Sentences with idea
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I i - It's a good idea to plan ahead.
- Some of his ideas about democracy are entirely his own. [+ about]
- The idea does not necessarily work or convert to dollars.
- The principle for writing good screenplays begins with good idea generation and then the use of structure to extrapolate that.
- This table will give you some idea of how levels of ability can be measured. [+ of]
- By the end of the week you will have a clear idea of what your eating habits are.
- This dinner party idea combines the company of trusted friends.
- A sensible idea for both convenience and elegance is possessing a colored down comforter to suit your stylish setting.
- I had an idea that he joined the army later, but I may be wrong.
- The idea is to encourage people to get to know their neighbours.
- You may have a great business idea and plan, but if you do not have the right mindset.
- A client contacted me with a great idea she wanted to implement immediately.
- He sent for a number of books he admired with the idea of re-reading them. [+ of]
- 'Is she coming by coach?'—'Well I've no idea.'
- It is usually considered correct to say that someone has the idea of doing something, rather than the idea to do it: he had the idea of taking (not the idea to take) a short holiday
- The very idea appals me
- She's got a good idea of the layout of the factory
- The idea of a square circle is self-contradictory
- His idea of honesty is not the same as yours and mine
- He has the idea that what he's doing is right
- Here's my idea for the sales campaign
- He had no idea of what life would be like in Africa
- The idea of the game is to discover the murderer
- The idea that the same experiments always get the same results, no matter who performs them, is one of the cornerstones of science’s claim to objective truth. If a systematic campaign of replication does not lead to the same results, then either the original research is flawed (as the replicators claim) or the replications are (as many of the original researchers on priming contend). Either way, something is awry.
- The mere idea of you is enough to excite me.
- Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
- I have an idea of how we might escape.
- He had the wild idea that if he leant forward a little, he might be able to touch the mountain-top.
- That is an excellent idea.
- He gave me a general idea of how he plans to run the department.
- His ideas on raising children are certainly strange.
- The idea of becoming an engineer.