Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] at face " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary 's marriage to Henry had certainly taken place by February 1381 , and Thomas might well have done what he could to prevent her marrying , but Froissart casts Thomas as a villain in his account of English politics in Richard II 's reign , and not every detail in the story should necessarily be accepted at face value . |
| 2 | This gave Parliament still more control in that the comptroller 's report need no longer be taken at face value , but could be subjected to detailed investigation by the PAC . |
| 3 | It can be seen from this that the data can not always be taken at face value and that users need to be warned of these problems . |
| 4 | The rhetoric of pro-Zionism or criticism of conspiracy theory should not simply be interpreted at face value . |
| 5 | These actually come down to common sense , but it still needs to be stressed that the successful study of coinage , as any other historical discipline , should be based on as full a collection of the evidence as possible as well as an awareness that this evidence should never be taken at face value . |