Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequently Douglas has developed these ideas in a book which collects together much material in the urban environment from a physical geography point of view but perhaps also leads towards his view that ( Douglas , 1981 , p. 360 ) : |
| 2 | The Labour Party has adopted these ideas . |
| 3 | Designer Jasper Conran has had another idea . |
| 4 | The reader who has grasped these ideas has the root of the matter in him . |
| 5 | Mr Kozyrev has scrapped that idea . |
| 6 | Richard Dawkins has taken this idea further by suggesting that the sole purpose for human existence is to allow the further evolution of genes . |
| 7 | The researcher has to have some idea of what he or she is looking for , even though the outcome may be unpredictable . |
| 8 | In order for such a policy to be successful and efficient the government has to have some idea of the size of any changes in tax rates and so on required to stabilize the economy , and some idea of when precisely such changes are required . |
| 9 | Luxembourg , the conference chair , has ignored these ideas in its draft treaty . |
| 10 | Until now Mr Honecker has rejected any idea of change , but Kurt Hager , 77 , East Germany 's oldest and most authoritative Communist ideologue , said yesterday that the party 's immediate task was to work out ‘ a precise idea as to how to bring about a necessary renewal ’ . |
| 11 | The Chancellor has rejected any idea of an immediate cut in interest rates . |
| 12 | And she 'd got modern ideas , and all — about married women being slaves , and what not — though to my way of thinking it 's always a toss-up which is the slave . |
| 13 | Just when you thought you 'd got some idea of the size , a cloud would stream past and the perspective would wind back . |
| 14 | He had lied to Evelyn when he 'd denied any idea of what the ransackers were looking for . |
| 15 | Much better news awaits those who may well have dismissed all ideas of Caterham ownership with one thought of the insurance bill . |
| 16 | When Michael Marks first wheeled his Penny Bazaar barrow into Leeds Market in 1884 , he can have had little idea that his actions were to one day progress Marks and Spencer to become the nation 's leading retailer . |
| 17 | I think in order to support our our response to the Royal Commission , which is imminent , the County Council and the District Council must now have had firm ideas on what they intend to do with parishes . |
| 18 | ‘ A good husband would naturally not discuss such things with his wife , but you must have had some idea . |
| 19 | She must have had some idea what she was doing . ’ |
| 20 | Surely you must have had some idea that something was wrong ? |
| 21 | Her voice stayed steady , despite feeling sick with anger and humiliation ; ‘ — but I imagine the Cabinet Office must have had some idea as to whether this is going to touch on security within this country . ’ |
| 22 | I was hoping you may have had some ideas about that . ’ |
| 23 | Malcolm said OK , but even he ca n't have had any idea what Christopherson intended . |
| 24 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 25 | Faldo could n't have had any idea of the tropical storm brewing when he and Norman exchanged birdies at the first two holes . |
| 26 | It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic . |
| 27 | What excited them even more was that , surprisingly , no one seemed to have followed this idea up ( and indeed no one had , as B. Mamyrin confirmed in 1989 ) . |
| 28 | Then , being prevented from moving into other grazing areas by groups which had developed similar ideas of ownership , and realizing that there were limits to the carrying capacity of the land , they would sell off surplus cattle until they arrived at a perfect balance between the land and the stock residing upon it . |
| 29 | He looked as if he had heard better ideas . |
| 30 | By the late seventies a succession of writers , of whom Correlli Barnett and Martin Wiener were the best-known , had given this idea intellectual respectability . |