Example sentences of "to have [art] [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Donaldson , in last month 's letters page , certainly seems to have the right idea . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman does not seem to have the first idea of what happens at Social Affairs Councils . |
| 3 | Marcus had said she was too introverted and frigid to have the vaguest idea how to find , let alone enjoy , the pleasures of life . |
| 4 | So here is mystery with a vengeance — we seem to have the attractive idea that Christ died for you and me , he went to the utmost limit for us , he gave everything away , and in some mysterious and tantalizing fashion he took my sin and yours upon himself , but we can not say to whom the price was paid ! |
| 5 | For our purposes , it will be enough to have a general idea of what distinguishes the Caribbean Creoles from the varieties of British English to which second-generation Caribbeans in London have been exposed . |
| 6 | He had planned the whole scheme and ought to have a better idea than me of what was going to happen . |
| 7 | ‘ They seem to have a better idea of the indie ethic in America , ’ muses Jim . |
| 8 | My only memory of those auditions was that everyone seemed to have a better idea of why they were perfect for each particular part than I did ! |
| 9 | Erm I 've had one comment from the people in Nottingham , that er we need to have a clearer idea of exactly what we want from people , and then let them go away and and read more detailed bumf in more detail . |
| 10 | This teacher obviously felt that self-assessment helped her children to have a clearer idea of what marks and grades referred to . |
| 11 | It is not enough to have a new idea ; the discoverer has to know the field within which the new idea is to be applied , so that he can evaluate its significance , and test the worth of the new insight . |
| 12 | There thus seems to be a need for those planning services to have a clear idea as to the role of any planned day care . |
| 13 | The Home Office appears to have no clear idea why two million voters are not registered , nor why 11 million people did not vote in 1987 . |
| 14 | There were two problems back then : first , collectors tend to have an inflated idea of the value of their work , and second , since they feared the IRS ( Inland Revenue Service ) would question any evaluation they gave , they overvalued everything , The IRS got to the point where , because of the abuses , it was prepared to recommend to Congress the abolition of the deduction for donations of works of art . |
| 15 | Since this second sufficient condition turns out to be of some importance , it might be useful to have an intuitive idea of what is involved . |