Example sentences of "have a [adv] clear idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has a fairly clear idea of which symbol represents which sound . |
| 2 | Altogether , tutorials take place over a period of about twenty-four weeks in the last year of a course , and usually by the last twelve tutorials a student has a much clearer idea of what he or she is about . |
| 3 | If you get into the habit of always checking the prices of furniture you like in shops , sales or auction rooms , you will soon have a pretty clear idea of most values whether antique , second hand , reproduction or modern . |
| 4 | Jan Marsh and Trevor Loomis have found seven National Trust houses where we do have a very clear idea of how women lived and thought . |
| 5 | But they did have a very clear idea of how they wanted the house to look and resigned themselves to living with the mess while they tackled it room by room . |
| 6 | More damaging to the continuity of sessions were the frequent occasions when teachers interrupted themselves , either because they did not have a very clear idea of what they were trying to say , or because their organizational structure was so complicated that they were trying to do too many things at once . |
| 7 | WHEN President Clinton unveils his plans for the US economy in full today , Americans will already have a fairly clear idea of what faces them . |
| 8 | I was only gon na say we 're , we will probably have a much clearer idea by the time we get to the results . |
| 9 | Although the initiators had a reasonably clear idea of what they wished to achieve and of the means by which this might be pursued , the fine detail could only be thrashed out as the project proceeded . |
| 10 | The Allied forces had a reasonably clear idea of the dispositions of Baghdad 's forces , while Saddam 's intelligence was less complete . |
| 11 | No , I think that we had a fairly clear idea , certainly on the pension fund , we 've not obviously got accurate numbers , a clear idea of the broad er , shape of , of the problems and erm , that allowed us , without having to wait for very accurate figures , to draw the conclusions about the scale of the problem , the amount of investment we 'd like to , we need to make and thus erm , whether or not it was of interest to pursue . |
| 12 | But by the latter part of the 1970s he experienced an irresistible urge to return to the private sector and he had a very clear idea of how he would go about it . |
| 13 | Vivienne Westwood , current British Designer of the Year , had a very clear idea of what she was looking for : ‘ Something unorthodox that people have n't seen before . |
| 14 | But he had a very clear idea of the manner in which his Council should be conducted . |
| 15 | Carolyn Warrender , twenty-four when she joined ‘ Laura Ashley ’ , had a very clear idea of what was needed . |
| 16 | Even with minerals and lost objects we have a reasonably clear idea of what we are looking for and the dowser can be proved right or wrong . |
| 17 | These divergent states are often subjectively perceived as having distinctive characteristics that mark them out as discrete varieties : people can recognize regional varieties such as ‘ Birmingham ’ English , ‘ Yorkshire ’ English and so on , and they often have a fairly clear idea of how such varieties are distinguished from one another . |
| 18 | By now I have a fairly clear idea about the binding formula Anya used . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're finding that women have a very clear idea of what suits them , ’ she says . |
| 20 | Sutcliffe 's data show that these speakers have a very clear idea of what , for them , constitutes a basilectal utterance . |