Example sentences of "who take a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
| 2 | I hope that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will forgive me if I answer first the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster , North ( Sir J. Wheeler ) , who supported the Government 's position , before answering the remarks made by Opposition Members , who took a rather different line . |
| 3 | But the ministry was anyway not run by the maiden aunts of the BBFC but by members of the intelligentsia who took a reasonably broad view of wartime cinema , and recognized that effective propaganda was subtle propaganda . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it was sometimes difficult to be certain of this , for there were some lairds who took a very unfavourable view of such officers , and there was a danger that a politician who desired to win a friend might make a mortal enemy . |
| 5 | This was not to the liking of the Social Democrats , who took a more nationalist position , placing national unification above Western allegiance in their order of priorities , and advocating a spurious ‘ third way ’ between East and West , a kind of German ‘ special path ’ . |
| 6 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 7 | The Daily Graphic ( 30 March 1898 ) described the fate of one young man , Thomas Duff , who had been unlucky enough to be charged with ‘ riding a tricycle to the common danger ’ and to encounter a magistrate who took an extremely dim view of the matter . |
| 8 | A librarian at Westminster , who took an extremely responsible attitude to dispersals , remarked in the course of an article : |
| 9 | Feminists who take a more woman-centred approach have developed a positive view of women 's biology , and have based a full theory of gender relations on it ( see Chapter 5 ) . |