Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] idea " in BNC.

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1 The reader might have come away with a Victorian idea of the inexorability of progress , each generation better , finer and braver than its parents .
2 There are probably many examples of instances in which Western technology has come up with a good idea which has the capability of helping the hundreds of millions of people in the Developing World .
3 He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea .
4 Alwyn has come up with a novel idea , producing a book which is directly associated with the painting holiday courses he runs .
5 They 've also come up with the quaint idea of having a T-shirt recycling stall in the club where you can take your old T-shirts and get a new Dodgy one in exchange .
6 This hits application performance , but the company has come up with the innovative idea of letting users run NLMs in protected mode until they are proved stable , after which they can be invited into the same memory segment as the core operating system to boost performance .
7 It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side .
8 In the USA , I discovered from a report by Dermot Pungavie in the Daily Mail , for those mourners who wish to view but are short of time , one funeral director in Chicago has come up with the novel idea of drive-in viewing .
9 He 's come here with a fixed idea , which he 's been looking forward to for half his life .
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