Example sentences of "[verb] any idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berkeley held , as we have seen , that an abstract general idea is simply an idea of a particular thing used to stand for other such ideas ; and it is clear that what Hume applauds is Berkeley 's refusal to accept any ideas other than those of immediate and concrete experience . |
| 2 | The NSA is now so large , so complex , and so secret that no one in America , least of all the president or Congress , has any idea what it is doing or how sensibly the taxpayers ' money is being spent . |
| 3 | Nobody has any idea what he 's on about in the mangled trance opening song ‘ Bong ’ , but at least there 's some conviction and fire . |
| 4 | No one has any idea how much the Wertheimer brothers who own Chanel pay Lagerfeld but it is estimated to run into millions . |
| 5 | ‘ Ah wonder if she has any idea what it is all about . |
| 6 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 7 | He sighed and said , ‘ Well , if anyone has any ideas about what to do … |
| 8 | Request his views on whether the meeting is making progress at the right pace and whether he has any ideas on ways of moving things forward . |
| 9 | Neither is anybody convinced that the Union has any ideas about bringing about genuine improvement within the game . |
| 10 | ‘ We have applied for the use of a pitch at the Welsh College of Horticulture in Northop but , meanwhile , if anyone else has any ideas I would be grateful if they would contact me . ’ |
| 11 | The Dalek 's power was conducted through the floors so you instantly dismissed any idea of the city being built from house bricks . |
| 12 | We suggested a time of quiet , to catch any ideas that might come from this Source . |
| 13 | After that … ’ he shook his head to denigrate any idea of a lasting affair … ‘ she 's not in the running . ’ |
| 14 | I tell him if he harbours any ideas about staying with me , he 'd better kick the gear . |
| 15 | THE Irish Coursing Club have scuppered any idea of interfering with Dunmore |
| 16 | She was under control when , in pleasant tones , she stated , ‘ To be more exact , I 'd intended to speak to Lubor to enquire if he 'd any idea when you might be returning from Prague . ’ |
| 17 | But it firmly rejected any idea of reforming the system , saying : ‘ We are against suggestions and demonstrations which aim to lead people astray and change the constitutional basis of our state . ’ |
| 18 | It promised to discuss issues including better economic performance , ‘ democratic togetherness ’ , better goods , opportunities to travel and a healthy environment , but rejected any idea of reforming the system . |
| 19 | It rejected any idea that an organisation should ever be created to suit the individual characteristics of people . |
| 20 | Piatakov rejected any idea of an independent Ukraine and urged military invasion to re-establish Russian control . |
| 21 | We have just seen how Kierkegaard rejected any idea that faith could be proved by the appeal to historical argument . |
| 22 | Burke unequivocally rejected any idea of a " mandate " or " instructions " from his constituents as to how he should vote or what line he should take on any particular issue as " things utterly unknown to the laws of this land " , reflecting a misconception of " the whole order and tenor of our constitution " . |
| 23 | Windeyer J. rejected any idea that mere superiority of position of the defendant was a ground of recovery in the following passage , at p. 142 : |
| 24 | The President of the Bophuthatswana homeland , Lucas Mangope , on Dec. 6 rejected any idea of re-incorporation into South Africa . |
| 25 | While support for the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl had been further undermined during the period of the strike , a meeting between the three ruling coalition parties and the opposition Social Democrats ( SPD ) on May 27 failed to resolve differences , and both the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and SPD rejected any idea of a " grand coalition " as suggested by the media . |
| 26 | So put any idea of Sophia Loren — he was an older instructor — needing the kiss of life out of your mind , he advised . |
| 27 | So , although we can show that deprivation produces loss of function on certain tasks , these studies do not indicate how the loss may be combatted , if at all and , from a psychological point of view , they do not give any idea of how this changed processing affects other aspects of function . |
| 28 | If so does it actually propose to bring a confession of faith er in modern terms and if so , can the panel give any idea what form that might take . |
| 29 | Can he give any idea of what the level of occupational pensions will be by the turn of the century ? |
| 30 | so in , in a way , I mean I 'm really almost be in this case be limited to simply saying can you give any idea when you 're likely to , be able to produce anything other |