Example sentences of "to take a [adj] view of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it appears that you did not make a large sum of money out of your dealing — at least as far as external appearances are concerned — I have to take a serious view of it . ’ |
| 2 | Just as the clinical professions can provide parents with the language and the concepts with which to take a negative view of the child , so they can provide the unwitting stimulus for the parent to enter a new , positive world in which things ‘ fall into place ’ . |
| 3 | Conservationists tend to take a liberal view of working elephants if only because their very existence depends on there being a healthy enough stock in the wild . |
| 4 | In Chapter 4 we considered the idea of systems theory , which enabled decision makers to take a holistic view of organisations and how those organisations relate to their environments . |
| 5 | This fell far short of the change which the Catholic majority wanted — which was the transfer of power to their elected representatives — but the DCAC could afford to take a sanguine view of the change . |
| 6 | Whatever the structure , it will be increasingly important for the institution to take a strategic view of its information requirements and the supporting technological structure , as well as for the library to ensure that it plays a leading role in any new arrangement . |
| 7 | And Mr Birrell claims that because the Halifax is mutual , it can afford to take a longer-term view of its strategic options . |
| 8 | But an even greater advantage of being private is , according to Davidson , the ability to take a longer-term view of its business performance . |
| 9 | And , as we have seen , for that to happen , the student has to transcend the confines of his or her own discipline , to take a dispassionate view of it from the outside . |
| 10 | In this House it has been easier for Conservative Members in particular to take a dispassionate view of the matter than was possible for them in the previous Parliament , working as they were under the shadow of a General Election and in the aftermath of a traumatic change in leadership . |
| 11 | I suppose it is quite trendy at the moment for fathers to take a non-traditional view of parental responsibilities . |
| 12 | Not many people have that kind of money , so it is important to take a long-term view of saving . |
| 13 | Despite this the courts began to draw a dichotomy between administrative and judicial decisions , to take a narrow view of what constituted a judicial or quasi-judicial decision and to require this as a condition precedent for the application of a right to a hearing . |
| 14 | It is important to take a wider view of social policy development relating it to economic policy . |
| 15 | Certain critics like Hourcade and Allard , who did not realize the importance of what Picasso and Braque were doing , continued to take a broad view of Cubism as simply a return to a more sober , classical form of art , and thus to include within the movement a large number of artists who were not strictly speaking Cubist but had been slightly influenced by the style . |
| 16 | In 1993 , the year that brings an open market to Europe , the European nations seem to take a similar view of Britain , regarding it as a strange and ultimately negligible country . |
| 17 | It all made sense , the relationship between non-Aristotelian logic and the banality of the American way of life : you had to take a detached view of the culture ; you were n't in love with it and you did n't hate it . |
| 18 | In a less dramatic and analogous fashion , soil conservationists of all kinds should be able to take a social view of conservation techniques . |
| 19 | In this book , and for the purposes of translation , it makes more sense to take a broader view of cohesion and to consider any element cohesive as long as it signals a conjunctive-type relation between parts of a text , whether these parts are sentences , clauses ( dependent or independent ) , or paragraphs . |
| 20 | Often we are invited to take a broader view of the whole scene and to discover the Holy Spirit at work in Buddhism and communism , in humanism and atheism . |
| 21 | If we were to take a formal view of the entailments of such a declarative sentence ( like that , for example , expressed in Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 150f. ) , we would be obliged to accept as entailments a set of sentences which would include the following : |
| 22 | For example , if a company has only a limited amount of funds available to spend over the next few years , centralised management would be able to take a balanced view of how the funds should be shared out between production , marketing , research and development , motor vehicles , other fixed asset purchases in different departments etc . |
| 23 | I have attempted to take a rapid view of developments in critical theory , or criticism with a theoretical consciousness , as they have appeared in British culture in the past twenty years . |
| 24 | Er but erm the fact is i if you 're a non-taxpayer , obviously we 've got to take a different view of the way you that you might invest money . |
| 25 | He seemed to take a pessimistic view of your complaint , whatever it was . |
| 26 | Clearly Shakespeare 's audience was expected to take a sceptical view of dreams as portents although attributing such beliefs to the ancients . |
| 27 | Where such a clause bars a claim if the requirement is not complied with , it may become , in effect , a total exclusion and the court is then likely to take a strict view of it . |
| 28 | With new exams approaching , it is timely to take a longer view of what the pass standard entails and of how students might be helped to attain it . |
| 29 | The B types have the ability to take a longer view of things . |
| 30 | Certainly the court can be expected to take a dim view of such clauses . |