Example sentences of "idea [be] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The idea is that quarks come in three colors — red , green , and blue — ; but that any isolated bound state , such as a hadron , has to be colorless , either a combination of red , green , and blue like the proton , or a mixture of red and antired , green and antigreen , and blue and antiblue , like the pi meson .
2 The idea is that users with high storage demands should achieve continuous free disk space by enabling large files to be stored off-line while keeping them easily accessible .
3 One idea is that viruses can simply pass through the cell membrane , perhaps aided in some way by the receptor protein ( B 1 in Figure ) .
4 The idea is that managers derive utility from spending the company 's funds to an extent beyond that necessary for profit maximisation .
5 Erm , the idea is that letters are uniquely sep specified by different combinations of features , but certain letters would share more features than others So the idea is that you might consider that the letter X is made up of two features line going that way , whoops , yeah , and a line going that way , which when they 're viewed together make the letter X. The letter Y is made up of a line going that way and a line going that way .
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 OSI Network Management Forum has delivered its Omnipoint 1 reference model for builders of integrated management products : Omnipoint is a set of standards , specifications and technologies that were created by a broad coalition and it is referenced in the US government 's Network Management Profile , soon to be included in government procurement guidelines in the UK ; among the technologies lurking in there are CMIP/X.700 , SNMP , work from X/Open Co Ltd and the Object Management Group ; the specifications are due to be published formally in October , and the idea is that systems that conform to the Omnipoint specs will be able to interwork .
8 The true idea is that Italy is the cradle of European civilisation .
9 The idea is that OS/2 developers who write to the Tali-OS/2 combination will be able to convert them with the minimum of fuss .
10 The idea is that OS/2 developers who write to the Tali-OS/2 combination will be able to convert them with the minimum of fuss .
11 The idea is that properties of an object , such as the shape and colour of a thing , could , in principle , exist on their own ( ’ in time' — as opposed to in some more Platonic way ) apart from anything else , whereas good does not have the same possibility of existing as an independent object .
12 The idea is that Sheffield companies pay real money for the privilege of being squares on the game — for the obvious advertising benefits .
13 The idea is that species originate by the sudden events , whatever they may be , and they have new characteristics , which randomly related to the characteristics of their ancestral species .
14 The general idea is that members ( and any guests who are potential members ) should arrive between 6.45 and 7.00 p.m. and collect a glass of wine .
15 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 .
16 As you can see , so far six hundred organizations have registered with us and what we 've done is put them in a rather , rather flash booklet and the idea is that youngsters , their parents , teachers , youth leaders , scout leaders , anybody , gets hold of one of these booklets and in it , it tells them how to go sailing .
17 The idea is that people band together to buy property , then design and build a cluster of single-family homes .
18 ‘ The idea is that people come in for different services according to local need .
19 The idea is that people on the street could tell at a glance that I 'm a proctor , which of course only the more informed of them can .
20 The latter idea is that organisations have spare capacity that can be brought into play so as to enable the company to comply with the demands of one group without requiring a damaging transfer from another .
21 The Mountain View , California-based Unicode Consortium has merged its multi-lingual encoding standard with the recently approved ISO 10646 , developed by the International Standards Organisation : the idea is that computers all over the world should agree on which number stands for which character so they will be able to communicate other in any language .
22 One of the many major problems for this idea is that Broca 's aphasics usually show better performance with content than with function words even when the task is reading aloud single words : the patient given tie , and , the and ant to read aloud might well succeed with tie and ant but not with and or the .
23 ‘ 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 .
24 The idea is that Penang will provide the skills and its poorer neighbours will provide the labour , although Mr Koh is too polite to put it that bluntly .
25 And the idea is that points will be awarded th for which they will pay a , a licence fee .
26 The broad idea is that statements belong to languages and facts to the world .
27 One 's first idea is that facts are similar to , if not identical with , true propositions ( which would explain why there are no false facts ) .
28 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 .
29 But the broad idea is that events are governed by laws of nature which apply whenever similar events occur in similar conditions .
30 The idea was that particles like the proton and the neutron could be regarded as waves on a string .
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