Example sentences of "to the idea " 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 | Leavis held firm to the idea that any kind of responsible discussion of literature was a critical act , so that the academic was inescapably engaged in criticism when lecturing or conducting a seminar . |
| 7 | Older academics , of whatever persuasion , were hostile to the idea of overt professionalism in literary study . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One child will respond to the idea of not hurting mummy . |
| 12 | I suppose it will be said that it is the height of romanticism to cling to the idea that universities can remain largely publicly funded and that students will not inevitably have to pay fees . |
| 13 | But some quite surprising right-wing converts to the idea seem to be popping out of the woodwork , attracted by Mr Lawson 's mistitled idea of ‘ competing currencies ’ . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thus he had an inherent antipathy to the idea that law , even Church law , canon law , could achieve anything that was good for the Church . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 20 | They clung so tenaciously to the idea that Rose felt she could n't stand in their way . |
| 21 | How far Marx and Engels were wedded to the idea is not clear and Engels did note that this sequence did not apply to the New World . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't get used to the idea that you 're growing up and can look after yourself . |
| 25 | That is to say he is not in the least drawn to the idea that Christ came in the flesh , and he finds the simplicity and literalism of what might be termed ‘ mere Christianity ’ frankly unacceptable . |
| 26 | Entering the competition was entirely Barbara 's idea and when the phone call came through to say they 'd won , Betty was quite shocked to discover that she , too , was going to London to have a makeover — but she soon came round to the idea ! |
| 27 | The Gaullist RPR , which has played the leading historical role in helping German postwar political recovery — while opposing any military revival — has given the most unequivocal welcome to the idea that Germany could again be one nation . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |