Example sentences of "idea of [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , the group toyed with the idea of developing a new unconstrained , non-compatible architecture but then abandoned that notion claiming the trade-off suffered was relatively minor . |
| 2 | The Minister 's enthusiasm sounds a bit hollow , especially as the Government ran away from Monktonhall and the idea of developing the Scottish coalfields . |
| 3 | In the later sketches , which become cruder and less Cézannesque in style , Picasso abandoned the idea of including the two male figures in the composition . |
| 4 | Seaview boss Roy Walker , toying with the idea of including the suspended Kirk Hunter against the Swiss at Seaview on Tuesday — Kirk 's ban does not include European games — was delighted with this result and namesake Glenn Hunter 's performance . |
| 5 | What do you make of this idea of building a new hospital at Norwich with fewer beds ? |
| 6 | As a consequence the original idea of installing an additional floor in the building could not go ahead at present . |
| 7 | Her idea of using a private pool had become a compulsion . |
| 8 | This idea of using a homoeopathic potency of a poison to counteract the effects of that poison — in other words , isopathy — has been extended to study the effects of potencies of mercury in mercury poisoning . |
| 9 | Stewart Wilson of the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford put forward the idea of using a Chinese sailing wheelbarrow instead of the two-wheeled cart which I was considering , and one of his students , Khalid Nazir , made a wooden prototype . |
| 10 | DOS 4 users will be familiar with the idea of using a graphical interface , but the DOS 5 shell is far better and much more friendly . |
| 11 | The idea of using a Constitutional Commission and a referendum to endow any new constitution with a special prestige does not alter the fact that within our constitution referenda are of an advisory character only and have not served to limit Parliament 's ultimate discretion . |
| 12 | At the time of the Korean War , when Attlee helped to persuade Truman to drop any idea of using the atomic bomb against the Chinese mainland , Britain had not exploded her first nuclear weapon . |
| 13 | Fender have hit upon the idea of using the dodgy antique dealer 's favourite ploy : artificial ageing . |
| 14 | It would seem that it was Hazelden who sold to the planners at MEHQ the idea of delivering a final knock-out blow to the two main German supply ports , Tobruk and Benghazi . |
| 15 | Yet if the lapidaries of Europe and India shared the idea of faceting the convex face of flat-bottomed stones , they had to do their work subject to different expectations . |
| 16 | Some readers will have come across the idea of expressing a simple relationship between an explanatory variable X and a response variable Y as Y = a + bX . |
| 17 | Simon the saint figure kept up his Christian idea of loving the un-lovely and treated Piggy like in the story of the ‘ Good Samaritan ’ . |
| 18 | While I like the idea of allowing a different pianist to combine with strings for each work , I miss that element of personality and insight which a great soloist such as Rubinstein brought to this music . |
| 19 | Outside the hotel he had fought down misgivings at the idea of allowing an old man to drag him through the streets when he could easily have walked , and he began to wonder if he should dismount . |
| 20 | He then hit upon the idea of holding an extended putter just under , and sometimes just touching , his chin . |
| 21 | Maginn canvassed other British delegates and found support for his idea of creating a representative body in the United Kingdom and Ireland . |
| 22 | While there is no motion on the issue for debate at next month 's General Assembly , some leading Presbyterian figures have floated the idea of creating a new position within the Church structure . |
| 23 | Every business letter should be written with the idea of creating a favourable impression in the mind of the reader . |
| 24 | The only element not accepted was the idea of creating a Supreme State Inspectorate to ensure that all laws and decrees were being enforced in the republics . |
| 25 | He toyed with the idea of creating a little angst in her life to slow her down . |
| 26 | I had already discussed with Roger Penrose the idea of defining a black hole as the set of events from which it was not possible to escape to a large distance , which is now the generally accepted definition . |
| 27 | In the middle of the last century , a local landowner of rare imagination , Osgood Mackenzie , conceived the idea of transforming a barren and rocky promontory of Loch Ewe into a wild garden in which , blessed by the influence of the Gulf Stream , trees and shrubs would be persuaded to flourish in defiance of the harsh northern climate . |
| 28 | Given Nuremberg 's deeply repressed recent history with its strong Nazi connections , it is perhaps also not surprising that her idea of transforming the former site of the Nuremberg rallies into a peace park should meet with opposition . |
| 29 | Schikaneder suggested to Mozart the idea of writing a new kind of opera-pantomime , with German dialogue , for the theatre , in which Schikaneder himself would have a part . |
| 30 | Orton switched things around so that it was much more Ken 's vehicle , as Williams said , ‘ He did , suddenly , get fired with the idea of writing a zonking great part for me . ’ |