Example sentences of "to the idea of " in BNC.

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1 Such people are radically opposed to the idea of sociologists conducting research on the police and long for a return to a ‘ golden age ’ when the proverbial veil of secrecy surrounded police work .
2 Anything other than an uncritical acceptance is a direct challenge to the idea of the rule of law which has sustained the police since their inception and which argues that the replication of a known system of order is the best means of containing those who need to be controlled .
3 If young people get used to the idea of the pub being a centre of the community , a place for sensible conversation and for sensible drinking , they are less likely to abuse the pub and its facilities when they become young adults .
4 Although the author pays lip-service to the idea of climbing as a form of meditation and the reward lying in the process rather than the achievement , the main thrust seems to lie in the opposite direction , in the acquisition of things .
5 In so far as that essay gives some warrant to the idea of free-for-all hermeneutics , then , concedes Norris , ‘ ‘ Structure , Sign and Play' ’ is a text which , at least in its closing paragraphs , falls below the highest standards of Derridean argumentative rigour . ’
6 Older academics , of whatever persuasion , were hostile to the idea of overt professionalism in literary study .
7 If we ask what it was about this society which made Pound and also Lewis affront it more or less deliberately , to ensure that its doors were closed to them , I think only one answer is possible : it was ineradicably vowed to the idea of the artist as the amateur .
8 Educational dogmatists who insist that middle-class values ( and hence , speech ) must not be foisted on working-class children ; a society which has never had any real commitment to the idea of education as a key to social mobility ; guilt-ridden liberal sentimentality about working-class cultural identity .
9 One child will respond to the idea of not hurting mummy .
10 He denied that any hardliners would be expelled , expressing the hope that ‘ they will decide to join a party which still clings to the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat ’ .
11 Many estate agents were whistling to keep up their confidence this week , claiming that people were already used to the idea of higher mortgage rates and that the latest increase would make little difference .
12 And he was opposed to the idea of Christian unity which dominated most of the Protestant delegates from the United States — to create a world federation of different Protestant denominations .
13 More exactly , it is seen to mark a point in a process of transition from the idea of self as metaphysically constituted to the idea of self as an individuated , autonomous essence ; self-consciousness rather than divine or natural law becomes constitutive of subjective identity .
14 Being a lazy lad , much given to the idea of rising late when given half a chance , he had delayed his arrival in the world until 1 January .
15 The advance of this critical period , however , can not easily be linked to the idea of a body clock which tends to run fast and so produce daily rhythms which are timed too early because , when daily rhythms have been investigated in these patients , it appears that daily rhythms are irregular , rather than altered in a particular direction .
16 This leads to the idea of auditory icons , which indicate the nature of objects inside the computer , by alluding to some object in the real world .
17 Mrs Thatcher remains totally opposed to the idea of a ‘ third zero , ’ the elimination of short- range nuclear weapons , and believes the Soviet Union has now rallied to her view .
18 The matter was dropped when the US objected to the idea of a joint declaration and , pleased by the generally positive tone of Mr Bush 's presentation , the Soviet team did not return to it .
19 Mrs Thatcher told the Soviet minister yesterday that Britain is not opposed to the idea of a pan-European summit , but the participants must agree on how it will fit into the building of the ‘ new European architecture . ’
20 Suppose , though , that Western countries agreed to the idea of users ' fees based on notional valuations of the atmosphere and other resources .
21 Just as Hobbes rejects Descartes 's view of sense-perception as having to do with an immaterial mind , so his moral philosophy is purely materialistic , and appeals only to the idea of matter in motion .
22 This appeal to the idea of analysing complex mental thoughts into constituent simples was made earlier by Gassendi , and also carried on by philosophers in later centuries .
23 They 're used to the idea of dying , you see . ’
24 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 .
25 The Proverbs of the Old Testament return over and over again to the theme that men should beware women ; the Jewish Talmud says that if you teach the Laws to a woman , you teach her lasciviousness ; the Hindu sage Manu teaches that if women go unrestrained , the result is anarchy ; and the oft-quoted Church Fathers and medieval theologians appear to respond to the idea of the Female with fear and disgust .
26 They also responded to the idea of Britain asserting a moral lead in the world after the soul-scarring debacle of Suez .
27 A loss would give momentum to the idea of dumping him at the party convention in July .
28 MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election .
29 Therapists used separating Cabbage Patch Dolls , joined by Velcro , to accustom the twins to the idea of being parted .
30 Many young people are now attracted to the idea of producing a large part of their own food .
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