Example sentences of "took the [adj] view " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teclis took the long view . |
| 2 | Instead , the dealers took the short-term view , judged that Clinton 's credibility would suffer , and began selling . |
| 3 | The other bearers took the traditional view that the right thing to do was for Yussuf to get rid of her and find another one ; but for reasons known only to himself Yussuf was reluctant to do this . |
| 4 | All four heads took the unprompted view that there was a desperate need for professional library staff in secondary schools . |
| 5 | The School Curriculum took the simplistic view , saying that the values of society should be reflected in the curriculum . |
| 6 | Pierce took the logical view that he did not expect the All Black selectors to be interested in him again . |
| 7 | He glanced towards Rain but she took the lofty view that bribing security men was not her concern . |
| 8 | Lord Denning in his judgment took the following view : |
| 9 | A respondent from a large practice took the pragmatic view that it was only a matter of time before a computer fraud took place on a scale which made the current level of claims pale into insignificance , making the introduction of a cap imperative . |
| 10 | It could be argued that when publication of address lists reaches this scale they are so unselective as to be innocuous ; the Swedish Data Inspection Board took the opposite view when it objected to the Readers Digest organisation compiling its own register of all adult Swedes ( roughly 9 million ) . |
| 11 | Many people took the opposite view , holding that Tanzanians should be able to read opinions and interpretations independent both of the party and the Government . |
| 12 | His general thesis was that the decisions from 1884 to 1945 , which held that the child when born can not recover damages for pre-natal injury , represent the pure doctrine of the common law , while all the decisions from 1946 onwards , which all took the opposite view , are to be rejected as heretical and wrong . |
| 13 | In a Note of Reservation , however , two members of the Majority Report took the opposite view : |
| 14 | The Government took the opposite view ; but now they have decided that it must be made high profile again . ’ |
| 15 | In a later case , Lord Morton took the opposite view and awarded £17,000 to a couple whose baby died from brain damage suffered before birth . |
| 16 | She records that , when his Regt embarked for the Crimean campaign and fears were expressed for his safety , she took the hopeful view that ‘ so much prayer was made for him , we ought to believe that a special providence would be extended over him . |