Sentence examples for to have a notion from inspiring English sources

We were only beginning to have a notion of what DNA was like.

Surely it's impossible to have a notion of consistency when there are degrees of abuse/humour/banter/whatever.

They seem to have a notion of a balanced diet – protein-rich leaves and high-calorie fruits and not too much fibre – and they have been watched deliberately selecting plants with medicinal properties.

But whereas for Bradwardine insolubles also signify otherwise than is the case, Swyneshed does not seem to have a notion of any additional signification of a proposition.

We also need to have a notion of what triangles are (we draw a triangle, not a square, when we phrase a question about its properties).

Anyone teaching a course at a university is likely to have a notion of what face-to-face teaching should look like through his or her experience as a student, as a teacher, and through depictions in media.

It is a beautiful thing to have a feeling, a notion and then transform it into something tangible.

Following publication of her novel, Margaret Mitchell was inundated with requests for a sequel but claimed to not have a notion of what happened to Scarlett and Rhett, and that she had "left them to their ultimate fate".

Women do seem to have a different notion of friendship.

Not only patients but the general public seems to have a cherished notion of what constitutes a normal night's sleep: seven to eight blissful hours of uninterrupted slumber.

Functional analysis starts from the principle, explained in the section Complex analysis, that, in order to define basic analytic notions such as limits or the derivative, it is sufficient to be able to carry out certain algebraic operations and to have a suitable notion of size.