Example sentences of "take a [adj] view of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a company evolves to Stage 4 it ceases to view geographical units as necessarily important in marketing terms and instead takes a global view of its marketing , financing and operations . |
| 2 | Debora MacKenzie takes a jaded view of European elections |
| 3 | Takes a restricted view of commerce but is full of factual information . |
| 4 | He takes a broad view of this symphony and shapes it superbly according to his own very distinctive view of it . |
| 5 | As the Foreign Secretary pointed out this afternoon , it increasingly takes a co-ordinated view of foreign policy issues . |
| 6 | The new album takes a humorous view of rock 'n' roll lifestyles in Los Angeles . |
| 7 | Last April he outpointed the fancied George Collins , and he takes a dim view of last week 's easy win by Laing over Collins at Reading . |
| 8 | Left at the side of the rutted washboard that has claimed so many victims , it was a poignant reminder that the desert takes a dim view of those who treat it with such disdain . |
| 9 | Public NME takes a dim view of types who persecute innocent human beings who just happen to enjoy the feel of women 's lingerie against their bollocks , but did find it quite funny that the be-wigged ‘ bomb victims ’ were so convinced it was an aerial attack they raced into a nearby hotel to beat up a perfectly innocent couple snogging on a balcony . |
| 10 | The first unit takes a macroscopic view of basic theatre spaces and playing areas from the point of view of their influence on the nature of performance and presentational style . |
| 11 | Donna Landry , however , takes a different view of this passage , which she believes is purely satirical , ‘ … a riot of comically conspicuous consumption that wastes resources in order to satisfy human greed ’ [ Landry , 109 ] . |
| 12 | Jonathan Swift in his Directions to Servants takes a sceptical view of servants ' moral propensities . |
| 13 | Even if one takes a sceptical view of the applicability of the laws of war to nuclear weapons , it does not follow that the laws of war are irrelevant in the nuclear age . |
| 14 | Hall takes a Schumpeterian view of long waves and translates it into a geographical context . |
| 15 | Marshall said , after he had gone , that he doubted Wainfleet could take a serious view of anything . |
| 16 | For example , in stimulating the development of community formularies , or in setting indicative budgets , do they take a broad view of cost ( beyond the price of the medicines themselves ) and do they consider the relative effectiveness of medicines ? |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The system does not take a zero-based view of needs but has an incremental approach as the formula is replicated from year to year . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Spike is an amateur gynaecologist who has broken the code and does not deserve a delicacy like Little Liz , a Soho Bunny if ever there was one , all ankle-boots and skin-tight black ; it 's enough to make a judge take a dim view of things . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I hope that the Minister is not back-tracking on them because we would take a dim view of that . |