Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of quangos fits in with the idea that the burden on ministers could be eased if government departments concentrated on the development of policy and ‘ hived off ’ large blocs of routine administration . |
| 2 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 3 | I think it 's more likely to happen on the third or fourth flight , once the bird has caught on to the idea of freedom , which is why it 's important to keep it reasonably hungry . |
| 4 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 5 | Tell her you know how she feels , but do n't give in to her demands , as she 'll soon latch on to the idea that throwing a tantrum gets her what she wants . |
| 6 | They never caught on to the idea of the ground going upwards-and-downwards . |
| 7 | There was one early proposal about archaeology which became a series called The Blood of the British , where they had come in with the idea of the series . |
| 8 | The chapter will therefore end by taking a look at recent and forthcoming developments in manufacturing to see how these fit in with the idea of generic strategies and their implications for accounting — i.e. not just now , but for the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | In most minds that entertain thoughts on either subject , the SSC is mixed up with the idea of the Higgs particle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | According to his brother in law , Serrano Suñer , Franco appointed José Luis Arrese as Minister Secretary-General of the Party in 1940 because Arrese had come up with the idea of " relieving the hunger problem with dolphin sandwiches " . |
| 16 | And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one . |
| 17 | I would just say that what we 've done , we looked at the hospital , we looked at the youth building and at the moment we 've come up with the idea of the s the back room , the second room across the corridor , erm where we actually store some of the T I C books and pamphlets . |
| 18 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | But the philosophers have not yet caught up with the idea . |
| 21 | Owen never repeated this claim in the pre-Darwinian era , but liberal theologians such as the Oxford mathematician and philosopher Baden Powell began to come around to the idea of ‘ designed evolution ’ during the 1850s . |
| 22 | MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election . |
| 23 | It is understood that most of the Sun 's employees , including vice presidents , have come round to the idea of embracing Motif in some shape or form , but there remains one unswerving voice . |
| 24 | I 've always grown up with the idea if I do a job , I 'll , I 'll do it properly or else I wo n't bother , I wo n't tackle it all . |
| 25 | If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner . |
| 26 | So you had to look for someone who had grown up with the idea that you could kill . |
| 27 | He might have said to her that some time in the middle of the nineteenth century a cult had grown up around the idea of the home . |
| 28 | So I did n't grow up with the idea that I had a poet in the family , by marriage of course . |
| 29 | Even women who were constantly abused as children by fathers , stepfathers , uncles or family ‘ friends ’ can grow up with the idea that they 're somehow guilty themselves . |
| 30 | ‘ So it came up with the idea of an amnesty on illegal weapons . ’ |