Example sentences of "idea was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons for his having such innovative ideas was that he was almost untrained , some would say untrainable , and laughed ( extremely annoyingly at the time ) at his elders and betters and their obsessions with sketching and learning the orders . |
| 2 | Now the ideas was that if you presented the letters X or Y very quickly that people would tend to confuse them . |
| 3 | The idea was that I 'd go for a fortnight but when I got there she gave me the bum 's rush so I spent a couple of miserable days in France and then hared it back to England . |
| 4 | Our idea was that we should call ourselves The All Stars . |
| 5 | Bill 's idea was that they should play it as a ballad instead . |
| 6 | The idea was that the few men in the University who could read the original language of the Edda and the Sagas should group together with those who wished to learn , and read their way through the principal texts . |
| 7 | Higgs insisted on this so their wives would not be caught in curlers ; but the idea was that Charles should see the farms and the farmers as they really were , not spruced up and on parade . |
| 8 | The idea was that it should be directed by Jon Amiel , who directed Singing Detective and never got much credit for its success , but he did n't want to do it . |
| 9 | The idea was that through deconditioning , unblocking , a ventilation of the soul ( ‘ airing your problems ’ ) , it was possible to achieve some kind of frank and freeflowing exchange . |
| 10 | DMs original idea was that anyone could find something brilliant to create within the limits of their ( in ) competence . |
| 11 | The idea was that Davis would be the anchor man , the resident musician , and every week we would have one paid performer who would be highlighted as performer of the week , a tradition that was kept up throughout the history of the folk club and the Arts Lab . |
| 12 | The idea was that the private sector would build and finance a number of roads and the department would pay a rent for them on the basis of how much traffic used them . |
| 13 | There would need to be rebates for low-income families and for long-stay patients but the idea was that the working population would be required by law to obtain health insurance . |
| 14 | The idea was that I should be in the right state of mind for the concert I was about to conduct . |
| 15 | The idea was that their names be on an official list so that , in effect , they could be victimised , even not hired , as a result . |
| 16 | The idea was that when that was done , on a signal I was to open up with the Breda and shoot up the café . |
| 17 | The idea was that the number of people engaged in this activity would increase dramatically with every action , thereby demonstrating the depth of feeling against nuclear weapons . |
| 18 | One idea was that they roll downslope from the submarine volcanic vent like plastic bags full of water , before piling up on top of one another ; another was that they whizzed along the sea bed , supported by a cushion of collapsing steam bubbles ; while a third suggested that ‘ pillows ’ are n't separate entities at all , but long , worm-like tubes whose thickness varies along their length . |
| 19 | The idea was that this was a way of ironing out minor disputes , but the clause was worded widely enough to cover a dispute arising out of wrongful termination of the contract . |
| 20 | His idea was that if you come on the scene and there was a right old set-to , you wanted to be as fit as you can to get into the set-to . |
| 21 | Koestler 's central idea was that things fall naturally into treelike hierarchies of parts and wholes , systems and subsystems . |
| 22 | The idea was that the leading countries on the Evian Committee would join in promoting a public subscription of £20 million , of which £5 million was to be raised in London . |
| 23 | The idea was that PEPs would encourage individuals to invest in British industry , receive annual reports and be able to vote at the AGMs . |
| 24 | The idea was that each film should have a $3 million budget limitation , be in colour and not exceed one hundred and forty minutes , have a rating of G , PG or R , and star or co-star the actor or actress involved . |
| 25 | His idea was that this would make no difference to those who knew how they were going to vote anyway , but could sway the others ; the floating vote , I suppose . |
| 26 | ‘ The idea was that each publican would have a booklet of facts behind the bar which he could use to settle arguments , ’ says the current editor Peter Matthews . |
| 27 | His idea was that these have to be fused in some way in industrial societies otherwise such societies could not survive . |
| 28 | The original idea was that the gliders should be built to make one flight only . |
| 29 | The idea was that Aziz and Ali would organise the early stages and provide mules from Tagmout then , nearing the Tizi n'Test road , they would hand over to Mohammed , who had meantime brought his mules from Imlil . |
| 30 | What really attracted me to the whole idea was that June said : ‘ Personally I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread . ’ |