Example sentences of "have [adj] [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the more optimistic forecast to be made of the dutiful immature girl who has some mildly appreciative responses , knows her books and has paid careful attention to what she has been told to think , but who has few independent ideas and writes with neither firmness nor joy ; or of the mature and independent boy , who may not have studied his notes or perhaps his texts so thoroughly , but who has a sense of relevance , whose judgements are valid , who writes with assurance and betrays in his style … that he has made a genuine engagement with the literature he has encountered ? |
| 2 | ‘ Mandy , he already has this awful idea I 'm chasing him . |
| 3 | That way every day when he has some new idea , he can contribute to something different , ’ one Apple manager complained ( Cocks , 1983 : 26 ) . |
| 4 | With regard to women in canoeing , Lesley has some strong ideas on the subject that tend to contrast with the more feminist view . |
| 5 | ETA still has some odd ideas about what constitutes a compromise . |
| 6 | ‘ I must say , Philippe Bonard has some excellent ideas . |
| 7 | Even if one has good scientific ideas , it is never enough just to publish them : the world will never beat a pathway to the door of the scientific recluse ; and all that the Avogadro or the Mendel can hope for is posthumous fame . |
| 8 | Bob Eaton has many bright ideas for direction , but the show lacks a really winning song . |
| 9 | Unless , ’ he added with unpleasant irony , ‘ anyone has any other ideas for picking it out of the shit … ’ , |
| 10 | But it has never really shown that it has any new ideas about where it should end up . |
| 11 | But many of the plastics being used in the linings are relatively untried and nobody has any real idea how long they will last . |
| 12 | Janet has other exciting ideas for her theme cuisine — so keep an eye on the canteen notice board for forthcoming events . |
| 13 | Crayola 's 24-page Starting Points booklet has bright new ideas for experimenting with art materials , and we have 200 free for SHE readers . |
| 14 | They 've had some good ideas though . |
| 15 | Ventris died before he had had the time to turn his attentions to Linear A , about which he is reported to have had some initial ideas . |
| 16 | Fleischmann has had some excellent ideas including methods to measure the surface diffraction of X-rays and he has made a detailed study of electrolysis in solutions that do not conduct electricity . |
| 17 | Certainly we have and use some lesser idea of a set of conditions and events for an effect , including what we call the cause , but we do not have this ambitious idea . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you have some other idea ? |
| 19 | The birthday children will often have some good ideas as to the kind of decorations they would like . |
| 20 | The BMC does have some good ideas . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought you might have some good ideas for that as well , Lisa . |
| 22 | Obviously , the researcher will have some pre-defined ideas of what he or she is going to look at , but usually the experience of working with an organisation or group will suggest new possibilities , new questions to be asked and pursued . |
| 23 | Maybe we 'll have some brilliant ideas in the morning . " |
| 24 | It is obviously important that we should have some clear idea about the nature of the phenomenon as an aspect of language not just as a preliminary but as a prerequisite for determining how it should figure in pedagogy . |
| 25 | This comment depends upon having some rough idea what would count as racial discrimination . |
| 26 | One of the reasons for his having such innovative ideas was that he was almost untrained , some would say untrainable , and laughed ( extremely annoyingly at the time ) at his elders and betters and their obsessions with sketching and learning the orders . |
| 27 | Indeed , once I was congratulated by a local town councillor in Holyhead for having such sensible ideas , when all I had done was repeat , at irregular intervals , fragments of what had emerged from the councillor 's own monologue . |
| 28 | Do you have any new ideas for them , Christian ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Do you have any other ideas ? ’ |
| 30 | Do you have any other ideas ? |