Example sentences of "[not/n't] have a [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops . |
| 2 | Then driving to the house in Donegal in her pea-green Polo Fox ( ‘ I did n't choose the colour , it was a present from my daddy ’ ) she admitted , with amusement , she did not have a real idea what Parr did , and did not care a jot . |
| 3 | You will not be able to find out all you need to know if you do not have a clear idea before you go into the interview of : |
| 4 | It is as bizarre to suppose that I do not have a clear idea of a particular causal circumstance , say the one which gives rise to a query on the console of my computer , when I am unable to enumerate its elements . |
| 5 | One of the things that 's wrong with British shipping is that too much of it is in the hands of ancient mariners , dyed-in-the-wool shipping families that have n't had a new idea since the days of sail . |
| 6 | I 'm not sure she does n't have a funny idea that if she waits long enough people will drift back again , perhaps even Durance . |
| 7 | Unless people are free to say ‘ I do n't think it 's good enough ’ , ‘ I do n't feel as if I 'm doing a good enough job ’ , and ‘ I do n't have a clear idea of how to do it better ’ , teacher-generated and teacher-appropriated change will not happen . |