Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] idea of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maureen came up with the ingenious idea of making a sling . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Next Derek came up with the bright idea of making me walk to see how far I could get . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | CENTRE MONDIAL grew out of the complementary ideas of two men : French politician Jean-Jacques , Servan-Schreiber and American scientist Seymour Papert . |
| 11 | Darwin discovered a new species of the rhea , the flightless bird of the pampas , and realized that the existence of two closely related species in the same area made nonsense out of the old idea of perfect adaptation . |
| 12 | But the other part cried out against the mere idea of her being someone else 's wife . |
| 13 | It prevents us falling back upon the familiar ideas of a ‘ father in heaven ’ who is thought of in much the same way as Santa Claus or an uncle in Australia . |
| 14 | His inspiration goes back to the early idea of Charles Frank , plus the fact that muon catalysed fusion was observed in 1956 by accident and the interest has grown in fits and starts ever since . |
| 15 | ( Koch 1985a , p. 149 ) Koch and others have stressed that because this conception of the gaze goes back to the Freudian idea of an originary bisexuality it therefore affords a better explanation of women 's actual viewing behaviour , e.g. their multiple identifications with either gender . |
| 16 | Let's go back to the Greek idea of Jesus entering into our sinfulness and weakness . |
| 17 | Johnson , just debating , we 're getting on to the whole idea of Johnson 's world and the link though it worked out the same I 'd say . |