Example sentences of "take a [adj] approach to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Wimpey takes a pro-active approach to safety and it is taken into account from project planning stage onwards , ’ says construction manager , Mike Stringer . |
| 2 | Replication Server takes a revolutionary approach to distributed database for those organizations who do n't need absolute data synchronization but the nee need the advantages of up to date data at ll of its points of most frequent use . |
| 3 | Training in interview skills takes a preventative approach to poor standards of interviewing . |
| 4 | My survey departs from sociological tradition and takes a new approach to women 's domestic situation by looking at housework as a job and seeing it as work , analogous to any other kind of work in modern society . |
| 5 | This programme takes a scientific approach to the story by looking at the advancements in science , like the discovery of electricity , that inspired her to pen it . |
| 6 | As we saw in chapter three , it takes a historical approach to the origin of factual narrative ( Herodotus ) and the origin of fiction as discredited language ( Aeschylus ) , comparing these to their modern-day equivalents in the oral media . |
| 7 | We began this section by noting that , unlike the United States which takes a structural approach to anti-trust policy , in which the possession of monopoly power is itself regarded as objectionable , the UK has taken a more open view of the benefits of promoting competition . |
| 8 | In Section 17–2 we saw that the United States takes a structural approach to monopoly , believing that concentration and monopoly power are undesirable per se . |
| 9 | Drawing software takes a mathematical approach to lines and shapes , and deals with objects rather than individual pixels . |
| 10 | Part III of the 1987 Act takes a different approach to the problem of defining the mischief which it seeks to stamp out , i.e. the giving of misleading price information . |
| 11 | In Chapter I , we emphasised that the discourse analyst necessarily takes a pragmatic approach to the study of language in use . |
| 12 | It will by now have become evident that this book takes an unorthodox approach to art criticism . |
| 13 | We should take a radical approach to the position of elderly people beyond the year 2000 , and consider whether technology can allow them to enjoy a better standard of living and to rely less on residential and nursing homes . |
| 14 | Nelson is emphatic about the frequent misconception that Berlioz is all bluster and little form , pointing out that a composer with roots in Gluck , Mozart , and to a certain extent Beethoven , would hardly take a disorganized approach to presenting his own musical ideas . |
| 15 | This study will take a different approach to identifying the peculiarities of public enterprise industrial relations . |
| 16 | This helped him take an individual approach to problems , but he stayed in touch with other workers , and his findings were always made available . |
| 17 | Business is familiar with the counter-productive nature of narrowly conceived appraisal ; educators in schools need help in convincing their employers and the government of the importance of taking a developmental approach to appraisal . |
| 18 | Although there may not be terrible penalties for taking a cautious approach to new and untested technology , it would be imprudent to make excessive investments in the hardware and software that is now offered by IBM and its ilk . |
| 19 | The Romanian government maintained cordial relations with the Soviet Union , taking a cautious approach to the situation in the neighbouring Moldavian SSR , most of the territory known having formed the Romanian region Bessarabia before its annexation by the Soviet Union in 1940 [ see p. 37257 ] . |
| 20 | Luke Rittner believes the success of the new system will depend on a balancing act by Mr Mellor , the head of the new expanded arts ministry , the Ministry of National Heritage ( The Art Newspaper , No.18 , May 1992 , p.1 ) : he must make arts policy directly but keep his distance by taking a broadminded approach to the arts . |
| 21 | Our scheme reduced the range and volume by using alternatives to chemical pesticides and by taking a holistic approach to growing . |
| 22 | No prescription will guarantee success but the cultivation of good staff/management relations by taking a positive approach to labour relations probably explains why some are successful and others are not . |
| 23 | Mr Poole says the company is taking a robust approach to chopping back unproductive non-core businesses and controlling its cash well . |
| 24 | He took a venturesome approach to the standard operas , bringing in directors like Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , and initiated a vigorous policy of commissioning new works . |
| 25 | Critics were even more profoundly unnerved when Lean took a new approach to the Brief Encounter story with The Passionate Friends ( 1948 ) , where the husband is a much more potent , interesting and violent character than the would-be lover , again played by Trevor Howard . |
| 26 | Stephan Brüback of the German shop design specialist Hans Brüback Landenbau & Verkaufstechnik took a visual approach to the theme of customer recognition , suggesting that social differences be accepted and even adopted in the definition of a shop 's corporate identity . |
| 27 | Bunce Court took a broadminded approach to religion . |
| 28 | The Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) also took a rigorous approach to the original RIE recognition process . |
| 29 | In Williams v Singer ( 1920 ) 7 TC 387 , the courts took a pragmatic approach to a particular trust and held that if income arises to trustees of a life interest trust but it is paid direct to the beneficiary ( so it never actually comes into the trustees ' hands ) then the trustees are not liable to tax on the money . |
| 30 | It means taking an innovative approach to business . |