Example sentences of "[modal v] take a [adj] view of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The court must take a broad view of the decision and not allow itself to be bogged down in minutiae , or led into the error of taking over the role of a fact finding tribunal . |
| 2 | Mr Heitmann says clearly Germany 's special role because of war guilt must end and after unification , the Germans should take a new view of their Nazi past . |
| 3 | Second , on a tour of the provinces in the summer of 1858 Alexander made plain to backwoodsmen that their committees should take a positive view of the reformist enterprise . |
| 4 | Mr Robertson said it was ‘ a reasonable prospect ’ to suppose the House of Lords might take a different view of the case , and that should be taken into account . |
| 5 | Marshall said , after he had gone , that he doubted Wainfleet could take a serious view of anything . |
| 6 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 7 | The City Take-over Panel , which has to give its blessing to the ending of the contract , could take a dim view of the decision not to proceed with a formal bid . |
| 8 | Slim Gaillard 's Civilisation begins on 22 October on BBC 2 GIVEN the renewed popular interest in bebop , it might be supposed that drummer Max Roach , who came to prominence playing it , would take a pragmatic view of two movies which helped that resurgence : the Charlie Parker film Bird and Round Midnight , loosely based on the life of the pianist Bud Powell . |
| 9 | If she was well enough to formulate a view on the question - and at the present rate of progress it looked as if she might be — Elinor would take a dim view of the poisoning of Tibbles . |
| 10 | Unlike the 1970s Gas Board , Telecom has its hands tied by the regulator : the Office of Telecommunications would take a dim view of it cross-subsidising ISDN installation at the expense of another part of its business . |
| 11 | I hope that the Minister is not back-tracking on them because we would take a dim view of that . |
| 12 | But for the CPSU Politburo in 1968 , these measures were a casus belli , and it is not unlikely that a future Politburo will take a similar view of such transgressions . |
| 13 | Telecoms lawyers in Washington are sceptical that the judge will take a kinder view of US West 's ambitions . |
| 14 | The JMU will take a dim view of any practice in which it discovers repeat breaches or a failure to meet undertakings given at an earlier inspection , regardless of whether or not these were the subject of subsequent correspondence with the Institute ( the fact that they were raised and documented at the closing meeting with the Inspector is a sufficient record ) . |
| 15 | Indeed , the courts will take a pragmatic view of the complexity of the information and the employee 's ability to remember it as a test of whether it has been wrongfully used/disclosed by him . |
| 16 | That means that the British Government could , as it did in September 1988 , simply decree that the courts can take a negative view of any defendant who chooses not to co-operate with the police , or take the stand in his or her own defence , as in the changes in the right to silence rules . |
| 17 | Senior managers in an organisation can take a wider view of problems and consequences . |