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

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1 His second point was to discredit the idea that environmental pollution may be caused by the release of formaldehyde , used during embalming , from the decomposing body after interment .
2 The idea that monetary policy can be used to fine-tune the real economy has long been exposed as a myth .
3 In the light of Government protestations that safety is of the highest order , the idea that that service should be privatised is brought into focus .
4 But organisation charts only give us the bare bones of the organisation 's structure and we should not be carried away with the idea that official descriptions tell us all .
5 Sadly , the idea that friendly trade rivalry could entirely replace warfare was not well founded , and wars sometimes broke out between the city states .
6 First , at its core is the idea that critical thinking is a particular kind of intellectual activity in its own right .
7 Boden , 1977 ) To proceed in terms of a kind of model of this family of views , or many of them , what we can call functionalism shares with causalism the idea that mental episodes are to be understood relationally , in terms of their relations to other things .
8 Certainly we may feel a resistance to the idea that mental events are in space .
9 The idea that mental events are physical , however , is not the idea , whether true or false , that mental events are in fact identical with the particular kind of physical events with which they have often been and are still identified , which is to say neural events .
10 There must exist the idea that new attitudes , new determinations , new approaches , new behaviours , fresh outlooks and new challenges are quite possible even in old age .
11 The idea that one person was interchangeable with another suddenly appalled him .
12 He was contemptuous of the idea that one person 's vote should count equally with any other 's : " It is said , that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand .
13 This definition of metre takes getting used to : in music the idea that one note can realise several beats is obvious — it 's the first thing anybody learns ; but the idea that in poetry one syllable may do so is far less familiar .
14 In order to accommodate this fact Freud did not abandon the idea that all dreams were wish-fulfilments , but hypothesized a mechanism , the dreamwork , whereby dreams were censored .
15 ( 3 ) The idea that all Hoorays are called Henry is misguided .
16 After three weeks at his new contract , Cole has not been home before 8.30 in the evening once , so the idea that all contract catering chefs work nine-to-five is a fallacy .
17 And , secondly , she points to the importance to Dicey of the idea that all cases were judged by the same body of people , following a single body of rules .
18 If the courts were to develop the idea that all errors of law are jurisdictional , defined the word law in a purely analytical way so that it embraced any , or almost any application of a statutory term and substituted judgment on the meaning of that term , then a prospective applicant would be clear that the courts would intervene using that standard .
19 You , you get used to the idea that all squares must be positive , so a negative number ca n't have a square root .
20 This is the idea that all words have meaning by being names of things referred to by them , and that learning the meaning of a word is a matter of finding out what thing it refers to , what thing bears the name in question .
21 The ‘ market egalitarianism ’ argument embodies the idea that all individuals in the market should be placed on an equal footing , in so far as that is possible .
22 The idea that all people involved in espionage are rich is a myth .
23 The idea that all people are the children of God is not found in the Bible .
24 The idea that all parts of the psychobiological system are closely interwoven is relatively recent .
25 There is no logical reason to reject the idea that sociological concerns ( with , for example , class , power and gender ) are not based on biological and deep-rooted psychological foundations .
26 Our experience of electronic technology prepares us to accept the idea that unconscious machinery can behave as if it understands complex mathematical ideas .
27 The effect of eradication of H pylori on basal gastrin and acid secretion is more consistent with the idea that circulating gastrin is responsible for driving basal acid secretion in patients with duodenal ulcer , because the fall in basal gastrin concentration on eradication was accompanied by a proportional fall in basal acid secretion .
28 The present results lend further support to the idea that alternative splicing is the major mechanism for generating MHC isoform diversity in smooth muscle cells .
29 Indeed , some pacifists even drew comfort from the idea that modern weapons had become so destructive that no one was likely to contemplate actually using them ; others were reassured by the apparent improvement in Anglo-German relations after the upheavals of the Balkan Wars of 1912 .
30 As Karl Barth expresses it , woman is to man as B is to A ; why should woman mind ? 17 The idea that western religion has itself been a cause of attitudes which have deeply harmed women obviously can not be given entrance by them .
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