Example sentences of "what i take to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not justice ; it is not even a theory of morality , since it rejects a consideration of what I take to be central to moral theory , the sense of each person being a member of a community with , inevitably , obligations and duties to others , as well as rights . |
| 2 | That is what I take to be the goal of all writing : to open up fenced-off plots , to water tracts of land that have dried out , to make accessible thoughts and feelings that readers never knew they had or thought they were not allowed to have . |
| 3 | All I can make out is what I take to be the outer port engine and that 's no help at all . |
| 4 | In this chapter I therefore discuss what I take to be the strongest case for absolute holism in contemporary social science , the case expounded by Louis Althusser . |
| 5 | This being so , it is all the more important to end by underlining what I take to be gained by the acceptance of my proposal that concessive holism should be adopted as the most fruitful approach to social explanation . |
| 6 | I have merely tried to unravel what I take to be some of the main underlying oversimplifications which have informed educational practices in the field of ‘ race ’ and education , whether state-led or self-consciously oppositionist . |
| 7 | I use it in what I take to be its essential sense , to mean that both the society as a whole and the system of government were organized on a principle of freedom of choice … |
| 8 | One well-known and well-publicised attempt in recent philosophy to address this problem in a " non-reductivist " spirit has gone under the name of Existentialism , and I shall now comment briefly on what I take to be the main features of the existentialist approach before outlining my own position . |
| 9 | Over the cream pebble-dash and olive grey windows of the great house , some turrets may yet be seen beneath what I take to be the original small roof-slates ; and a plaque high on the wall — ; ‘ 1635 RE ’ with what looks like ‘ ID ’ ; and a couple of lions guarding the door . |