Example sentences of "[adj] view [be] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attitudes to wasteland vary but the official view is that it is unsightly and depressing , contributing to an air of dereliction and offering an example to vandals . |
| 2 | The Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , said the Government had not yet decided whether to go ahead with a bill , but his personal view was that it should accept the report of the War Crimes Inquiry to change the law . |
| 3 | ( n contrast both to the genetically based view of literary history which tends to ignore questions of form , and to other formally-biased approaches which tend to ignore history , the Russian Formalist view is that it is history itself which allows the specificity of literature to be established . |
| 4 | Her more considered view was that it was ‘ the sort of house you become fond rather than proud of . |
| 5 | The problem with this kind of social Darwinist view is that it treats a social process , selection , as natural , rather than as an outcome of certain activities and interests in particular historical contexts . |
| 6 | Clearly the general view is that it will be very dangerous for us to stay out because we risk a German-dominated Europe . ’ |
| 7 | All the same , as against the scholars of the Enlightenment , my own general view is that it is precisely the non-rationality of our behaviour which marks us out as human beings . |
| 8 | The general view is that it was basic economic forces rather than the events of 1381 which brought about the end of villeinage and the enfranchisement of the peasant class ( 11 , p.29 ) . |
| 9 | A more recent view is that it was attached in the 14th century to a 13th century church . |