Example sentences of "up the idea of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana Campbell , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , dreamt up the idea of a specially adapted dinghy sailing boat in the early seventies , and persuaded Roderick Macalpine-Downie to design it . |
| 2 | It also thought up the idea of converting public debt into more or less permanent debt at fixed interest , the system known as funding . |
| 3 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 4 | Stirling then dreamed up the idea of a true-to-life rehearsal against shipping at Port Suez , without bothering to inform the Navy . |
| 5 | I gave up the idea of tea , but was able to make a washer in the afternoon with rubber from an abandoned tyre . |
| 6 | It was the Scottish King Ewen III who dreamt up the idea of the right of the first night , around the year 875 . |
| 7 | A better solution may well be to pick up the idea of rotating the audit partner every five to 10 years . |
| 8 | We were soon building up the idea of productivity … |
| 9 | Radio One DJ Jakki Brambles had the bright idea of getting Jason to record As Time Goes By after she and producer Jonathan Ruffle dreamed up the idea of broadcasting her show from Morocco to mark the film 's 50th anniversary . |
| 10 | Some while later Colonel James Churchward picked up the idea of Mu . |
| 11 | Jubilant , most gave up the idea of protesting in the freezing temperatures again , but approximately 1,000 persisted with their plan . |
| 12 | The Plymouth merchants gave up the idea of founding a northern colony , though they were interested in the prospects for fishing and they traded with the Indians along the coastline . |
| 13 | We all agreed on Giacometti , because the ‘ Naso ’ sums up the idea of potential space as a work of art , and that is the basic assumption of ‘ Documenta IX ’ . |
| 14 | In due course , however , the Collector had to give up the idea of shovelling under these conditions . |
| 15 | Another attempt to save the inductivist programme involves giving up the idea of ascribing probabilities to scientific laws and theories . |
| 16 | Beth had long ago given up the idea of winning the old man over . |
| 17 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 18 | I do n't think Irina gave up the idea of finding me a suitable partner , until Bill died . |
| 19 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 20 | The machinery they use , their cars , their clothes , the tourists they encounter , the music they hear , all summon up the idea of a new , modern , ‘ front ’ region : one which can only be fully appreciated by actually moving and becoming part of it . |
| 21 | In 1963 Vine and Matthews , two Cambridge geophysicists , took up the idea of sea-floor spreading and linked it with data on the palaeomagnetic anomalies observed along mid-oceanic ridges ( Fig. 2.12 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Had it not gone , I was about to give up the idea of being a producer in my own right . ’ |
| 23 | From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations . |
| 24 | Brian George from Henley in Oxfordshire was the man who thought up the idea of the fraud . |
| 25 | A beekeeper himself with 10 hives in the manse garden it was the Dean who dreamed up the idea of a honey service four years ago . |
| 26 | They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe . |