Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] idea [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequently Douglas has developed these ideas in a book which collects together much material in the urban environment from a physical geography point of view but perhaps also leads towards his view that ( Douglas , 1981 , p. 360 ) : |
| 2 | The researcher has to have some idea of what he or she is looking for , even though the outcome may be unpredictable . |
| 3 | In order for such a policy to be successful and efficient the government has to have some idea of the size of any changes in tax rates and so on required to stabilize the economy , and some idea of when precisely such changes are required . |
| 4 | Luxembourg , the conference chair , has ignored these ideas in its draft treaty . |
| 5 | Until now Mr Honecker has rejected any idea of change , but Kurt Hager , 77 , East Germany 's oldest and most authoritative Communist ideologue , said yesterday that the party 's immediate task was to work out ‘ a precise idea as to how to bring about a necessary renewal ’ . |
| 6 | The Chancellor has rejected any idea of an immediate cut in interest rates . |
| 7 | Just when you thought you 'd got some idea of the size , a cloud would stream past and the perspective would wind back . |
| 8 | He had lied to Evelyn when he 'd denied any idea of what the ransackers were looking for . |
| 9 | Much better news awaits those who may well have dismissed all ideas of Caterham ownership with one thought of the insurance bill . |
| 10 | I think in order to support our our response to the Royal Commission , which is imminent , the County Council and the District Council must now have had firm ideas on what they intend to do with parishes . |
| 11 | I was hoping you may have had some ideas about that . ’ |
| 12 | Faldo could n't have had any idea of the tropical storm brewing when he and Norman exchanged birdies at the first two holes . |
| 13 | It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic . |
| 14 | Then , being prevented from moving into other grazing areas by groups which had developed similar ideas of ownership , and realizing that there were limits to the carrying capacity of the land , they would sell off surplus cattle until they arrived at a perfect balance between the land and the stock residing upon it . |
| 15 | But if , if you 've got that idea of what Mao 's idea of excess is you know that you can have excesses then you go f forward and then you come back there |
| 16 | but er we 've got different ideas on how , like like I myself |
| 17 | Just so that I 've got some idea of er |
| 18 | From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 19 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family , so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from , then usually the Parish Registers and things like the Census Returns over the last hundred years are usually able to help them . |
| 20 | Yes , well anybody can come in and trace their family so long as they know that they came from Sussex at some point and they 've got some , something to work on , they 've got some idea of which town or which village they came from . |
| 21 | From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got some ideas on ’ |
| 23 | He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out . |
| 24 | This man , he said , had been criticising current ideas about the origin of the Teutons and the age of their civilisation , and had condemned these ideas from allegedly scientific points of view . |
| 25 | They did not allege that the Brigham Young University work had pirated any ideas from their own work . ’ |
| 26 | If Pecham had harboured any idea of renewing the struggle when his second provincial council met at Lambeth in 1281 , it was forestalled by a royal writ of prohibition of the general kind which simply barred some action . |
| 27 | Carrillo had opposed any idea of integration into the PSOE . |
| 28 | I 've 'ad this idea for a long time an' if I can get a few customers , we 'll be able ter buy some extra food an' we 'll be able to rent a better 'ouse , with good strong doors not like these rotten ones . ’ |
| 29 | He had resisted all ideas of mass emigration and enforced complete isolation on the warren , thereby almost certainly saving it from extinction . |
| 30 | But , of course , Ben had to drop that idea in order to write Gloriana . |