Example sentences of "you [adj] idea [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our menu list will give you some idea of how tasty and interesting a low-fat diet can be . |
| 2 | This is probably nowhere near as long as your list but it gives you some idea of how much detail is needed in recording items . |
| 3 | These examples should give you some idea of how to approach your own list of foods . |
| 4 | ‘ That should give you some idea of the beauties of County Galway , ’ she added . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the table opposite will give you some idea of what to expect : for example , a man aged 30 investing just £25 a month could look forward to a cheque for £63,400 on his 65th birthday — with another £19,400 for his family if he died at the age of 80 . |
| 6 | The list below will give you some idea of what you can do . |
| 7 | The following case study may give you some idea of what is involved . |
| 8 | But the company 's parent is the American Mark IV Audio group , whose brands include Electro-Voice and Gauss , so that should give you some idea of the league in which they really play . |
| 9 | Merely to stand in such a position will give you some idea of the strain such a position exerts on the groin and accounts for the number of injuries Wasim has incurred in that region . |
| 10 | One look at the festival guidebook will give you some idea of the sheer breadth and scope of the event . |
| 11 | This simply gives you , it 's only a two page handout , it gives you some idea of the sort of motivations from what people have written about them . |
| 12 | Erm but of course to provide erm electricity on a larger scale , you ca n't put these things too close together , you need about er a thousand of those to , for example , to replace say a power station like Didcot and er and a thousand of these windmills would o occupy about three hundred square miles , and this is what three hundred square miles looks like er it 's , it 's the major part of , of central L you would n't put them in central London of course but erm gives you some idea of the sort of area you 'd have to devote to wind farms if you were to use this particular type of er of energy . |
| 13 | There are more than 200,000 cubic millimetres of neocortex , and every cubic millimetre contains at least 50,000 neurons with 500 million synapses ; these figures may give you some idea of the complexity of the computer we have in our heads . |
| 14 | Let us give you some idea of just how important nutrition is . |
| 15 | I 'm going to give you some idea of what it 's like to be fucked . ’ |
| 16 | The process should also give you some idea of what your company spends on printing , or at least producing , documents — it will probably be around 8–10% of your turnover , assuming that your company is n't actually in the publishing business in the first place . |
| 17 | ‘ Does it give you some idea of the kind of man he was ? ’ |
| 18 | That would have given you some idea of the way I work . |
| 19 | To give you some idea of how important investment performance is , Charles Walker of London & Capital Group , which specialises in school fees planning , did the following calculations . |
| 20 | Two-thirds of it is about The Beatles , with the last twenty years condensed into a hundred pages , which should give you some idea of how interesting that portion of his life is . |
| 21 | In order to give you some idea of the boundaries of the propositions these are numbered in the extract given above . |
| 22 | I hope it gives you some idea of what happened . |
| 23 | But I can give you some idea of general trends in your life . |
| 24 | So it gives you some idea of what the salaries were like in those days . |
| 25 | No less than five of the seven members of this new Australian band contribute percussion , which should give you some idea of the general musical drift . |
| 26 | The enclosed copy of our annual report gives you some idea of the full scope of our work . |
| 27 | To give you some idea of its relative size , Stoddard Templeton trades with approximately 3,000 outlets . |
| 28 | Two-thirds of it is about The Beatles , with the last twenty years condensed into a hundred pages , which should give you some idea of how interesting that portion of his life is . |
| 29 | To give you some idea of the scope of the problem and how multi-faceted it is ; Kermit Weeks , his staff and volunteers are finding and sorting the aircraft pieces , drying out books , covering aircraft and items of every other sort with plastic to protect them from the weather and they are also spraying the collection of spare aircraft parts which filled a 50,000sq ft building . |
| 30 | To give you some idea of difference between the number of stories News and Current Affairs on Radio 4 can offer now , and say , what your papers carry : we had a look at one 24 hour period at the beginning of the month . |