Example sentences of "[adj] a view " in BNC.
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1 | Of course , it is always possible to say that people are suffering from false consciousness ( women , for example , are continually suffering from the illusion that they are not being exploited in the home ) but that is surely too patronising a view to be taken at all seriously . |
2 | Mr. Gardiner submitted that this case was neutral in relation to the Woolwich principle but I think that is to take too favourable a view of it . |
3 | At this point in the debate a public bunfight has arisen between , on the one hand the authors of the Coopers & Lybrand report on Tuesday that warned of a ‘ fiscal reality gap ’ and a public sector borrowing requirement soaring way above Tory and Labour projections ( about which this column warned last week ) and those who believe this takes too gloomy a view of prospects . |
4 | It is too cautious a view , and the evidence is clear from many studies that the earlier the individual is seen the more likely he is to end up with a patent vessel following thrombolysis . |
5 | We must also avoid taking too simple a view of the encoding and decoding processes . |
6 | In the past it has been thought that the fault was greed , but this is too simple a view . |
7 | He must have had as fine a view of the burgeoning industry of Glasgow , as he had of the stars when he peered up at the heavens from the University Observatory at Dowanhill . |
8 | ‘ As fine a view as possible , ’ I summed up . |
9 | With the passing of time , he began to think that he 'd taken far too glum a view of the situation . |
10 | For Loeb , it had the unfortunate result of committing him to too narrow a view of the mechanisms responsible for animal orientation . |
11 | To view the constitution of the United Kingdom as concerning only Parliament , the Crown and the courts is , however , to take altogether too narrow a view and to focus too closely upon the centre . |
12 | Critics of this view variously suggest that Socialist propensity to ‘ violence ’ anticipated that of the right ; that unnecessary enemies for the Republic were created by anticlericalism and , in general , too narrow a view on the part of the left as to what constituted acceptable ‘ Republican ’ values , credentials and behaviour ; and that the CEDA , a potentially Christian Democratic party which might have evolved in a genuinely democratic direction , was actually forced rightwards by the conduct of the left . |
13 | Sometimes research itself takes too narrow a view of social changes , and their impact on family relationships . |
14 | Professor Hirst ( 1973 ) none the less feels that Stenhouse takes too narrow a view of what is meant by " outcomes " , arising from the " engineering approach " which he finds is encouraged by writers such as Tyler , for many years the key author in the field . |
15 | This is as narrow a view of critique as it is of musical response ( which in fact traverses the entire body , the activity of the ears being just as ‘ physical ’ as that of the dancing limbs or the sensating nerves ) . |
16 | ‘ Investors often take too short-term a view of unit trusts ’ |
17 | He says : ‘ Investors often take too short-term a view of unit trusts , so if exit charges encourage longer term holdings it would be in the consumer 's interest . ’ |
18 | The scenery along the Antrim Coast , and at Ballygally , is as good a view as you will get from anywhere ; the quaint village of Cushendall with its forest parks and traditional music pubs ; and then Whitepark Bay , the ideal base for the Giant 's Causeway and the Causeway Coast . |
19 | ‘ You have almost as good a view from your bedroom . ’ |
20 | The Americans were also worried by the British tendency to take too mild a view of Soviet intentions , an attitude which they feared might give rise to false hopes among the public in the West , and lessen support for the build-up of Nato . |
21 | This may seem too unprofessional a view to have of them , but even discounting direct informal reporting , they can not avoid using this information when , for example , they are involved in appointments and promotions . |
22 | The value of such catalogs is that they prevent too parochial a view of the scientific effort . |
23 | ‘ In the past we have taken too miserable a view of food , now we must say there is a glorious array of foreign cuisines which are associated with amazingly low risks to health . |
24 | Now , though so politically convenient a view is no longer tenable , no easy alternative presents itself . |
25 | The above is , however , too pessimistic a view . |
26 | In the first place , we should not paint too pessimistic a view of what was happening to the landed classes , since the experiences of this group varied considerably from region to region . |
27 | It is now clear that this was too simplistic a view . |
28 | It has been suggested that now that unions ( and not merely officials ) may in certain circumstances be liable in damages for unlawful industrial action it is more likely that an employer will pursue his claim to a full trial and there is less reason to refuse an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases ; but it has also been said that the ‘ right to strike ’ is a valuable ( indeed essential ) element in the system of collective bargaining and that it ‘ should not be rendered less valuable than Parliament intended by too fanciful or ingenious a view of what might develop into a serious issue to be tried . ’ |
29 | ( It may be objected that I am taking far too earnest a view of a wonderfully comic fictional character . |
30 | prisons , being regarded by most planners and politicians as ‘ non-productive ’ ( short-sighted a view as this may be ) , did not until very recently achieve even token inclusion in a Five Year Plan , and this came only after a lengthy battle by individuals within the Ministries of Home Affairs and Welfare to include a meaningful package for development in the correctional field . |