Example sentences of "take [adj] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Chandrasekhar 's analysis the parent star collapses completely to zero radius , and we shall generally take this to be the case . |
| 2 | Not only did Gassendi take sense-experience to be the criterion or measure of truth , he also adopted Epicurus ' atomistic view of the universe . |
| 3 | I took that to be a quiet word of warning and an instruction to get on with the game . |
| 4 | Taking this to be a form of dismissal , Greg stood up and prepared to take his leave . |
| 5 | He took this to be a truth ‘ so near and obvious to the mind , that a man need only open his eyes to see ’ it . |
| 6 | I immediately took this to be a delusion — a sign that I was shortly to withdraw forever into a blissful lunatic world of favourite food fantasies . |
| 7 | In the last few days , our conversation ran out ; we were often silent in each other 's company , and I took this to be a good sign . |
| 8 | I took this to be a dream of fear of exposure due to approaching First Night , but Amy looked it up in her Dictionary of Dreams under ‘ defecate ’ ( sorry about that ) and she said it meant a huge windfall ( that too ) . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , Madonna took this to be an indication of the lads ' state , and took her leave . |
| 10 | I take that to be a request for the difficulties and I am going to go in to those . |
| 11 | I take this to be a decision that a release by accord and satisfaction reached with one joint and several debtor discharges all . |
| 12 | If we say that such-and-such a group of words are the " subject " or that some other group of words are the " predicate " in a copular verb phrase , we are , by such observations , recognizing the speaker 's intention to construct expressions which will identify certain properties and entities , and to assign some of the former to one of the latter , so as to let an audience know what entities are under attention and which properties are claimed to hold for which entities ; we take this to be the essence of what goes on in the use and understanding of linguistic expression ( whatever the purpose to which individual acts of communication are directed ) . |