Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] some idea " in BNC.

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1 There 's other associates who like to know beforehand roughly how much they can provide for people by way of life cover and living assurance , so that they can give the people some idea , or maybe want to sit in front of them and use the rate book to give them some idea .
2 that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas .
3 I 'm going to give you some idea of what it 's like to be fucked . ’
4 To give you some idea of how important investment performance is , Charles Walker of London & Capital Group , which specialises in school fees planning , did the following calculations .
5 He may be able to give you some idea what the road is like further on . ’
6 In order to give you some idea of the boundaries of the propositions these are numbered in the extract given above .
7 To give you some idea of its relative size , Stoddard Templeton trades with approximately 3,000 outlets .
8 To give you some idea of the scope of the problem and how multi-faceted it is ; Kermit Weeks , his staff and volunteers are finding and sorting the aircraft pieces , drying out books , covering aircraft and items of every other sort with plastic to protect them from the weather and they are also spraying the collection of spare aircraft parts which filled a 50,000sq ft building .
9 To give you some idea of difference between the number of stories News and Current Affairs on Radio 4 can offer now , and say , what your papers carry : we had a look at one 24 hour period at the beginning of the month .
10 Now just to give you some figures I mean same tariff that 's the world price supplied the rest of the world , in fact the tariff on it show them that the operation of a a tariff can affect erm world prices and just to give you some idea erm ah , can we just you know when we were talking about the net economic costs well they 're within the European Community , those costs .
11 Yes , but you see this is just to give you some idea of his mentality .
12 It does give them the opportunity to provide the facilities , and on top of that on top of classification we now have grading , where every aspect of that hotel 's operation is examined and inspected and they are giving erm the classification as well as the grading , which could be highly commended or commended , and to give you some idea , out of the hotels in this region , you know , very , very few so far have reached the highly commended accolade , and those that do are well worth it , you know .
13 Here are a few of my own concoctions to give you some ideas :
14 You do n't have to make a firm commitment but obviously we like you to give us some idea of your availability .
15 They might be able to give us some ideas on the weapon . ’
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