Example sentences of "idea of what [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many guests visit restaurants with preconceived ideas of what they should eat . |
| 2 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 3 | Everyone seemed to have different ideas of what you should do . |
| 4 | We have included ‘ answers ’ to the three introductory cases in order to give you an idea of what we would be looking for if we were marking your responses . |
| 5 | So let's have a look at an idea of what we should be looking at , should we . |
| 6 | The Lollard rising of Sir John Oldcastle in 1414 had no social aims ; indeed the rebels do not appear to have had any programme at all , beyond a vague idea of seizing the King ( without any very clear idea of what they would then do with him ) . |
| 7 | The idea of what they ought to do is more subtle and will come to them only if they love and trust their parents enough to want to be like them . |
| 8 | I honestly had no idea of what they might be thinking or what to make of it myself . |
| 9 | If children fear that their parents will stop loving them when they are naughty , they soon absorb the idea of what they must do . |
| 10 | If Sacu is to choose the latter road , the NSC may have to give them a clearer idea of what they will meet as they travel along it . |
| 11 | But there 's no clear idea of what they will be worth or how many private sector bidders there will be . |
| 12 | We at least have a subjective idea of what an echo is , but we have almost no subjective idea of what it might be like to perceive an electric field . |
| 13 | I 've got no idea of what it might fetch , but as I say it is fiction Kath , do n't worry about it . |
| 14 | The story I 'm working on started with the idea of what it would be like to break your glasses on holiday . |
| 15 | Now it was I who could n't move ; more than that I was n't even able to form an idea of what it would be like to move . |
| 16 | I think the bit that stands up above the horizon is fine , I mean I think that gives you a good idea of what it would have been like had you been able to get the whole , or not perhaps the whole of it , but a lot more of the post up above the horizon simply by getting down lower . |
| 17 | At least if it were pitch black we could really get an idea of what it will be like to ‘ walk through the Channel Tunnel ’ . |
| 18 | What do you think , have you an idea of what it will be . |
| 19 | £ But I think to give us perhaps a more vivid idea of what it must have been like for ordinary people , these are 3 houses in St Aldate 's that do n't exist any more , they 're down more-or-less where the police station is , erm and we do know exactly who lived there , and who was actually there during the war . |
| 20 | I am wondering if you have any idea of what it could be ? ’ |
| 21 | His daughter had never seen her father and had no idea of what he would be like . |
| 22 | And Forester had no idea of what he would do then . |
| 23 | Erm it 's a very , it 's always a good idea to do a plan , cos yeah , spend five minutes or so planning and jot down a rough plan and it might be that we would , we wo , we would normally ignore , ignore the plan when marking but if , you have n't finished a question and er , it 's a bit thin we might look at your plan to get some idea of what you would actually written |
| 24 | To give you a better idea of what you 'll be paying for , we put five shoes from leading manufacturers to the test . |
| 25 | On the opposite page we 've put together three outfits from the Freemans catalogue spring/summer collection — just to give you an idea of what you could win . |
| 26 | The list below will give you some idea of what you can do . |
| 27 | In the past 30 days you have been training your body to work at its optimum potential ; and you will now have a good idea of what you can achieve by using the Walking Diet recipes and aerobic walking . |
| 28 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 29 | When I graduated I came to London , again with not much idea of what I would do . |
| 30 | Robyn clutched the receiver and found she did n't have the first idea of what she would say when he answered it . |