ones , as ‘ Labour governments are very much more used to the idea of people being mandated to do things . |
| 56 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 57 | Although it may take some practice to get used to the idea of changing the seemingly natural number scale , you will soon find that you automatically consider whether a transformation would aid analysis when you first look at a batch of data . |
| 58 | Churchill gave his approval to the idea of labour exchanges and , in a cabinet paper drafted by Beveridge , he circulated the details of the proposed system in January 1909 . |
| 59 | We are used to the idea of exercises for our muscular body and even breathing exercises but the following are for our major internal organs . |
| 60 | When faced with this problem many authors have turned to the idea of ‘ local political cultures ’ , and have sought to explain political variation by reference to the existence of such ‘ cultures ’ ( Butler and Stokes , 1974 ; Johnston , 1986a ) . |