Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] [noun] of view " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The owner of the restaurant might have a rather different point of view . ’ |
| 2 | Most other trilobites have a predominantly lateral field of view . |
| 3 | The total number of cells and of labelled cells within a randomly selected field of view were counted . |
| 4 | This aspect of Richards 's work is worth stressing , because it expresses a belief which is taken for granted by a great deal of literary scholarship and criticism , and which from a more modern point of view may well seem somewhat naive . |
| 5 | Wimsatt and Brooks , on the other hand , approached the question of meaning from a more mentalistic point of view , and for this reason were able to argue that poetry related to knowledge rather than emotions , while still accepting that its function was not , like that of ordinary discourse , to point directly to things . |
| 6 | He has to give up his egocentricity and develop the beginnings of a more altruistic point of view . |
| 7 | The personnel manager tended to answer questions from a more theoretical point of view and the store manager tended to be more practical in his answering . |
| 8 | Well thank you very much , it 's obviously a totally different point of view to what we 'll hear perhaps in a few minutes . |
| 9 | You speak to a person about one thing and they 've got a totally opposite point of view from you and you think well I am surprised , with all that they 've gone through and yet they you know , they do n't see , people do n't s think along the same lines . |
| 10 | Divertimento gives you a chance of looking a second time , without much delay , from a slightly different point of view . |
| 11 | The answer to the second question requires that we look at psychosis from a slightly different point of view from that adopted in most medical literature . |
| 12 | What I have here described as the " normality " which human beings regularly attribute to what seems to them simple , intelligible , logically ordered , in contradistinction to the " abnormality " of disorderly unintelligibility , might , from a slightly different point of view , be seen as the opposition between the " rational " and the " emotional " . |
| 13 | It is certainly arguable ( and many progressive employers would agree ) that the wisest use of public money from a strictly economic point of view would be on schools , houses , and medical services , together with relevant training and measures to reduce discrimination ; in short , that the agencies which most obviously have the capacity to produce strategic planning of a business-friendly kind are precisely those which this pro-business administration wishes to bypass — central government departments , and local government , properly funded . |
| 14 | Equally , it can be argued that there is something about institutions in human societies , especially in politics , law , morality and religion , which seems unnecessary from a strictly utilitarian point of view . |
| 15 | Judged from a strictly historical point of view , Lord Macmillan 's approach is doubtless correct . |
| 16 | From a strictly biological point of view , this work is notable enough in that it establishes a new category of bacterial metabolism . |
| 17 | A second reason why grammarians should not simply ignore social deixis is that , while the study of English may suffer no obvious penalties for such neglect , there is scarcely a single sentence of , for example , Japanese , Javanese or Korean , that can be properly described from a strictly linguistic point of view without an analysis of social deixis . |
| 18 | After the Action comes the Commentary , again addressed exclusively to us : Shakespeare indeed emphasizes the excellence of the performance , as if from a purely aesthetic point of view , with Richard simultaneously producer , actor , and audience celebrating his skill : ‘ T is well done , indeed ! — Yet , as the continuation makes clear , success for the hypocrite implies contempt for the dupe : Richard 's combination of gloating self-admiration and criticism of his victim makes Lady Anne doubly unfortunate , both gulled and guilty of disloyalty to her dead husband . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , like Beccaria he regarded clarity and due process in the criminal law as desirable , but from a purely utilitarian point of view . |
| 20 | From a purely philosophical point of view , teachers who have been cut off from the mainstream of educational activity should be helped to understand the dynamism that underlies a teacher 's personal development , the rapid changes in teaching situations and accepted methodologies , and also the changes which the target languages themselves are undergoing . |
| 21 | And when you consider that it measures only 17mm in depth at the first fret , it 's the closest yet to an invisible neck , from a purely tactile point of view . |
| 22 | From a purely selfish point of view , if the policy were to indicate specific areas of the county erm where this policy would er be appropriate and would apply erm and as long as it excluded Craven , then I think |
| 23 | From a purely technical point of view , this may not have been the standard performance , but in a place almost completely lacking in a tradition of classical dance , it is a delight to watch native talent channelled so joyously and with such a spirit of challenge to the myth that we exist only from the neck upwards . |
| 24 | To a layman , the word ‘ bureaucracy ’ has unpleasant associations ; however , the German writer , Max Weber ( 1864–1920 ) who is the organisational theorist most closely associated with the analysis of bureaucracy , was inclined to regard bureaucracy as the ideal form of organisation , which is ‘ from a purely technical point of view , capable of attaining the highest degree of efficiency and is in this sense formally the most rational means of carrying out imperative control over human beings . ’ |
| 25 | From a purely phenomenological point of view , the most obvious omission is a description of the various stable periodic orbits observed , together with the period-doubling windows which normally accompany them { 7 , 22,35 } . |
| 26 | This was in a sense strange , since not only was their art far removed from true Cubism from a purely visual point of view , but their aims , though not as aggressively stated as those of the Futurists , were equally at variance with those of the French painters . |
| 27 | Because of its particular importance to the overall organization of discourse , the next chapter will be devoted to discussing word order at length from a purely textual point of view . |
| 28 | In addition , from a purely practical point of view it would not make sense for judgment creditors to be afforded preferential treatment in insolvencies . |
| 29 | In the Christian case , it led to the periodization of history , a chronological method that we still use , although nowadays we approach history from a purely secular point of view . |
| 30 | This is done in Appendix C , but to anticipate briefly , the reasons depend in essence on two facts : ( a ) Whenever a property is qualified it remains a property , so that e.g. ( P P ) P reduces to P P ; ( b ) The property of an adjective can not normally be applied to another property-word but only to an E. Thus while ( P E ) P reduces from a purely structural point of view to P P , it needs to be treated as a distinct pattern when the final P is an adjective , since , unless the E can be taken into account , the structure will be literally incoherent . |