Example sentences of "it at face " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bournemouth chairman Norman Hayward said : ‘ When Harry told us he was finished with football , we took it at face value . ’ |
| 2 | The rhetoric of the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere still talked of Japanese altruism , but few took it at face value . |
| 3 | Miss D'Arcy took the compliment , appreciated the censure and the mocking of Mrs Crump , and smiled the smile of the dumbly adoring at Hope , who was alerted by such a perfect response but nevertheless willing at this stage to receive it at face value . |
| 4 | But now , a hundred years on , certain factions persist in taking it at face value . |
| 5 | But the letter to Ritschl ( if we take it at face value , as we presumably should ) shows that Nietzsche had as yet no thought of basing a book on these subjects , although something pertinent to " Greek music drama " or " Socrates and tragedy " would , no doubt have been among the various matters envisaged for the miscellany in the " literary history or the " new ideas and views " . |
| 6 | Other people may accept it at face value . |
| 7 | Taking the moral seriously , however , does not mean taking it at face value and ignoring the potentially ironic and certainly easily seen limitations of morals of the kind just noted . |
| 8 | She felt the lie was unconvincing , but he seemed to take it at face value . |