It is true that on first arriving at the scene of the crime the detective may have no pre-conceived ideas.

Science requires disinterested observation, rather than pre-conceived ideas supported with cherry-picked data.

Gordon, for the twentieth time that day, was smitten breathless by the sudden, complete destruction of his pre-conceived ideas.

A situation has come up which we feel you should study, not only in person, but also without advance information or pre-conceived ideas.

The writer is instructed to keep writing until the time period ends, which encourages him/her to keep writing past the pre-conceived ideas and hopefully find a more interesting topic.

Positive characteristics, for example being warm, extrovert or funny, scored far lower, showing people have pre-conceived ideas about how a person with a learning disability will think and behave.

I'm more annoyed about the idea of someone who holds pre-conceived ideas about a product then reviewing a system that contains that product.

He challenges the reader to draw theology from the biblical text rather than to allow our pre-conceived ideas about God to distort our reading of the Old Testament.

Yet what we find here is that, owing no doubt to pre-conceived ideas or to some fixation, there is a reaction against the EU getting involved in prevention.

Several pre-conceived ideas about the characteristics of life outside of Earth have been questioned.