Example sentences of "took a [adj] view [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The left-leaning newspaper Liberation took a similar view of the speech , calling it a ‘ funeral oration ’ for the Socialist Party . |
| 2 | The Court of Appeal took a similar view in Watson , above , when it approved the trial judge 's direction . |
| 3 | However , magistrates took a serious view of the case in light of the safety aspects . |
| 4 | However , magistrates took a serious view of the case in light of the safety aspects . |
| 5 | The other took a gloomy view of the situation . |
| 6 | Even though members of the erstwhile " bolting " party had declared him incapable of any further action and took a gloomy view in general of his morale , he somehow mustered his last resources and confounded their gloomy forecast by leading out a party of Sikhs and native pensioners to shovel under the downpour . |
| 7 | But Beccaria took a narrow view of how to manipulate the human tendency freely and rationally to choose deviation : he saw it only in terms of the effectiveness of the operations of the criminal justice system . |
| 8 | However , he took a broad view of the duties and responsibilities of being a scientist in Peru . |
| 9 | Horace took a long view of excellence ; a very rough idea of his aesthetic commitment to the tradition of Greek letters , and some understanding of the initially cool ( or possibly baffled ) public reception of his Greek-inspired Odes , might be gained if we were to try to imagine one of our own Augustans studiously engaged , while everyone else relied on the staple measure of the heroic couplet , in the production of poems imitating the intricate court metres of the Nordic skald , such as the Drottkvaett , or the Dunhenda . |
| 10 | The difficulty was that the evangelicals took a low view of the deans and chaplains of colleges , and did not expect that anything run by them would have force and challenge . |
| 11 | Thirdly , the Government took a near-Marxist view of arguments about the freedom of the press . |
| 12 | However , the Commission took a practical view of the effect of such restrictions in assessing their compatibility with the competition rules . |
| 13 | Quarrymen stopping for a pint in the King 's Head public house on their way home took a stoical view of the quarry 's recent success . |
| 14 | The Plowden Report , which was published in January 1967 , took a cheerful view of good primary-school practice , and many of its paragraphs are a celebration of liberal ideals of teaching and learning . |
| 15 | The English FA took a draconian view of what was described as Gallacher 's ‘ improper conduct ’ and he was suspended without pay for two months . |
| 16 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 17 | For example , the German authorities in the 1960s sought to offset upward pressure on the deutschmark ; as a result they took a relaxed view of the development of a foreign deutschmark bond market and German residents ' purchases ( which entailed a capital outflow ) . |
| 18 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |
| 19 | In its Brady deal they took a dim view of a proposal to encash the country 's paper at just 45% of its face value , which attracted a mere 7% of the total debt tendered . |
| 20 | The judge took a dim view of all this and told Howard , ‘ You are a man who drinks vast quantities every night . |
| 21 | There was no organized campaigning throughout that year , and Sir Thomas Gray , who took a dim view of the conduct of the war , complained that Edward did nothing at Antwerp except ‘ jousting and leading a jolly life ’ . |
| 22 | They were summoned to see Miss Rudge who took a dim view of the episode . |
| 23 | Suddenly he was apprehended by an irate Scout master who took a dim view of being woken at such an hour . |
| 24 | I think the message is there that er we took a dim view of it and we have now |
| 25 | The electorate took a dim view of this practice when the government used it to get the consumption tax through in December . |
| 26 | Loretta 's occasional visits to the Cruise missile base had never involved her in getting arrested , but she was well aware that some police took a dim view of peace protesters . |
| 27 | Nevertheless she loved it just the same but had to sadly wave it goodbye , much to the relief of her cat who took a dim view of the competition ! |
| 28 | Along with the rest of the property sector , British Land 's shares have been trading at a considerable discount to its assets per share , and yesterday 's move is an attempt to close the 40 per cent gap which built up as institutions took a dimmer view of the market . |
| 29 | The newly elected archbishop , Winchelsey , while sympathetic to the clergy , took a paternalistic view of the realm , which he saw threatened on three fronts , and urged his clergy to make a grant to the king . |
| 30 | Though the majority of those reviewing Braverman 's work took a positive view of his thesis , there have been a significant number of detailed criticisms and revisions to his argument . |