Example sentences of "had [art] [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that he had the faintest idea of the contents of the envelope he carried within the breast pocket of the jacket he declined to hand over to the stewardess . |
| 2 | He was always surprised that no one else had the faintest idea of what he was talking about . |
| 3 | They did not pray two rak'ahs before making love , or perform wudu after intercourse ( perhaps because neither of them had the faintest idea what wudu might be ) , and they were woefully deficient in the sacrifice and dowry departments . |
| 4 | At first Milan was ruled by the della Torre family ; Martino della Torre had the revolutionary idea that the city should be governed by the people , with taxes calculated on ability to pay . |
| 5 | He had the revolutionary idea that gravity was not just a force that operated in a fixed background of space-time . |
| 6 | But neither of his partners had the remotest idea of the existence of Levels Two and Three . |
| 7 | Although Mr Headroom was actually flesh and blood posing as the unreal thing , there are plenty of computer animation specialists who think he had the right idea . |
| 8 | Perhaps Robert Louis Stevenson had the right idea in his travels in the Cevennes . |
| 9 | But he drew the line at including gurls , because gurls were less than zero — J M Barrie had the right idea there . |
| 10 | PRINCESS Diana had the right idea sending back her Mercedes car . |
| 11 | It would be excessive , even in today 's permissive times , to return to Stalin 's methods , but Lazar Kaganovich , Moscow party boss in the 1930s had the right idea : ‘ when the manager walks into the enterprise , the ground should tremble ! ’ |
| 12 | This Dickens had the right idea after all , no matter who his anonymous friend might be . |
| 13 | ‘ He had the right idea about women , ’ Lucenzo said cynically . |
| 14 | We were concerned with the start-up and whether people had the right idea about business studies … |
| 15 | But I think the ingenuity of chemists and scientists and physicists and astronomers is such that , yes , we could do it — if we knew what we were looking for and had the right ideas . |
| 16 | Two years later , when MGM had the not-so-bright idea of remaking Goodbye Mr Chips as a musical , and UA tried to bring back the British war film with The Battle of Britain ( 1970 ) , the bill for each picture was something like $12 million . |
| 17 | Mainly because the stewards had become involved in the incentive er scheme working er and had the best idea you know of how to set times and tooling and everything else . |
| 18 | Four years ago local group member Norma Johnston ( now Head of Communications at the British Section ) had the great idea of organising a Film Week in Bristol to ‘ raise the awareness of human rights issues and highlight the work of Amnesty International ’ . |
| 19 | I had the brilliant idea that both Jamila and Jeeta should run away together , but Jeeta would never leave Anwar : Indian wives were n't like that . |
| 20 | Shortly after this stop , we passed Mr Adrian Boyd who lives quite near Hampton Court Palace , and who had the brilliant idea of staging a Flower Show in the park behind the Palace , which makes the most wonderful setting with natural waterways . |
| 21 | It was Pybus who had the brilliant idea of putting the thing out to tender and , despite my warnings , thought that no one could match the school 's price of 158 banana chews , free strawberry milkshakes once a week during the season and a promise from Mike Channon that he would play the Virgin Mary in the school nativity play . |
| 22 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 23 | Piper suddenly had the crazy idea that all the Doctor 's masks had been stripped away , leaving him with no more armour than the truth . |
| 24 | Meanwhile Morrissey made a brief appearance between the pages of No. 1 when the magazine had the interesting idea of flying Morrissey to Liverpool for a tape recorded chat with Echo & The Bunnymen 's outspoken Ian McCullouch . |
| 25 | He had the entertaining idea of running a competition , and he advertised for experts in games theory to submit strategies . |
| 26 | ‘ And obviously she had the wrong idea about what was expected of her ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Guaranteed Not To Split ’ , it said on it — which was just as well as much later I had the initial idea for ‘ Anarchy ’ while messing around on it . |
| 28 | After Legrand , the aircraft lost Couvelaire , the man who had the original idea . |
| 29 | On that first morning after transmission , none of the production team had the slightest idea of the impact the film — well , Hannah Hauxwell — had made on the general public . |
| 30 | You 're the first woman I 've ever met who had the slightest idea what travelling light means . |