Example sentences of "can get [adj] idea " in BNC.

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1 Is there any way , then , that we can get any idea as to how old some of our boundaries might be ?
2 You 're expecting people to resent it so you hold back before they can get any ideas about hurting you . ’
3 One can get some idea about what it means to try to maintain safety by blindfolding even one eye and noting the several changed perspectives .
4 Our 1986-87 panel study has not been repeated , but we can get some idea of the impact of the press in 1991-92 by comparing Mori polls of newspaper readers ' voting intentions in 1991 with votes in 1992 .
5 We can get some idea of what is going on by thinking of a sheet of canvas stretched on a horizontal frame .
6 More detail of the delicate mission would have been enlightening but one can get some idea .
7 We can get some idea from certain experiments that have been done with rats .
8 There is a great need to study the context of such deserted or shrunken settlements , since it is only when a region is studied in its entirety that we can get some idea of the changes which have taken place in settlements and the settlement pattern in the area .
9 However , the reason that the contemporary attacks are different is that the shackling of trade unions was an integral part in Margaret Thatcher 's economic package and if the only reason for this legislation was because it was part of a failed economic strategy then that in itself should be enough , but the real effect of anti-trade union legislation should be examined in the context of a wider social and industrial parameter , and if we take just one Act , the Employment Act of nineteen eighty , we can get some idea of the effect of Tory employment legislation .
10 Would you please inform Jean Parmiter of any potential student teachers you may have so that we can get some idea of numbers and location .
11 Although we ca n't hear the ultrasound pulses of these bats directly , we can get some idea of what is going on by means of a translating machine or " bat-detector " .
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