Example sentences of "idea [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europhiles are hailing the idea as a significant step on the road to European cooperation over technology . |
| 2 | Then a nineteenth-century professor of medicine in Germany hit on the idea as a way of stopping impoverished bachelors from fathering illegitimate children . |
| 3 | But for a moment , gladdened by her easy assumption that they were a couple , that she was n't thinking of leaving him , he actually entertained the idea as a feasible solution to all their problems . |
| 4 | Sources inside Price Waterhouse describe the idea as a ‘ bad joke ’ and ‘ too huge to even contemplate ’ . |
| 5 | He was not , so far as we can tell , putting forward the idea as a serious theory : his purpose was to tell a good story . |
| 6 | Others only backed the idea as a means to other ends . |
| 7 | Bonar Law first welcomed the idea as a means of reducing his party 's dependence on " the trade " , but opposed it when he recognized the scale of party feeling . |
| 8 | What is relevant to our discussion is only the conception of an Idea as a principle of unity , and the fact that an Idea can not be a phenomenal object . |
| 9 | But she believed that the more a woman covered up , the more she was attractive to the opposite sex , while Bernard grasped the idea as a way of using up more fabric . |
| 10 | He put forward the idea as a means of ending the fierce competition between the two airport companies , which are both putting forward major expansion proposals . |
| 11 | He put forward the idea as a means of ending the fierce competition between the two airports . |
| 12 | Judging by the amount of political column inches devoted to stating the ‘ obvious ’ irrationality of the programme 's political contentions , it would appear that one or two ‘ sensible ’ capitalist newspaper owners and editors did take time off from lunch to ensure the sensible British public did not get the wrong idea about A Very British Coup . |
| 13 | You are seeking ideas whenever you invite someone else to put forward an idea about a possible course of action . |
| 14 | ‘ I had some sort of idea about a telescoped vision , ’ Minton told Nevile Wallis , ‘ like those newsreel films taken with a magnifying lens of state functions and so on , where you get that curious distortion . ’ |
| 15 | I told him the history of the charts , my initial idea for a peephole of some sort . |
| 16 | Although no formal proposals have yet been announced by anyone , there is no doubt that the idea for a ‘ Super Super Series ’ , as I suppose it should be called , is gaining momentum . |
| 17 | THE idea for a beer drinkers ' protection movement came to four young men holidaying in Ireland in 1971 . |
| 18 | The idea for a national committee to act as an independent watchdog has been proposed behind the scenes by Sir David Cox , one of the world 's most eminent statisticians . |
| 19 | - You have a brilliant idea for a Christmas present for somebody . |
| 20 | The Statistics Users ' Council is to hold a seminar of its member organisations , including the Confederation of British Industry ; the Trades Union Congress ; the Royal Economics Society ; the Institute of Statisticians ; the Royal Statistical Society , which is already considering an idea for a watchdog organisation ; and the government Statistical Service . |
| 21 | Thus does one get an idea for a new dish . |
| 22 | Mr Petrakov is in an understandable hurry , but his idea for a short-cut to a convertible currency could bring a wild ride . |
| 23 | Let us think about this idea for a moment . |
| 24 | And then we thought what a great idea for a book . |
| 25 | My other idea for a healthy Ireland , an Irish king , had been proved yet another alien English notion , for pre-Ascendancy Ireland boasted not one but many kings . |
| 26 | I had the idea for a school in Berlin that would help train the musicians we would need in the future . |
| 27 | I kick off with an idea for a shady border under a deciduous tree . |
| 28 | William Sale suggests that the idea for a second volume originated with Richardson 's friend Thomas Edwards . |
| 29 | I have an idea for a piece of work that might possibly provide a theme for my doctorate thesis . |
| 30 | He outlined his idea for a movie plot , which was basically the story of two Californian friends who decide to make a once-and-for-all fortune by selling a consignment of cocaine , and then setting off across the country for a marijuana-cum-motorbikes adventure . |