Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the view [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It is not hard , however , to make a strong case for the view that unrest in a particular part of the empire in 1858 loomed large in the regime 's decision to opt for the version of emancipation which gave peasants land .
2 In other political states during the twentieth century , there has been strong support for the view that art should serve a social purpose .
3 In Strathclyde alone , nearly three out of every five cases were not pursued to court , a statistic which provides ‘ considerable support for the view that a policy of mass arrests was pursued by the police in that area ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 150 ) .
4 These figures give strong support for the view that the RDLS measures a child 's increasing control of language for cognitive functions , but there is little evidence of the test 's ability to identify specific areas of language functioning or its sensitivity to changes in a child 's command of specific language forms or other language functions .
5 Sometimes , though , there is substantial support for the view that the media are important in forming public perceptions ; one can find evidence for this in studies of ‘ agenda-setting ’ , ‘ race and the mass media ’ , ‘ reporting the welfare state ’ , as well as studies of ‘ moral panics ’ .
6 Beyond these specific studies there is little support for the view that the domestic theme in women 's general situation has been substantially muted over recent decades .
7 The poverty statistics are cited as further support for the view that the elderly are becoming better off in relation to the rest of society .
8 It is easy to read it with approval as support for the view that management should be considerate of the well-being and interests of employees , and would be well-advised to promote their participation in the discussion of them .
9 However , an ingenious experiment by Jim Gould has provided direct support for the view that the new recruits use the angle of the central segment of the waggle dance .
10 Further support for the view that there does not exist a principle such as Woolwich contend for is to be found in statutory provisions for the recovery of imposts which should not have been paid .
11 Subsection ( 2 ) , concerned with payments when administration orders are in force , provides clear support for the view that the draftsman had in mind what I have described as the natural meaning of the word depositor in this context .
12 The fact that most practices ' referral rates had increased in the second phase of the study provides no support for the view that first wave fundholders had artificially increased their rates of referral in the preparatory year to enable them to make budgetary savings in the subsequent year , although their rates were higher than those of the controls in phase 1 .
13 Investigations conducted among more recent groups of émigrés suffer from the fact that such groups have been disproportionately Jewish ; there has nevertheless been some support for the view that nationality is not a ‘ primordial ’ attachment and that its political importance is likely to depend on situational factors such as the degree of competition for employment opportunities .
14 This can be regarded as support for the view that such meteorites typify much of the material from which the three planets accreted .
15 The hon. Member for Honiton talked as if there were a great wave of support for the view that he and others advocate on this matter .
16 Judicial support for the view that volenti can be raised in these circumstances exists in Dann v Hamilton , Morris v Murray and Pitts v Hunt .
17 In order to provide evidence for the view that the context can act as a retrieval cue ( or exert conditional control over an association ) , it is necessary , as a first step , to demonstrate context-specificity using the control procedures recommended by Lovibond et al .
18 Supporting evidence for the view that the right hemisphere may participate in the recovery from aphasia comes from findings obtained with the regional cerebral blood flow technique ( Meyers , Sakai , Yamaguchi , Yamamoto and Shaw , 1980 ) and from studies of dichotic listening performance which have shown a disproportionate increase in the left ear score with recovery ( Pettit and Noll , 1979 ) , at least among certain categories of aphasic patient ( Castro-Caldas and Botelho , 1980 ) .
19 The use of both was greatest in both declining and growing ( as opposed to stable ) firms , and this was taken as evidence for the view that it is firms facing fluctuating demand for output that make greatest use of temporary workers .
20 A Russian scholar , Kondratieff published in 1926 evidence for the view that familiar economic cycles of 3.5 to 11 years ' length were superimposed on deeper ‘ long waves ’ of 47 to 60 years .
21 Therefore this is evidence for the view that whereas certain volatiles such as the inert gases were acquired during accretion , others such as carbon and nitrogen ( and hydrogen ) were acquired subsequently .
22 Although a survey of Russia 's dealings with central Asia in the first half of the nineteenth century concludes that " Bukhara , Khiva , and Kokand were not primary objects of interest " , the work as a whole provides massive evidence for the view that only the problem of traversing Kazakhstan prevented the khanates from coming to the top of the imperial agenda .
23 There was authority for the view that the test was ‘ person aggrieved ’ .
24 Later , his Lordship cited Amand v. Home Secretary and Minister of Defence of Royal Netherlands Government [ 1943 ] A.C. 147 , and in particular one of the passages from the speech of Viscount Simon L.C. , at p. 156 , quoted above , as clear authority for the view that the proceedings were in a criminal cause or matter .
25 His conclusion that there was no duress where the defendant could only put pressure on the plaintiff by the institution of proceedings , to which proceedings there would have been available the defence which ultimately prevailed , was , in my view , unimpeachable since there is ample authority for the view that a mere threat of action does not per se constitute duress .
26 Lonrho itself is authority for the view that pursuit of naked self-interest by criminal means can never amount to conspiracy .
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