Example sentences of "[adv] have a [adv] [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such a situation the teacher can not choose when to use the programme , and unless it is a rebroadcast , he will only have a very general idea of what the programme will be about or what its language content will be ( vocabulary , grammar , structures , level of difficulty , appropriateness , etc ) . |
| 2 | More damaging to the continuity of sessions were the frequent occasions when teachers interrupted themselves , either because they did not have a very clear idea of what they were trying to say , or because their organizational structure was so complicated that they were trying to do too many things at once . |
| 3 | WHEN President Clinton unveils his plans for the US economy in full today , Americans will already have a fairly clear idea of what faces them . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll show you in a little while , my darling — as if you do n't already have a very good idea ! ’ laughed Maria . |
| 5 | If you get into the habit of always checking the prices of furniture you like in shops , sales or auction rooms , you will soon have a pretty clear idea of most values whether antique , second hand , reproduction or modern . |
| 6 | Those who got selected either for constituencies , or for the Central Office list when it was established in the 1950s , tended to be those whom old buffers in the party already had a pretty good idea about , because they knew their fathers , their regiments or their schools . |
| 7 | A meeting of all the tourists would be summoned straightaway ( Ashenden felt a pair of unblinking blue eyes upon him ) — summoned to meet somewhere in the hotel ( the Manager nodded again — the St John 's Suite was free ) , and Morse himself would then address the group and tell them as much or as little as he wanted to tell them , believing , he admitted , that Rumour had probably lost little of her sprinting speed since Virgil 's time , and that most of the tourists already had a pretty good idea of what had happened . |
| 8 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 9 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 10 | I was only gon na say we 're , we will probably have a much clearer idea by the time we get to the results . |
| 11 | These divergent states are often subjectively perceived as having distinctive characteristics that mark them out as discrete varieties : people can recognize regional varieties such as ‘ Birmingham ’ English , ‘ Yorkshire ’ English and so on , and they often have a fairly clear idea of how such varieties are distinguished from one another . |
| 12 | ASTRONOMERS now have a far better idea of the size of the Universe , thanks to observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope . |
| 13 | She actually had a fairly good idea of what was wrong with her mother , but was wondering how to approach Patrick , without alarming him … although in this case , it was probably better to alarm him . |