Example sentences of "take to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is the one where a madcap home supporter gingerly urinates from above on opposition fans who are innocently drinking tea in what they take to be a gentle drizzle . |
| 2 | They were like astronauts landing on the moon and finding footprints in the dust , or like the mountain climbers in Jules Verne who , having at last reached the summit of what they take to be a virgin Himalayan peak , find a sign saying : M. Durand , Dentist , 14 rue Caumartin , Paris . |
| 3 | In the first case , I remember watching the old man come slowly down the stairs after ‘ a secret operation ’ never openly discussed but which I now take to be a colostomy . |
| 4 | The feature of Althusser 's view that repels his liberal critics is his neglect of what they take to be a central distinction between the essential and contingent properties of individuals . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | As he explains , ‘ Those immediate objects of perception , which according to [ some ] … are only appearances of things , I take to be the real things themselves . ’ |
| 8 | They think , instead , that they stand for ‘ abstract ideas of number ’ , which they take to be the province of their subject . |
| 9 | At first the narrator ( whom we take to be the Boy of the parallel poem , The Fountain ) , joins the old Schoolmaster on a joyful excursion to the hills . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All I can make out is what I take to be the outer port engine and that 's no help at all . |
| 12 | I shall single out those writers whom I take to be the most significant among contemporary anti-individualist social scientists ; I shall examine in some detail the nature of the assumptions embedded in their practice ; and I shall seek to assess the coherence of the social explanations those assumptions lead them to produce . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In this investigation , we usually take to be the most probable entry angle for an incident object , 45° , but consider a range of other possible values . |
| 15 | The authors of Policing the Crisis , although concerning themselves primarily with the ‘ mugging panic ’ of the 1970s , also focus on what they take to be the changing moral climate in 1960s Britain . |
| 16 | That actions are interpretations of movements and speeches with respect to what we take to be the intention of the actor in making them . |
| 17 | Compare what we take to be the true causal circumstance for last night , which we may label the solar conditions . |
| 18 | Allowing his appeal against the second conviction , the court applied by analogy what their Lordships take to be the principle which underlies the doctrine of autrefois convict . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We consider initially a single decision , which we take to be the level of government spending , G. This is financed by a pre-specified tax system , assumed to be a uniform poll tax , T. If the utility of individual i depends only on G and disposable income , then the preferences of i can be depicted as in Fig. 10–2 . |
| 22 | Its principal recommendation is that there is urgent need for research on the ideas that form what many people take to be the consensus of attitudes that underlie the post-war development of the welfare state . |
| 23 | If you suspect a text is quoting another text , you can check by looking up what you take to be the key word of the quotation in a Dictionary of Quotations . |
| 24 | That I take to be the situation here . |
| 25 | A company working in the Distributed Computing Environment arena got hold of version 1.0.1 last week and had it installed in seven hours , which we take to be an improvement over the initial 1.0 version described by it as ‘ a nightmare ’ that ‘ could n't be used ’ because it was so buggy . |
| 26 | So down the wide staircase she goes , past the oak chest with its bowl of white roses on the half-landing , past the Albers squares , past the dim varnished portrait of a full-bosomed crimson gowned pearl-decked eighteenth-century woman who some take to be an ancestor , though she had in fact come with the house , down through the black and white tiled hall with its marble and gilt claw-legged table strewn with Christmas cards , gloves , and glossy free advertising magazines , and into the broad high first floor drawing-room , where sat Charles , drinking a gin and tonic , which she had expected , and talking to Esther and Alix , which she had not . |