Example sentences of "idea [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encourage children to write about ‘ the trouble with teachers ’ and ‘ the school I would like ’ they may well come up with ideas worth adopting . |
| 2 | Then he turned up and explained his ideas about bringing electricity to Low Birk Hatt . |
| 3 | Oliver was a whiny child , partly , I think , because Nonni had set ideas about bringing up babies which involved feeding them at set hours and leaving them to cry in between . |
| 4 | Neither is anybody convinced that the Union has any ideas about bringing about genuine improvement within the game . |
| 5 | I have very clear ideas about dressing gowns . |
| 6 | I tell him if he harbours any ideas about staying with me , he 'd better kick the gear . |
| 7 | Our four teachers represented the best in modern ideas about teaching English , the new consensus between the traditional and the progressive which had become increasingly dominant in Britain during the 1980s . |
| 8 | This contempt derives from the 1950s and 1960s , when some senior educationalists committed themselves to fashionable ideas about teaching English : that children would learn to read naturally without the help of formal instruction , or that their writing should be the product not of craft but of free expression . |
| 9 | I do n't want you to get any ideas about replacing Jonathan with me , because it just wo n't work . |
| 10 | There 's a lot of erm , conflicting ideas about using Abbey 's rate book and , and you might look very confusing in itself , but actually it 's not half so bad as it seems . |
| 11 | From his headquarters in Weston-super-Mare , Burniston tells me , ‘ Although one of two privately owned clubs may have ideas about taking over the pro 's shop , I believe that a good shop run by the professional and his staff is essential at a club . ’ |
| 12 | Some people have weird ideas about speechreading . |
| 13 | The two men were at the top of the stairs and almost within grabbing distance , but if either had tried it he would have left his fingers in the frame as the bang echoed through the house and Carson thumbed the deadlock button , just in case they had any ideas about picking their way in . |
| 14 | The danger otherwise is the development of utopian ideas about moving towards ideal systems without true recognition of the problems involved , ideas that , at a global level of consideration , can also seem appealing to the client . |
| 15 | They have grandiose ideas about creating a plutonium economy , built upon advanced reactors , reprocessing plants and thermal reactors burning plutonium fuel . |
| 16 | This idea of a hierarchy of control allows the analyst to focus on each element in turn , and derive ideas about monitoring and controlling at various levels . |
| 17 | lot of ideas about getting an idea about did you , am I in the class just now ? |
| 18 | In listing the objectives that shape the exhibition , Whitney museum curator Elizabeth Sussman said her team of curators searched for ‘ the best new work that speaks to us in a compelling manner and in some cases challenges conventional ideas about artmaking . |
| 19 | The Conservative governments of the 1980s saw school admissions as a key area in which to put into practice some of the New Right ideas about introducing free market principles into the education system , whilst at the same time deriving political capital from giving some legal recognition to parents ' ‘ moral right ’ to choose how their children are educated . |
| 20 | He has a rule about her coming alone on these expeditions , but we have one or two ideas about changing the rules this time . ’ |
| 21 | And again , ‘ … ideas about separating , purifying , demarcating and punishing transgressions have as their main function to impose system on an inherently untidy experience . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't get any ideas about having me back again . ’ |
| 23 | The CNAA was aware of strong controlling tendencies by the local authority , and indeed the Director of Education , who was retiring , was known to ‘ have ideas about becoming Director of the Polytechnic ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't get any ideas about running if I were you , ’ he said , looking her over as if he were contemplating buying . |
| 25 | Wayne was hoping that nobody else would get any ideas about joining them . |
| 26 | In addition , it will be useful to examine the idea that pre-literate societies , either in antiquity or those existing in the contemporary world , have more ( or more far-fetched ) mystical ideas about dreaming than our own . |
| 27 | Ideas about representing the structure of energy and movement were sought through experimentation with new materials and light . |
| 28 | I had some faint ideas about releasing , but David was able to give me some valuable advice on how to go about it . |
| 29 | Yet it often happens that when a new kung fu student enters a kwoon , with pre-conceived ideas about fighting , and is shown basic techniques that look as though they were aimed at primary school level , he looks for more in those techniques than there actually is . |
| 30 | Children comparing ideas about keeping healthy could make a class graph showing what they consider contributes to health . |