Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] [verb] the idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that everybody understands the idea of having diarrhoea and it is not pleasant , but you do not die from it . |
| 2 | The feeling is that we had the idea , which was the crucial element , and anybody could manufacture the product , but that is not true . |
| 3 | ‘ The worst thing about programmes like Xuxa 's is that they force the idea down children 's throats that life is a bed of roses , ’ says Nilde Moreira Santos , a primary school teacher in the North-eastern city of Salvador . |
| 4 | Her first thought , she realised , was that she hated the idea of the police trampling all over this heaven on earth . |
| 5 | It was because he liked the idea of death , because he wanted to talk about it . |