Example sentences of "up [prep] the idea " in BNC.
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1 | Education Viewpoint : Who will stand up against the idea of student fees ? |
2 | Thanks to his hobby some splendid pictures of his son and daughter 's early life were preserved — on their tricycles , walking through the local park , playing with their cousins , skating and skiing , and some more imposing ones of them with the grown-ups — getting into the car while Kerry the chauffeur holds the door open ; looking very serious with the uncles and aunts , their mother appearing to be taken up with the idea of not being photographed with them ! |
3 | ‘ So it came up with the idea of an amnesty on illegal weapons . ’ |
4 | I feel that children should be brought up with the idea of doing the best they can — for themselves . ’ |
5 | So I did n't grow up with the idea that I had a poet in the family , by marriage of course . |
6 | As manager Scott Piering was overburdened with similar requests from fanzines , Morrissey came up with the idea of gathering a forum from six or seven of these fanzines . |
7 | Allow your children to see your own grief so that they grow up with the idea that it is a natural reaction to an unhappy situation . |
8 | For many , aspiration to higher things through promotion was tied up with the idea of a larger wage-packet . |
9 | But disappointed students , brought up with the idea that studying the subject of their choice was their legal right , appealed to the courts , who agreed with them , and so criteria for student selection became a matter for central government . |
10 | The five research nurses at Abingdon Hospital , near Oxford , independently came up with the idea that there was a need for a national representative body . |
11 | So it has come up with the idea of a tape ‘ loop ’ to delay the broadcast of ‘ live ’ debates for long enough for an engineer to hit a panic button until the offending words have passed . |
12 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
13 | Born in May 1964 , Bustin , ‘ grew up with the idea that I could n't be an artist , since , one , I was n't male , and two , I was n't mad ! ’ |
14 | Along with the bruises , I was left with the problem of what to do in the Grand Final , and eventually came up with the idea of a prop stool which would collapse at the touch of a button and jump up again on its own . |
15 | It was Alistair Bruce who came up with the idea . |
16 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
17 | I came up with the idea of having a sale . |
18 | As a way of avoiding crippling purchase tax , which only applied to completed goods , Mr Chapman came up with the idea of selling the car in kit form . |
19 | Determined not to let herself be beaten by such obstacles , Prue came up with the idea of a luncheon club for professional women in the Exeter area . |
20 | Cold fusion is the brainchild of Charles Frank , who first came up with the idea in 1947 . |
21 | Born in May 1964 , Bustin , ‘ grew up with the idea that I could n't be an artist , since , one , I was n't male , and two , I was n't mad ! ’ |
22 | A group of Dutch artists under the collective name of ‘ Cargo ’ recently came up with the idea of dropping 20,000 loaves of bread into the sea as an act of sacrifice ‘ from the nation ’ . |
23 | Local floatplane pilot Hugh Carlson , almost as a joke , came up with the idea of ‘ Why do n't we put one up on a pole ? ’ |
24 | In most minds that entertain thoughts on either subject , the SSC is mixed up with the idea of the Higgs particle . |
25 | One can speculate that if Mezey had not come up with the idea of dispensing with two hospitals , and of the remaining four being given a quadrant of the region to serve each , the idea that it was an RHA rather than local management responsibility to deal with the issue , might never have stuck in the minds of senior regional officers . |
26 | Like its fragmented nature , housework 's ‘ never-endingness ’ is so much bound up with the idea of housework that the two are not conceived apart . |
27 | One good piece of news — alas not definite , since it is still subject to possible changes — is that at the moment the European legislation process has come up with the idea that the national definitions of ‘ antique ’ for weapons will apply when the European harmonisation takes place . |
28 | They are not perhaps the kind of remarks to be found in Christmas crackers , but they suggest that his humour was bound up with the idea of self-parody : he is mocking the pontifical manner which others associated with him . |
29 | After initial experiments with raised beds , ramps and customised tools some lateral thinkers from both groups came up with the idea of a wheelchair with a seat which could be lowered to the plants at ground level . |
30 | A major difficulty , here , is that the idea of communication is tied up with the idea of intention , and intention is a very tricky concept in literary criticism . |