Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] [adj] idea " in BNC.
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1 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
2 | There are probably many examples of instances in which Western technology has come up with a good idea which has the capability of helping the hundreds of millions of people in the Developing World . |
3 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
4 | Alwyn has come up with a novel idea , producing a book which is directly associated with the painting holiday courses he runs . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Though most merchants say it is too early to come up with a firm idea of the trade , the initial reports on quality suggest some low nitrogens and good bushel weights , at least for the Puffin that seems to predominate at the moment . |
10 | But she just looks at me pityingly , like I was behind the times and needed to catch up with the latest ideas . ’ |
11 | ‘ The students came up with a sound idea for an instrument that would give digital readings , which was developed by our technicians , ’ commented Paul . |
12 | Then in the 1960s British Rail came up with a novel idea for a faster train . |
13 | And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me . |
14 | Maureen came up with the ingenious idea of making a sling . |
15 | Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits . |
16 | ‘ 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 . |
17 | A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change . |
18 | All came up with the same idea and they wanted to do it . |
19 | Next Derek came up with the bright idea of making me walk to see how far I could get . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The course machinery was also increasingly sophisticated , and was supposedly superior , and the Club was obliged to keep up with the latest ideas , as both members and staff expected it . |
24 | You had to make her feel she was coming up with the original idea . |
25 | 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 ? ’ |
26 | They come up with the Big Ideas and build the organizations — the Big Machines — that turn them into reality . |
27 | Les come up with the same ideas I thought when I se , when we had bought it . |
28 | you just like the idea of bacon cooking you picked up on the same idea . |