Example sentences of "[verb] [art] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Educators , and others , who abhor the idea of a world filled with TV 's graduates are clearly out of step with the times . |
| 2 | So that sounds as if you favour the idea of selling off shares . |
| 3 | Why is it that some people find it so difficult to accommodate the idea that providing immediate relief to human suffering can go alongside campaigning for longer term solu-tions ? |
| 4 | Highlander provided an educational forum where those who were interested in pursuing the idea of a ‘ participatory research ’ project on land ownership could swap experiences and ideas and together hammer out the details of what was known , what was wanted and how to collect the facts . |
| 5 | According to Soviet commentaries the United States ' commitment to these bases underlay its warnings to the ASEAN countries against pursuing the idea of a nuclear-free zone in Southeast Asia . |
| 6 | The CNAA 's ideas were taking a different shape in 1975 , showing an unwillingness to go as far as delegating authority for the approval of courses , but pursuing the idea of ‘ internal validation ’ . |
| 7 | This seemed to kill the idea , and with no obvious practical use it faded from mainstream interest . |
| 8 | Greenaway has said he hates the idea of a shot in a film being only a preposition , linking what went before and after — but what writer would think of despising a part of speech for performing its indispensible task ? |
| 9 | Captain Kirk ( William Shatner ) hates the idea — he ca n't forgive his old enemies for the death of his son . |
| 10 | But Eubank also has a huge ego to feed , and Davies revealed : ‘ I know he 's always going on about money , but the truth is his main drive is pride — he hates the idea of losing . |
| 11 | She would like an audience to identify with something within themselves , but she hates the idea of King being canonised . |
| 12 | They espouse the idea of dementia teams . |
| 13 | I despise the idea and practice of blood sports , but this violent reaction threw up a profile of wildly inconsistent attitudes which puzzles me ; how is it that fox hunting is legal and fishing is the most popular outdoor recreational activity in Britain , yet badger killing invokes a desire for public retribution — lynch mob fever , almost — over and above the punishment of the courts ? |
| 14 | It was funny how good Adam had been at naming things , the rooms in the house , the house itself even , or at naming the idea of it , the concept , Ecalpemos . |
| 15 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |
| 16 | Ten years ago , SAVE floated the idea of a new society , the Friends of Friendless Garden Buildings . |
| 17 | Mr Kohl himself has floated the idea of offering dual citizenship on a trial basis . |
| 18 | The Clinton administration had floated the idea of increased ‘ sin taxes ’ on beer , spirits and tobacco to help pay for its health-care reforms . |
| 19 | He has therefore floated the idea that the four nationals and the South Bank Centre could perhaps be directly funded by the OAL . |
| 20 | Fielding said that Lorne had even floated the idea that Gary and Doug should be brothers , as opposed to father and son . |
| 21 | While there is no motion on the issue for debate at next month 's General Assembly , some leading Presbyterian figures have floated the idea of creating a new position within the Church structure . |
| 22 | As early as 1955 , for example , he had floated the idea of a new " association " between Algeria and France . |
| 23 | ‘ To choose to do the work one wants , I suppose one will quite often have to renounce the idea of making a fortune . |
| 24 | Although I 'm approaching 50 , I 'm not yet old enough to renounce the idea of love . |
| 25 | The Shah appropriated the idea of reform to himself an launched what he called his " White Revolution " — white because it was meant to be bloodless . |
| 26 | Prison governor Peter Leonard agreed the idea could have come from the TV movie Murder , Smoke And Shadows , starring Peter Falk as the shabby sleuth Columbo . |
| 27 | Skocpol ( 1979 : 24–32 ) has strongly criticized the idea of the state as ‘ nothing but an arena in which conflicts over basic social and economic interests are fought out ’ ( 25 ) . |
| 28 | The Police say they back the idea . |
| 29 | Another such example is to be found in ‘ no bird-song , no , nor bough/breaking with honey buds , ’ which enforces the idea of nature being beneath the power of the train itself . |
| 30 | Yet if the lapidaries of Europe and India shared the idea of faceting the convex face of flat-bottomed stones , they had to do their work subject to different expectations . |