Example sentences of "take this line " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Kelly takes this line in Towards The Death of Satan ( 1968 : ch. 2 ) , and I think there is some justice in such an approach . |
| 2 | Anyone who takes this line confidently must surely understand more about the mentioned objects and contents than was conveyed above . |
| 3 | If your ambition takes this line , there are certain basic truths that you will have to recognise . |
| 4 | Suppose the central bank takes this line of argument seriously and opts for the following policy rule : where n is a constant . |
| 5 | I doubt if many Scottish historians would take this line nowadays . |
| 6 | Henry had thought of taking this line , but the trouble was , he found , one became almost too jolly at Donald 's expense , the implication being that he , the jammy bastard , was well off out of it , while they , the real sufferers , were condemned to a few more years of the horrors of living in Wimbledon . |
| 7 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 8 | In taking this line of thought for a walk I have had to develop a model of antiracism itself , and this in the more properly social scientific sense of the word — the model as a typology of instances . |
| 9 | However , Beacham and Jones ( 1971 ) came close to taking this line on the grounds that it is not possible to perform the cost-benefit exercise well enough to obtain a soundly based conclusion . |
| 10 | William Tallack , who as Secretary of the Howard Association had experience of criminal affairs reaching back towards the mid-nineteenth century , was among those who took this line . |
| 11 | The historians who have taken this line have identified Eleanor and her eldest daughter , Marie , Countess of Champagne ( 1140–98 ) , as the outstanding patrons of this dangerous movement . |
| 12 | Ross has taken this line of reasoning further by arguing that because managers ' remuneration is linked to the value of the firm , they will make decisions which maximize that value . |
| 13 | A deferential biographer is especially likely to take this line . |
| 14 | Genetic variation could result from a balance between mutation and selection , or from balancing selection alone ; given the general difficulties of finding the causes and genetic basis of polygenic variation , it is hard to take this line of evidence further . |
| 15 | In my opinion , an increasing number of European and other governments will now press the US to take this line . |
| 16 | But to take this line is to attribute to bilinguals special linguistic powers not shared by monolinguals . |
| 17 | Most rock critics take this line , seeing Elvis 's career as a progressive sell-out to the music industry , a transition from ‘ folk ’ authenticity ( the Sun singles of 1954–5 ) to a sophisticated professionalism ( epitomized by the ballads and movies of the 1960s ) in which the dollars multiplied but musical values went by the board . |