Example sentences of "come up [prep] the idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it has come up with the idea of a tape ‘ loop ’ to delay the broadcast of ‘ live ’ debates for long enough for an engineer to hit a panic button until the offending words have passed . |
| 2 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
| 3 | One can speculate that if Mezey had not come up with the idea of dispensing with two hospitals , and of the remaining four being given a quadrant of the region to serve each , the idea that it was an RHA rather than local management responsibility to deal with the issue , might never have stuck in the minds of senior regional officers . |
| 4 | One good piece of news — alas not definite , since it is still subject to possible changes — is that at the moment the European legislation process has come up with the idea that the national definitions of ‘ antique ’ for weapons will apply when the European harmonisation takes place . |
| 5 | According to his brother in law , Serrano Suñer , Franco appointed José Luis Arrese as Minister Secretary-General of the Party in 1940 because Arrese had come up with the idea of " relieving the hunger problem with dolphin sandwiches " . |
| 6 | And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one . |
| 7 | I would just say that what we 've done , we looked at the hospital , we looked at the youth building and at the moment we 've come up with the idea of the s the back room , the second room across the corridor , erm where we actually store some of the T I C books and pamphlets . |
| 8 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 9 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ So it came up with the idea of an amnesty on illegal weapons . ’ |
| 11 | As manager Scott Piering was overburdened with similar requests from fanzines , Morrissey came up with the idea of gathering a forum from six or seven of these fanzines . |
| 12 | The five research nurses at Abingdon Hospital , near Oxford , independently came up with the idea that there was a need for a national representative body . |
| 13 | Along with the bruises , I was left with the problem of what to do in the Grand Final , and eventually came up with the idea of a prop stool which would collapse at the touch of a button and jump up again on its own . |
| 14 | It was Alistair Bruce who came up with the idea . |
| 15 | I came up with the idea of having a sale . |
| 16 | As a way of avoiding crippling purchase tax , which only applied to completed goods , Mr Chapman came up with the idea of selling the car in kit form . |
| 17 | Determined not to let herself be beaten by such obstacles , Prue came up with the idea of a luncheon club for professional women in the Exeter area . |
| 18 | Cold fusion is the brainchild of Charles Frank , who first came up with the idea in 1947 . |
| 19 | A group of Dutch artists under the collective name of ‘ Cargo ’ recently came up with the idea of dropping 20,000 loaves of bread into the sea as an act of sacrifice ‘ from the nation ’ . |
| 20 | Local floatplane pilot Hugh Carlson , almost as a joke , came up with the idea of ‘ Why do n't we put one up on a pole ? ’ |
| 21 | After initial experiments with raised beds , ramps and customised tools some lateral thinkers from both groups came up with the idea of a wheelchair with a seat which could be lowered to the plants at ground level . |
| 22 | They came up with the idea , what did the form teacher do ? |
| 23 | MEMBERS of Southport Branch 's Service Circle each won 50 Ovations when they came up with the idea to give printed appointment cards to customers . |
| 24 | Colin came up with the idea for an environmental action cartoon for children 's television . |
| 25 | ‘ The Führer came up with the idea . |
| 26 | And Mark S , as the one who first came up with the idea , what would you like to say about it ? |
| 27 | We came up with the idea of attaching nose rings to all our players and getting someone in the kop to give a hefty tug when necessary . |
| 28 | The owners say they came up with the idea first . |
| 29 | Six months ago staff and disabled adults who use the unit came up with the idea of writing to hundreds of stars , politicians and even the Royal family … |
| 30 | But 180 years ago in America someone came up with the idea of a Temperance Society . |