Example sentences of "which i take to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from the beginning very successful , which I take to be evidence of the growing sense that the established English synthesis was weakening , with a corresponding desire among students and teachers for new orientations . |
| 2 | But the way in which the very limits of its historical materialism ( which I take to be the most developed statement of the case available in English ) put back on the agenda questions one had considered closed . |
| 3 | ( c ) Another point which I take to be in favour of the theory is that it begins to make some theoretical sense of the intuitive feeling that what was wrong in the Gettier cases was that there was too much luck around . |
| 4 | From her rises that familiar scent which I take to be human . |
| 5 | If , on the other hand , I point to an object in my immediate surroundings and say " this chair " , then , unless I am deliberately lying or trying to mislead , I indicate an implicit assumption on my part that there is something out there , something external to my act of pointing , which I take to be a chair . |
| 6 | This testimonial was given by Edmund Halley [ q.v. ] in a letter written ‘ By the command of the Royal Society ’ in 1693 : ‘ I have , by Order of the Royal Society seen and examined the method used by Mr John Marshall , for grinding glasses , and find that he performs the said work with greater ease and certainty , than hitherto has been practised , by means of an invention , which I take to be his own , and new , and whereby he is enabled to make a great number of Optick-Glasses , at one time , and all exactly alike , which having been reported to the Royal Society , they were pleased to approve thereof , as an Invention of Great Use , and Highly to deserve Incouragement . ’ |
| 7 | I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's support which I take to be absolutely unequivocal support for the Trident programme . |
| 8 | The first tends to refer mainly to the military context which , while obviously important , is not what this book is about ; and the second is clearly state-centrist , and does not fully convey the scnse of hegemony where it does not directly involve the state , which I take to be crucial . |
| 9 | I began thus for to assent both to them and diverse of my friends here at home and not less to an inward prompting which daily now grew upon me , that by labour and intent study , which I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die . ’ |