The phrase "obtain an idea" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to gather or acquire a concept or understanding of something. Example: "It is important to conduct research in order to obtain an idea of the market demand for your product."
An analytical study has been made to obtain an idea of the lengths needed for gaseous mixing in rocket combustion.
From I V characteristics we obtain an idea about different breakdown voltages and bi stable switching capability of such.
FPGA implementation of these two schemes has been done to obtain an idea about the hardware complexity of the two schemes.
Although no official lists of the delegates of the Balkan States and of Turkey have been given out, it is possible to obtain an idea of the probable composition of the conference.
These increased retraction forces helped us to obtain an idea in the clinical viewpoint.
This parallels Locke's attempt to show that one can obtain an Idea of space while having distinct ideas of space and of body.
We identified all homologs of enzymes involved in heme biosynthesis in all prokaryotic genomes in RefSeq of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database as of November 2010 (data set AllBact2010) and used them for the statistics shown in table 2. In most analyses, the two data sets were sufficient for obtaining an idea of the overall distribution of enzymes in various phyla.
The key idea to obtain an estimate for the value function V is to draw a random sample of states and numerically solve the explicit expression for the value function derived in Jofre-Bonet and Pesendorfer (2003) for every bidder on this grid and approximate it by a polynomial outside the grid.
Other research from the Southern African region does not mention shack fires as a separate entity making it difficult to obtain an accurate idea of the scale of the problem.
This structure can also be used to obtain an intuitive idea of which conditions favor a big kick strategy and which conditions favor the critical kicks strategy of giving many small kicks of the same particular size.
Nevertheless, this rough estimation would still be useful to obtain a general idea about functional constraints on each orthologous target site.
