Example sentences of "conceived the idea of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was then that I conceived the idea of getting a few fans that he had in those days to walk around the television company with placards saying Lets Be Fair To The Long Hairs , which did get press publicity , and in the end , the producer relented and he did his first TV show . ’ |
| 3 | It was during one of these classes that Lyttelton , chatting with Fawkes , conceived the idea of forming his own band , which first came into existence in January 1948 . |
| 4 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 5 | In June , with understandable disappointment , Nietzsche withdrew the manuscript " and conceived the idea of dismembering the new whole and having the pieces published separately as pamphlets or articles . |
| 6 | He it was who conceived the idea of identifying mind with consciousness and of claiming that consciousness and its contents are radically different sods of things from bodies and their properties . |
| 7 | William Morton Pitt of Kingston Maurwood , MP for Dorset and a relative of the two famous Prime Ministers ‘ impressed with the beauty of the situation of Swanwich and the salubrity of its climate , and finding the shore of smooth fine sand to be admirably adapted for sea bathing , first conceived the idea of raising it to the condition of a watering place ’ . |