Example sentences of "up the idea " 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 | Who thought up the idea that the payment mechanism — the Letter of Credit — should be independent from the underlying sales contract ? |
| 5 | But he was told that he would have to pay rent for the land until the end of time , so he gave up the idea . |
| 6 | Stirling then dreamed up the idea of a true-to-life rehearsal against shipping at Port Suez , without bothering to inform the Navy . |
| 7 | I gave up the idea of tea , but was able to make a washer in the afternoon with rubber from an abandoned tyre . |
| 8 | It was the Scottish King Ewen III who dreamt up the idea of the right of the first night , around the year 875 . |
| 9 | Edwina Currie and Simon Hughes not only have the same face , voice and mannerisms — they are in fact the same person : creations of a con- and drag-artist who dreamed up the idea to draw two salaries , and now wishes he had n't . |
| 10 | A better solution may well be to pick up the idea of rotating the audit partner every five to 10 years . |
| 11 | We were soon building up the idea of productivity … |
| 12 | Somehow I had picked up the idea that putting the patient in a tub of hot water sometimes had the desired effect . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some while later Colonel James Churchward picked up the idea of Mu . |
| 15 | Jubilant , most gave up the idea of protesting in the freezing temperatures again , but approximately 1,000 persisted with their plan . |
| 16 | Adverts continued for holiday trips to France , Holland and Belgium , but no one knows who or how many people took up the idea . |
| 17 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | In due course , however , the Collector had to give up the idea of shovelling under these conditions . |
| 21 | She had taken up the idea , she supposed , and made everything bend to it . |
| 22 | Another attempt to save the inductivist programme involves giving up the idea of ascribing probabilities to scientific laws and theories . |
| 23 | But in the end the sub-committee gave up the idea ( to the regret of some members ) , and the full committee agreed . |
| 24 | If the subject is a " classical " one — one that changes little and is of long standing — you may find old editions of early textbooks on the library shelves but , if the subject is a developing one , you have n't a hope of borrowing the right texts , because they are all out on loan : give up the idea . |
| 25 | That first sentence setting up the idea in the reader 's mind that not only has the narrator committed a murder but that something has gone wrong and he has , despite all precautions , been found out . |
| 26 | Beth had long ago given up the idea of winning the old man over . |
| 27 | As I told the board before their meeting with the Receiver , the blame lies solely with the person who dreamt up the idea , namely Chester Bence . |
| 28 | Sir Roy Griffiths took up the idea , under a different name , in 1988 in specifying that ‘ no person should be discharged without a clear package of care devised and without being the responsibility of a named care worker . ’ |
| 29 | Two years later , the War Office picked up the idea and soon the system was adopted by the army and navy . |
| 30 | After the Second World War , American scientists , Herbert Simon and Alan Newell , took up the idea that the computer could embody intelligence . |