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 | They come up with the Big Ideas and build the organizations — the Big Machines — that turn them into reality . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change . |
| 9 | All came up with the same idea and they wanted to do it . |
| 10 | Les come up with the same ideas I thought when I se , when we had bought it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But she just looks at me pityingly , like I was behind the times and needed to catch up with the latest ideas . ’ |
| 13 | Next Derek came up with the bright idea of making me walk to see how far I could get . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | You had to make her feel she was coming up with the original idea . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | you just like the idea of bacon cooking you picked up on the same idea . |
| 22 | ‘ Give yourself up to the fixed idea : to become a painter . ’ |
| 23 | Learn to see what follows on from the main ideas as a kind of proof . |
| 24 | Out of the above ideas several factors emerge that are common both to accounts of perception and to strategies for enhancing appraisal . |
| 25 | CENTRE MONDIAL grew out of the complementary ideas of two men : French politician Jean-Jacques , Servan-Schreiber and American scientist Seymour Papert . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But the other part cried out against the mere idea of her being someone else 's wife . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |