Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's the odour of sanctity the atmosphere of a nice church and nice vicar and lots of people joined together with the same idea |
| 2 | The girl poured out a generous measure and then , obviously without the faintest idea what she was saying , but had learned by rote , she smilingly asked me ‘ Saywhenpleasesir ? ’ |
| 3 | So we know that we have to think carefully and critically through the general idea of ‘ preparation for work and adult life ’ . |
| 4 | The most notable thing about the Rough Wooing is not that in the end the savagery of the English attack drove the Scots away from the new idea of friendship with England and back into the arms of their natural and ancient allies , the French . |
| 5 | This alternative model moves away from the conventional idea of a child with learning difficulties to one which recognises and builds on the child 's learning achievements . |
| 6 | The balance of evidence seems to be swinging away from the original idea of swamp-dwelling giant dinosaurs to fully terrestrial habits . |
| 7 | And that 's I ca n't help thinking that 's really got quite some way away from the original idea . |
| 8 | Within a short space of time , however , there were already signs that the Brussels structure was running away from the British idea . |
| 9 | We 've got what amounts to a lifetime 's supply of Crystal Clear airline to give away to the best idea for making the most of your free filter matting . |
| 10 | The Orphic idea of Chronos , which may have had an influence on Pythagoras , seems rather like the Iranian idea of Zurvan akarana . |
| 11 | This new , technical use of ‘ myth ’ to mean , not a falsehood , but a truth indirectly expressed , has since become very common in theology — though not always with the same idea about what truth actually is as in Strauss . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , of course , ’ I agreed quickly without the faintest idea of what I was agreeing to . |
| 13 | If terrestrial zodiacs ore the product of our own imagination , we can either dismiss them as pure delusion , or work positively with the same idea , seeing their description and charting as a work of art in its own right . |
| 14 | Maureen came up with the ingenious idea of making a sling . |
| 15 | And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me . |
| 16 | They 've also come up with the quaint idea of having a T-shirt recycling stall in the club where you can take your old T-shirts and get a new Dodgy one in exchange . |
| 17 | This hits application performance , but the company has come up with the innovative idea of letting users run NLMs in protected mode until they are proved stable , after which they can be invited into the same memory segment as the core operating system to boost performance . |
| 18 | You , dear Ruth , with your successful company , your beauty , your intelligence , how could you let your sensibility come up with the very idea that Maria Luisa 's baby is mine ? ’ |
| 19 | A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change . |
| 20 | All came up with the same idea and they wanted to do it . |
| 21 | Next Derek came up with the bright idea of making me walk to see how far I could get . |
| 22 | But Tandri now came up with the bright idea of charging an exorbitant additional fee for every island we needed to call at en route . |
| 23 | It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side . |
| 24 | I was unaware of this and ca n't afford it anyway , so I was pleased when the manageress of the shop next door came up with the bright idea of playing it in my rest room , where the public are not allowed . |
| 25 | In the USA , I discovered from a report by Dermot Pungavie in the Daily Mail , for those mourners who wish to view but are short of time , one funeral director in Chicago has come up with the novel idea of drive-in viewing . |
| 26 | ‘ Walt Disney came up with the off-beat idea of having popular film and radio star Phil Harris provide the voice for Mowgli 's mellow mentor , Baloo . |
| 27 | You had to make her feel she was coming up with the original idea . |
| 28 | The extra performance on the Tuesday in aid of the new cancer day-care ward at Whiston Hospital raised three hundred pounds and special thanks go to Betty who came up with the original idea and everyone involved who organized the marvellous spread for the soiree afterwards . |
| 29 | So you take issue both with the very idea of ‘ the normal ’ and ‘ normalization ’ , and with the fact that the authorities do n't even bother to fulfil their professed |
| 30 | you just like the idea of bacon cooking you picked up on the same idea . |