Example sentences of "idea be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this drug makes you very dry , also makes you drowsy , the idea being that you 're basically not going to worry about what 's happening to you . |
| 2 | The idea being that if you wanted to move the cloth which we will be doing for the banquet , you just lift it straight off there , hammer some more tenterhooks in somewhere else and put it on there as well . |
| 3 | And so far as the local issue was concerned , of course it 's the issue of tertiary education and erm this was erm a question of erm the particular Governors and parents who wanted to opt out erm doing what the Iraquis are doing with their aeroplanes and they were basically trying to fly Banbury School to a neutral country ; the idea being that erm as soon as the procedure for opting out started the Local Education Authority would not be able to use any of erm Banbury School 's land or premises in part of its plans for tertiary education in Banbury , so it was really an attempt to neutralize Banbury School . |
| 4 | The basic idea is that a few parameters are turned into a smooth curve by a standardised computation . |
| 5 | The true idea is that Italy is the cradle of European civilisation . |
| 6 | One idea is that SHV wants to sell its Calor stake to Burmah and , as part of the deal , take a 15 per cent interest in Burmah . |
| 7 | The idea is that the person turns homosexual as a way of avoiding competition , conflict , or tension with a significant other . |
| 8 | ‘ The idea is that anglers should be far more aware of the resource they are using and it should be the job of the IFM to teach them more about the fish , ’ said IFM official Robin Templeton . |
| 9 | The idea is that while undersized fish will still be returned , their capture will earn a consolation point for the captor . |
| 10 | This was because , throughout the work of the founders of Marxism , a central idea is that everything in capitalism is linked to the capitalist relations of production , and that therefore the family under capitalism is a capitalist phenomenon . |
| 11 | The idea is that Sheffield companies pay real money for the privilege of being squares on the game — for the obvious advertising benefits . |
| 12 | The idea is that , if you pick out the best bits from the past , combine them , mix and match them , dust them down and restore them fondly , then the result will be something better . |
| 13 | The idea is that it could supervise an Iraqi withdrawal or police the Kuwait-Iraq border if Saddam Hussein ordered a pull-out . |
| 14 | One idea is that before or at the next French-British summit in late spring , the foreign and defence ministers on both sides will meet to review progress . |
| 15 | The idea is that this aircraft could fill the gap in the navy 's procurement schedule caused by the recent cancellation of the A-12 stealth machine that the navy was developing . |
| 16 | The idea is that people band together to buy property , then design and build a cluster of single-family homes . |
| 17 | The idea is that recruits from the towns will weed the crops . |
| 18 | The idea is that only rich people who have saved more than 1,000 roubles in high-denomination notes will be hurt . |
| 19 | The underlying idea is that citizens are expected to keep control over their behaviour , but that in circumstances where even a person of normal self-control might be provoked , the offence may be reduced from murder to manslaughter . |
| 20 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 21 | It makes me mad because the idea is that no guy would fancy a fat woman , that fat women are just a joke . |
| 22 | So the idea is that you have to pretend not to have periods , deny their existence . |
| 23 | The idea is that if some action , X , is followed by a stimulus , for example food , which is ‘ reinforcing ’ , then the animal is more likely to do X in the future . |
| 24 | ‘ The basic idea is that you jump towards them , scoop up their legs and take them down hard , ’ she explained . |
| 25 | The idea is that the shadow cast under the body is offset by the lighter underparts , so the body appears flat and merges into the background . |
| 26 | The beauty of the idea is that it need not be exclusive to succeed . |
| 27 | One leading idea is that gases such as hydrogen cyanide , methane , and ammonia dissolved in pools ( as they surely would ) and that as these pools evaporated , the compounds became more concentrated , and finally reacted together to form more complex organic molecules . |
| 28 | Yet again , the idea is that once created the watch is self-sufficient and requires no further help from its divine craftsperson . |
| 29 | The idea is that they feed the other side with what appears to be genuine material so as to establish their credibility and then the other side asks them to do things for them on their own home ground . |
| 30 | The idea is that when all these quotas are added together , the researcher will be sure that the national profile on age , sex and employment status will have been faithfully reproduced . |