Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look also at the tops of the trees to establish a better idea of the wind strength , and perhaps its direction too . |
| 2 | ( The concept of invariance was definitely the " in " subject at the time and it was later to provide a central idea in the theory of relativity . ) |
| 3 | Enquiries at Enterprise Agencies suggest that many people wishing to set up businesses are doing so with redundancy money or for other reasons connected with the difficulty of finding employment and their first need is to find a suitable idea . |
| 4 | In order to obtain a first idea of how space–time behaves across the horizon , consider an instrumented space probe falling along a radial path into a black hole . |
| 5 | He was always happy to discuss a new idea , often ( with the aid of a suitable beverage ) late into the night . |
| 6 | These utterances , emerging from longer periods of silent thought , were often obscure , but Ludens had begun to feel that , not yet perhaps but soon , he would be able to frame a clearer idea of what Marcus was all the time thinking . |
| 7 | I decided to put sections of the lake and river systems in the background , allowing an impression of the vegetation on the banks and in the distance to give a general idea of which part of a river or what type of lake was shown . |
| 8 | To give a rough idea of the price , a Style I dreadnought retails at £1,150 , and a Style II dreadnought at £1,695 . |
| 9 | And to give a rough idea of where the group makes its money , she cited breakdown of turnover by geographic area . |
| 10 | Although we could n't speak the language , there were enough ‘ … issimos ’ attached to the adjectives to give a good idea of what the locals thought of the route , and the frequent appearance of numbers like VIII , VII+ , A4 and A3 on the topo seemed more in keeping with our previous experience than the more modest gradings given by Ron James . |
| 11 | Various methods of locating sites have therefore been developed which attempt to give a better idea of a site 's layout . |
| 12 | I think that they are likely to give a better idea of what the finished advertisement will look like and can do a better job of communicating the necessary commitment to their way of presenting the product than can the account executive . |
| 13 | Again , a graphic character is substituted for each word to give a better idea of sentence complexity . |
| 14 | This has been done in the case of a number of last ( Ipswichian ) interglacial deposits in Britain to give a clearer idea of sea level at that period and the amount of East Anglian downwarping since ( Sparks and West , 1971 ) . |
| 15 | No one from either DEC or the museum could seem to give a clear idea of how complete the prototypes will be at the end of the research contract in April 1995 . |
| 16 | This is intended to give a clear idea of what the module is about . |
| 17 | Of the early basilicas , built in the second-fourth centuries A.D. none exists entirely unaltered , but sufficient survives or has been carefully rebuilt to the original pattern to give a clear idea of what such churches were like . |
| 18 | Simultaneously with clinical observations such as these , academic psychologists were also beginning to incorporate a similar idea into their models of normal cognitive functioning and most contemporary theories of human information processing contain the notion of a mechanism that screens and selects the products of consciousness ; necessarily so , since organised thought would be impossible without some device that allows the mind to choose from among the many stimuli — both internal and external — with which it is constantly bombarded . |
| 19 | And then Otto went indoors to the piano and played a few bars of Debussy to illustrate a musical idea . |
| 20 | But then when Narouz had himself raised it and indicated that he had changed his mind , it had suddenly come to seem a good idea . |
| 21 | His chief failing was a habit of cracking heavy pedantic jokes ; he was unable to let a good idea drop , and remarked several times during the course of the film that the heroine looked like she ought to be playing the horse . |
| 22 | It is harder than you think to actually stir yourself and make the effort to put a good idea into practice . |
| 23 | The original marathon was run on foot but the Greeks were never ones to waste a good idea , especially in sport . |
| 24 | Never one to waste a good idea , Old FF proudly presents : |
| 25 | For this reason , we have to keep a clear idea in our heads of the relationships between the variables in the whole causal process . |
| 26 | The important thing is being able to recognise a good idea . |
| 27 | For our purposes , it will be enough to have a general idea of what distinguishes the Caribbean Creoles from the varieties of British English to which second-generation Caribbeans in London have been exposed . |
| 28 | He had planned the whole scheme and ought to have a better idea than me of what was going to happen . |
| 29 | ‘ They seem to have a better idea of the indie ethic in America , ’ muses Jim . |
| 30 | My only memory of those auditions was that everyone seemed to have a better idea of why they were perfect for each particular part than I did ! |