Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maureen came up with the ingenious idea of making a sling . |
| 2 | And so I came up with the following idea , which works extremely well for me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | Next Derek came up with the bright idea of making me walk to see how far I could get . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | You had to make her feel she was coming up with the original idea . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Give yourself up to the fixed idea : to become a painter . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But the other part cried out against the mere idea of her being someone else 's wife . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ( 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 . |
| 19 | Well I mean now basically the ri er the question about a riff-raff is er just back to the old idea whether you 're going too far or whether |
| 20 | Let's go back to the Greek idea of Jesus entering into our sinfulness and weakness . |
| 21 | They have caught on to the right idea , by saying , |
| 22 | Yet we must hold on to the basic idea that science discovers the truth of how the world works . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even Mr Akers seemed slowly to be coming round to the sensible idea that IBM should be broken up . |