Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her mother died Constance had turned slightly vegetarian and announced that she would never have any children since her mum had had ten and put her off the whole idea , and she gave away the chickens . |
| 2 | Shaking off the very idea of a German father was a wriggle of the shoulders , the thin cotton sleeves pushed down . |
| 3 | One of them Derek Clark is the man who dreamt up the new idea … took the plunge into the sailing revolution |
| 4 | This would , he thought , assist in deterrence because ‘ in crude , vulgar minds , the seductive picture of a particularly advantageous crime should immediately call up the associated idea of punishment ’ ( Beccaria , 1963 : 57 ) . |
| 5 | By the law of association , the material image calls up the mental idea and vice versa . |
| 6 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 7 | Bonar Law promptly gave up the whole idea , with obvious relief , as he told Balfour : |
| 8 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 9 | Right at the beginning of his book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , in the first chapter called ‘ Renaissance : self-definition or self-deception ’ , he takes up the old idea that the Renaissance was the expression of a specific ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 10 | Er the point I was making to her was erm in her paper which er was excellent by the way , I forgot to say and I think you put it all very clearly and very nicely , y you , you very nicely set out the basic idea that the consequence and that in principle a male need contribute nothing more than his penis . |
| 11 | There is an increasing number of local authorities , universities and schools wishing to try out the artist-in-residence idea . |