Example sentences of "[adj] to the idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West German government was not averse to the idea of rearmament . |
| 2 | One problem of working in limited specialty areas is that existing clients might be averse to the idea of employing the same search firm as their rivals ; so Merton , approached by another major retailer with an assignment , cleared the matter with Tesco first . |
| 3 | The CPP , which was happy to go along with the election , seems averse to the idea of losing it . |
| 4 | I had no wish to marry anyone now that I could n't marry Nour , but I was particularly averse to the idea of marrying my mother . |
| 5 | First I make the mistake of falling in love with this man who probably wo n't remember what I look like the minute I leave this place , even though he 's not averse to the idea of making love to me while we 're under the same roof . |
| 6 | And she was n't averse to the idea . |
| 7 | It sometimes happens that a business is well disposed to the idea of partnership but it feels it has little to offer ; just to offer time may be very helpful and can bring dividends for both the partners . |
| 8 | This is similar to the idea used on SansAmp , as is the nine volt PP3 battery . |
| 9 | Similar to the idea of producing remedies from disease processes which can then be used to treat the effects of that disease is the idea of potentizing individual substances to counteract allergies and sensitivities to them . |
| 10 | It is suggested that the concept of non-natural user is now understood by the courts as being similar to the idea of unreasonable risk in negligence . |
| 11 | Heath 's initial reaction was favourable to the idea of publication , subject to the report 's reception by the Advisory Committee on Policy and the advice of ‘ our publicity pundits ’ . |
| 12 | Most heads of departments and senior staff were favourable to the idea of the appraisal , even if they had been put-off initially . |
| 13 | Aguirre was favourable to the idea , provided that Italy would guarantee the conditions once agreed . |
| 14 | Again , this is uncertain , although some recent opinion has been favourable to the idea . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | the RIBA opposed the idea of ending mandatory fees , although it was less resistant to the idea of an independent review body . |
| 17 | Consent is central to the idea of medical treatment and to the doctor–patient relationship . |
| 18 | Young found that the potential clients most amenable to the idea of headhunting were those who had a particularly confidential recruitment problem on their hands , situations when it was essential that no one either inside or outside the company knew what was going on ‘ ’ the real cloak and dagger stuff ’ . |
| 19 | In the end , too , it was the Japanese that turned out to be most amenable to the idea of throwing away and starting from scratch ; which is what Taos does . |
| 20 | In the end , too , it was the Japanese that turned out to be most amenable to the idea of throwing away and starting from scratch ; which is what Taos does . |
| 21 | Older academics , of whatever persuasion , were hostile to the idea of overt professionalism in literary study . |
| 22 | It is the heir of a nineteenth-century ideology that , though supposedly liberal and contemplative , is also élitist , anti-vocational , antimarket , and indeed downright hostile to the idea that higher education should prepare young people to take their places in a wealth-producing economy . |
| 23 | It was confused , slow to change — a factor amplified by the fact that there was no party conference between October 1937 and May 1939 — and deliberately hostile to the idea of working with other anti-fascist groups . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Maddock reports that most firms are hostile to the idea of moving people between civil and military sectors : ‘ There already exists a large culture gap and it is getting even wider . ’ |
| 26 | People have become ever more hostile to the idea of living near a rubbish dump . |
| 27 | The writings of Ada Nield Chew , a working-class feminist who , between 1894 and the First World War , wrote many newspaper articles on women 's issues and was hostile to the idea of family allowances , have recently been collected together in Ada Nield Chew : The Life and Writings of a Working Woman ( 1982 ) . |
| 28 | Current philosophy of science largely remains hostile to the idea that iron laws and irresistible forces are at work . |
| 29 | As some of his remarks in the Criterion commentaries made clear , he was not hostile to the idea of Empire , ‘ whatever the Daily Express may say ’ ; and if this should rouse the indignation of anti-imperialists , it should be realized that I am talking about a bygone era , since which the world-scene has been transformed , and the term colonialism is now employed usually in the service of invective . |
| 30 | They are emphatically against making divorce more difficult to obtain and unsympathetic to the idea that society should do more to protect marriage . |