Example sentences of "[vb -s] any idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No one has any idea how much the Wertheimer brothers who own Chanel pay Lagerfeld but it is estimated to run into millions . |
| 4 | ‘ Ah wonder if she has any idea what it is all about . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | She dismisses any idea that her accounting is in any sense ‘ creative ’ : ‘ I 'm not avoiding taxes but planning . |
| 7 | It rejects any idea of giving enterprises away ( the only way to privatise in a hurry ) . |
| 8 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |