Example sentences of "the idea that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter Pamela Wadsworth discusses some of the ideas that primary children hold about natural events and processes and how these influence their learning in school . |
| 2 | Clearly there is some discrepancy between the facts about these crimes and the ideas that many people hold . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) The institutions of art — that is , the ideas that animate art criticism , the museums , and the art schools — can foster either auratic or nonauratic art . |
| 4 | Really , the ideas that some people had ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The idea that monetary policy can be used to fine-tune the real economy has long been exposed as a myth . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sadly , the idea that friendly trade rivalry could entirely replace warfare was not well founded , and wars sometimes broke out between the city states . |
| 10 | First , at its core is the idea that critical thinking is a particular kind of intellectual activity in its own right . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Certainly we may feel a resistance to the idea that mental events are in space . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The idea that one person was interchangeable with another suddenly appalled him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) The idea that all Hoorays are called Henry is misguided . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You , you get used to the idea that all squares must be positive , so a negative number ca n't have a square root . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ The idea that all people involved in espionage are rich is a myth . |
| 27 | The idea that all people are the children of God is not found in the Bible . |
| 28 | The idea that all parts of the psychobiological system are closely interwoven is relatively recent . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Our experience of electronic technology prepares us to accept the idea that unconscious machinery can behave as if it understands complex mathematical ideas . |