Example sentences of "[verb] up the idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 2 | Somehow I had picked up the idea that putting the patient in a tub of hot water sometimes had the desired effect . |
| 3 | Norma had picked up the idea from a little woman in Brixton . |
| 4 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 5 | A better solution may well be to pick up the idea of rotating the audit partner every five to 10 years . |
| 6 | If the subject is a " classical " one — one that changes little and is of long standing — you may find old editions of early textbooks on the library shelves but , if the subject is a developing one , you have n't a hope of borrowing the right texts , because they are all out on loan : give up the idea . |
| 7 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 8 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 9 | We were soon building up the idea of productivity … |
| 10 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 11 | The machinery they use , their cars , their clothes , the tourists they encounter , the music they hear , all summon up the idea of a new , modern , ‘ front ’ region : one which can only be fully appreciated by actually moving and becoming part of it . |
| 12 | In due course , however , the Collector had to give up the idea of shovelling under these conditions . |
| 13 | ‘ Had it not gone , I was about to give up the idea of being a producer in my own right . ’ |
| 14 | They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe . |
| 15 | Rashid and Shahid cooked up the idea while serving customers at the Sitar in Northgate , Darlington . |
| 16 | Another attempt to save the inductivist programme involves giving up the idea of ascribing probabilities to scientific laws and theories . |
| 17 | Stirling then dreamed up the idea of a true-to-life rehearsal against shipping at Port Suez , without bothering to inform the Navy . |
| 18 | Edwina Currie and Simon Hughes not only have the same face , voice and mannerisms — they are in fact the same person : creations of a con- and drag-artist who dreamed up the idea to draw two salaries , and now wishes he had n't . |
| 19 | Radio One DJ Jakki Brambles had the bright idea of getting Jason to record As Time Goes By after she and producer Jonathan Ruffle dreamed up the idea of broadcasting her show from Morocco to mark the film 's 50th anniversary . |
| 20 | A beekeeper himself with 10 hives in the manse garden it was the Dean who dreamed up the idea of a honey service four years ago . |
| 21 | Derek Christoffer , from Maghull Chapel , dreamed up the idea and another member , Paulette Franklin , provided the words and music for the presentation about the Easter Story through the eyes of Mary , Jesus and St Peter . |
| 22 | Adverts continued for holiday trips to France , Holland and Belgium , but no one knows who or how many people took up the idea . |
| 23 | Sir Roy Griffiths took up the idea , under a different name , in 1988 in specifying that ‘ no person should be discharged without a clear package of care devised and without being the responsibility of a named care worker . ’ |
| 24 | After the Second World War , American scientists , Herbert Simon and Alan Newell , took up the idea that the computer could embody intelligence . |
| 25 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 26 | In 1963 Vine and Matthews , two Cambridge geophysicists , took up the idea of sea-floor spreading and linked it with data on the palaeomagnetic anomalies observed along mid-oceanic ridges ( Fig. 2.12 ) . |
| 27 | It also thought up the idea of converting public debt into more or less permanent debt at fixed interest , the system known as funding . |
| 28 | Who thought up the idea that the payment mechanism — the Letter of Credit — should be independent from the underlying sales contract ? |
| 29 | Brian George from Henley in Oxfordshire was the man who thought up the idea of the fraud . |
| 30 | From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations . |