Example sentences of "idea of a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Dr Runcie 's ideas of a limited primacy — recognising the Pope as a central figure in the Christian Church , who would exercise ‘ a primacy for the sake of unity and mission ’ — have been rejected as insufficient by the Pope . |
| 2 | He had not yet finally committed himself to subordinating all his other interests to tragedy , but was still toying with ideas of a wider scope . |
| 3 | Much of this new energy is imported : Holy Trinity follows the ideas of a Californian preacher called John Wimber , a man with no formal theological training who leads a body called the Renewal Movement . |
| 4 | to exchange ideas of a wide number of interests before a decision affecting the organisation is taken ; |
| 5 | In the New Year 's programme we are planning to share the experiences and ideas of a wide range of teachers to show their individual approaches to various aspects of the lesson . |
| 6 | And he did n't have to explain where he 'd been to a wife who has different ideas of a swinging time . |
| 7 | In Balinese dance , as Esslin ( 1976 , p.35 passim ) notes , all of Artaud 's ‘ ideas of a non-verbal , magical theatre of light , colour and costume seemed realized ’ . |
| 8 | The facility should not , however , be designed with the ideas of a particular individual in mind , although agreement on basic principles is obviously important . |
| 9 | In the 1760s the Physiocrats in France laid much of the ideological foundation for a new form of monarchy by popularizing ideas of a natural social order which could be easily discovered by the use of the human intelligence and which all unbiased men of goodwill must support . |
| 10 | But the ideas of a united Spain did not completely die with El Cid . |
| 11 | Ideas of a third force proved impossible to realise at least in the short term . |
| 12 | Those who could read may have taken advantage of some of the ideas of a local Elizabethan agricultural writer , Leonard Mascall of Plumpton , who wrote three textbooks on the arts of husbandry ; most farmers probably continued much as their forbears had done , producing a growing farming surplus more by accident than by conscious design . |
| 13 | Most writers have their own pet hobby-horses , and it can be dangerous to swallow the ideas of a single author hook , line , and sinker in the early stages . |
| 14 | For there really is something a little odd surrealist even in the idea of a folding-leaf Dining ( Bird ) Table , where the flaps are made to beat up and down like the wings of a bird . |
| 15 | Ms Foster put forward the idea of a similar investigation for plant and animal biotechnology because she was troubled by the unnecessary secrecy and seeming insensitivity of government departments to issues other than the narrow technical one of safety . |
| 16 | Once dynamic loading was incorporated as a working feature — allowing operating system components , such as drivers , X-Windows and file systems , to be configured independently — the idea of a modularised , desktop operating system fitting into 4Mb RAM became a possibility , and work began on SVR4.2 ( Destiny ) . |
| 17 | But the idea of a 20,000 seater stadium on 79 acres just outside Oxford , has angered local people . |
| 18 | He replied that the older Czechs were wary of the idea of a unified Germany but , for the young , West Germany was something of an ideal whereas they despised the DDR . |
| 19 | It challenges conventional psychology 's idea of a unified , stably gendered subject , by offering an analysis of how gendered subjects are produced in and through symbol systems . |
| 20 | Accordingly , in many fields , the conventional idea of a disinterested researcher having his or her own idiosyncratic interest and pursuing it wherever it might lead is a matter of history . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Although the publishers rejected the idea of a joint imprint , they do have to market the books jointly — but in such a way that the public and foreign publishers looking to pick up the foreign rights are not confused . |
| 23 | Khamis bin Hamid al-Kalbani , stressed that " the idea of a joint and independent GCC force " showed growing awareness that " Gulf security [ was ] the responsibility of the people of the Gulf " . |
| 24 | There was opposition to the idea of a joint parliament , but , as a compromise , a consultative interparliamentary body was set up . |
| 25 | But according to veteran peace campaigner Dr Eric Gallagher — now retired but still busy — the idea of a joint initiative on sectarianism dates back to Cardinal Conway 's day . |
| 26 | That is not to repudiate the idea of a serious normative function for the pastoral conventions in Leapor 's work , even with respect to ‘ Mopsus ’ . |
| 27 | After conflict and controversy she converted the committee to the idea of a district-nursing service as a corps of educated , trained women under the superintendence of a highly trained nurse . |
| 28 | The idea of a political kingdom was something as easily understood then as now : a territory ruled over by a king to whom its citizens are subject . |
| 29 | In the first place , a cabinet which represented no one current in particular and all sectors in general reflected and reinforced the idea of a political system in which distinct and different options had been eliminated and replaced by one single channel for political activity . |
| 30 | This idea of a political confederation of the Common Market states — the other dimension of his European initiative — had been in the air since the first meeting with Adenauer in 1958 . |