1.   But interspersed with these brilliant ideas have come some terrible errors.

2.   How do you persuade the research council or the science supremo of an industrial research outfit to fund your brilliant new ideas?

3.   I think a skiing holiday is a brilliant idea.

4.   Joanna came up with a brilliant idea for a new book.

5.   Last year, I had what in all due modesty I shall call a brilliant idea.

6.   Many experts, however, reckoned they had the germ of a brilliant idea.

7.   Nixon had some brilliant ideas, but he did not build the constituency necessary to carry them out.

8.   Their keen intellects and powerful personalities could spark off more than just brilliant ideas at times.

9.   Then Pat and George had a brilliant idea.

10.   What a brilliant idea!