Example sentences of "idea [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea that it is happening elsewhere prevalent in our lives . |
| 2 | If New Yorkers notice it at all , few have any idea that it is 1,500 years old , and many would be deeply shocked if they knew , reckoning that anything over 20 years old must be dirty and out of date . |
| 3 | Aided by the media , who have never failed to find an opportunity to slip in the idea that it is Saddam Hussein who wo n't negotiate , the US and its Allies have led their people into a terrifying war which will claim the lives of so many of their sons and daughters . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the single-copy fallacy , the idea that it is enough that there should be one copy of any book in existence , does have support even within the British Library itself . |
| 5 | Allow your children to see your own grief so that they grow up with the idea that it is a natural reaction to an unhappy situation . |
| 6 | This process abandons the old idea that it is necessary to start with a two-carbon feedstock to make the two-carbon acetic acid . |
| 7 | It is the more-educated people who most use complementary medicine , thus helping to dispel the idea that it is ‘ unscientific ’ and used only by the uncritical ; and about 10 per cent of clients going to complementary practitioners are referred by doctors or paramedics . |
| 8 | But again , schooled by the incorrect idea that it is the carbohydrate foods which are the most fattening , many people will very much underestimate the number of calories in the butter-based sauce on their slice of fish , which looks like such an innocent dish . |
| 9 | They are going to give the children the idea that it is all right to change the facts to suit your way of thinking . |
| 10 | Clearly , I am focusing on the idea that it is the residues of bad experiences that lurk as bad objects in our psyche that cause us so much trouble because they have to be avoided at all costs and so rarely get modified by experience . |
| 11 | And , secondly , as discussed earlier , a continuity view of psychosis rests very heavily on the idea that it is the type of nervous system they have in common that connects the normal to the abnormal . |
| 12 | I 'm positively not the person to advise anyone on cut-price marine systems or to encourage the idea that it is possible not to compromise such principles by going down market . |
| 13 | The moral authority of law gets a foothold in the idea that it is rational to give special consideration to views which result from a process of impartial , informed and capable reflection , and this not simply because this process helps us to know more precisely what will promote independently ascertained moral goals but also because it is liable to result in superior judgements about what goals we ought to pursue ( Campbell , 1971 ) . |
| 14 | Television programmes during the day time encouraging grooming and self-presentation at interviews also helped to reinforce the idea that it is the individual 's fault . |
| 15 | Braudel 's categories are based on the idea that it is possible to distinguish various historical ‘ times ’ . |
| 16 | But the idea that it is ‘ unfair ’ for those who backed the biggest party in a coalition to see its policy then diluted is bogus : in politics as in marriage , if you can not win outright , you must compromise . |
| 17 | Both the idea that it is desirable for adult children to live with parents , and the custom that it is most desirable for this arrangement to be with the husband 's rather than the wife 's parents , contrast with ideas commonly held in Britain about desirable relationships between parents and children in adult life . |
| 18 | The idea that it is entirely natural for mothers and daughters to be particularly supportive of each other recurs again and again in research studies . |
| 19 | Because of this , much of the empirical evidence on parent-child support betrays a sense of wariness and carefulness about offering and accepting such support , which is far removed from the idea that it is the most natural thing in the world for parents and children to support each other . |
| 20 | While this figure is likely to have a fair range of variation according to the amount of crime in the catchment area of the newspaper and the general interest of the newspaper in reporting sex crime , it still gives some idea that it is only a small minority of local cases that get featured nationally . |
| 21 | But the problem with the idea that it is possible to dismiss structuralism and poststructuralism with the charge that they neglect history is that this argument itself neglects history . |
| 22 | Equally flawed is the idea that it is possible to legitimate the power of corporate managers by structuring the internal division of power in the company so that the managers are prevented from deviating from the narrow path of profit-maximization . |
| 23 | A more refined version of the laissez-faire approach outlined above , and one which seems to command the attention of some economists and policy makers , is premised on the idea that it is unhelpful to consider all conflict of interest situations in the same way . |
| 24 | Further work on the transfer of CAD data between work units and independent sites has been based around the idea that it is necessary to transfer all stored entities . |
| 25 | The idea that it is normal to find a check in a piano action seems to be the reason for saying either that Stein used a check or that some part of his action functions as a check . |
| 26 | Acknowledging this interdependence allows us to make the courageous leap of ‘ letting in ’ the fetus , of rejecting the idea that it is simply a clump of cells , of taking it into our moral accounting and allowing it to make some claim on our attentions . |
| 27 | He dismisses the idea that it is a tax on knowledge and an anti-competitive tax which would leave television news unscathed . |