Example sentences of "to approve of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted him to approve of me . |
| 2 | The 10 per cent or so of the population which votes for Sinn Fein appears to approve of , or at least to tolerate readily , the IRA 's attempts to kill soldiers and policemen . |
| 3 | Macmillan said to Ramsey , ‘ Fisher does n't seem to approve of you . ’ |
| 4 | A Minority Government will hardly be able to deal with the situation , and it is quite possible that Your Majesty might be asked to approve of a National Government . |
| 5 | Boys are expected to be assertive go-getters , so parents tend to approve of aggression in their male offspring as ‘ manly ’ . |
| 6 | At a time when no one else may seem to approve of them , and they may not much like themselves , it is of the utmost importance that teenagers should feel wanted and loved by their parents . |
| 7 | They kissed Edouard on both cheeks , they patted him on the back , they looked at Isobel hard and long , and they seemed to approve of what they saw . |
| 8 | His acceptance of what he calls ‘ the doctrine of the manyness of reality ’ , by which he probably means that reality can be conceived of in many different ways , makes it possible for him to approve of the non-creative aspect of God as propounded by the Jains , and the creative aspect of God as propounded by Rāmānuja the foremost exponent of the Viśi ādvaita position . |
| 9 | Once people recognise that through the process of exchange they can mutually benefit , they have no need to approve of the individual ends to which the transactions give rise . |
| 10 | Some fishermen watched as I worked — they seemed to approve of the end result ! |
| 11 | It would be absurd to approve of such events taking place on grey , sunless days in dark , depressing places . |
| 12 | Oliver had to be seen to approve of the wine he had himself chosen . |
| 13 | The critics seemed to approve of the poetry , although they emphasized the theatrical and " dated " aspects of the play . |
| 14 | What they have grasped is that the other is a dubiously soft touch who knows she 's been lucky so far and feels guilt-ridden enough to want to put something back into the public melting pot which has been kind enough to approve of her . |
| 15 | It was n't an easy thing , after all , to approve of any fiancée of Jake 's ! |
| 16 | She says she misses the better weather and the skiing in Czechoslovakia and is quick to approve of some of the systems there . |