Example sentences of "[vb past] the idea of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet if the lapidaries of Europe and India shared the idea of faceting the convex face of flat-bottomed stones , they had to do their work subject to different expectations . |
| 2 | An amusing parallel in the film business is an account given by the director Ken Russell of how he sold the idea of making a film about Tchaikowsky ; he described it to his potential backers as the story of a homosexual who fell in love with a nymphomaniac . |
| 3 | Some august partnerships , such as Herbert Smith , long disdained the idea of working out what their profitable strengths were and then marketing them hard . |
| 4 | Sophie got the idea of using it in France when she made a scarecrow for a friend . |
| 5 | Chairman if the company , Simon Fraser , got the idea of using the chicken litter — a mixture of wood shavings , straw and droppings — after experience with the 5 MW steam raising plant at the Torness Glenlivet distillery which uses forestry waste . |
| 6 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 7 | A tiny radical collective on Manhattan 's Upper West Side got the idea of organising political activity around a profit-making experimental encounter therapy practice . |
| 8 | From somewhere I got the idea of going to art college I 'm sure it was because I 'd read about all the rock musicians who 'd started their bands at art colleges — John Lennon and Keith Richards in particular . |
| 9 | Then she got the idea of going across to the American Shuttle . |
| 10 | That 's when Simon got the idea of making kitchen units , too . |
| 11 | I scrapped the idea of doing the music for it after ten pages . |
| 12 | I had not known Melinda when I first entertained the idea of travelling the length of the Nile . |
| 13 | It was not until after the 1914 war and nearly five years with the French army — although domiciled in England for some thirty years he never at any time entertained the idea of becoming a naturalized British subject , considering it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country — and following the failure of his London decorating business , which before the war had been successful , that Boulestin turned to cookery writing . |
| 14 | After the meeting committee chairman Lib-Dem councillor Rosemary Smith described the idea of discriminating in favour of married couples as ‘ extreme Right-wing nonsense ’ . |
| 15 | Having run through the preventive health catechism ( more exercise , less tobacco and alcohol , and better diet ) the 1979 report bluntly dismissed the idea of replacing Britain 's tax-funded health service with some form of insurance scheme . |
| 16 | I stayed in hospital for six days and found the idea of going home without him very upsetting . |
| 17 | People had rarely asked for his advice and he found the idea of playing the role of Signor Fixit 's confessor novel and strangely flattering . |
| 18 | Fortunately Scotland has always had a fine reservoir of comic talent and so I found the idea of letting a Scottish company loose on these plays totally irresistible . |
| 19 | Lydia had said that one night 's fast would be preferable to the plight in which they did indeed now find themselves , but Betty regarded the idea of missing a meal as unnatural and Lydia was overruled . |
| 20 | The Tories proposed the idea of allowing schools to opt out to enable them to get away from ‘ loony left'authorities . |
| 21 | Pathé discs adopted the idea of filling the engraved letters with white ( 30 ) , but Edison 's ‘ Diamond Discs ’ did not ( 32 ) . |
| 22 | the RIBA opposed the idea of ending mandatory fees , although it was less resistant to the idea of an independent review body . |
| 23 | In April 1957 , now in opposition , they condemned the idea of accepting nuclear weapons on German soil , thus joining with the SPD , religious and scientific groups who opposed Adenauer 's pro-nuclear policy . |
| 24 | Thus Sir Archibald Geikie ( of the Geological Survey ) in an address at Birmingham in 1898 deplored the idea of splitting schools into two sides or sections ; but the trend towards specialization proved hard to control , and to some the sciences did seem to be all that needed to be known . |
| 25 | While one part of his armies laid siege to Madrid and another pressed westward along the north coast towards Bilbao , Franco studied the idea of uniting the Falange and the Carlist Comunión Tradicionalista . |
| 26 | From the need to produce videos of Virgin artists came the idea of distributing them on a commercial basis as well through their own distribution company ; and within two years Virgin were busily developing their own , European version of MTV , Music Box . |
| 27 | From this debate about assessment came the idea of videoing lessons . |
| 28 | It seems that Leapor absolutely rejected the idea of seeking a patron through a dedication . |
| 29 | a relaxation of the regulations on the combinations of single fields in Stage II ( the previous regulation in effect required a 50 : 50 split , now 7/16 acceptable modules was the minimum for one field ( the Course rejected the idea of calling this a major/minor system ) ; |
| 30 | He backed manager Brian Little with a two-year contract and rejected the idea of operating with part-timers in the Vauxhall Conference . |