Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] with the idea of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In most minds that entertain thoughts on either subject , the SSC is mixed up with the idea of the Higgs particle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ So it came up with the idea of an amnesty on illegal weapons . ’ |
| 13 | As manager Scott Piering was overburdened with similar requests from fanzines , Morrissey came up with the idea of gathering a forum from six or seven of these fanzines . |
| 14 | Along with the bruises , I was left with the problem of what to do in the Grand Final , and eventually came up with the idea of a prop stool which would collapse at the touch of a button and jump up again on its own . |
| 15 | I came up with the idea of having a sale . |
| 16 | As a way of avoiding crippling purchase tax , which only applied to completed goods , Mr Chapman came up with the idea of selling the car in kit form . |
| 17 | Determined not to let herself be beaten by such obstacles , Prue came up with the idea of a luncheon club for professional women in the Exeter area . |
| 18 | A group of Dutch artists under the collective name of ‘ Cargo ’ recently came up with the idea of dropping 20,000 loaves of bread into the sea as an act of sacrifice ‘ from the nation ’ . |
| 19 | Local floatplane pilot Hugh Carlson , almost as a joke , came up with the idea of ‘ Why do n't we put one up on a pole ? ’ |
| 20 | After initial experiments with raised beds , ramps and customised tools some lateral thinkers from both groups came up with the idea of a wheelchair with a seat which could be lowered to the plants at ground level . |
| 21 | We came up with the idea of attaching nose rings to all our players and getting someone in the kop to give a hefty tug when necessary . |
| 22 | Six months ago staff and disabled adults who use the unit came up with the idea of writing to hundreds of stars , politicians and even the Royal family … |
| 23 | But 180 years ago in America someone came up with the idea of a Temperance Society . |
| 24 | I mean he initially did n't wan na know and then you went on about er and came up with the idea of well I 'm very fit , the family 's fit never have any problems health wise erm the o the only thing there you , I do n't think you actually mentioned possibility of accident |
| 25 | Boelcke , promoted captain after his eighteenth victory , now came out with the idea of creating a Jagdstaffel , or ‘ hunting pack ’ ( later given the soubriquet of ‘ Flying Circus ’ by the Royal Flying Corps ) , a group of twelve planes divided into flights of three , and flying in closely interdependent formation . |
| 26 | Like its fragmented nature , housework 's ‘ never-endingness ’ is so much bound up with the idea of housework that the two are not conceived apart . |
| 27 | They are not perhaps the kind of remarks to be found in Christmas crackers , but they suggest that his humour was bound up with the idea of self-parody : he is mocking the pontifical manner which others associated with him . |
| 28 | The evolutionist schemes are too abstract and simple to comprehend the diverse political systems which have emerged within the largely separate political histories of different regions of the world ; and in spite of all the qualifications that have been introduced they are too closely bound up with the idea of progress — if not unilinear then at least converging upon the same end — to entertain the possibility that political systems might be repeated , mutatis mutandis , in the course of history : that new kinds of autocracy or new forms of empire might succeed democratic regimes . |
| 29 | For many , aspiration to higher things through promotion was tied up with the idea of a larger wage-packet . |
| 30 | A major difficulty , here , is that the idea of communication is tied up with the idea of intention , and intention is a very tricky concept in literary criticism . |