Example sentences of "we take to [be] " in BNC.

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1 What do we take to be the difference between yesterday and last night , on the one hand , and , on the other , another instance of constant conjunction , the one comprising the true causal circumstance and last night ?
2 Yet we consoled ourselves with what we took to be a furtive glint of triumph in Ranteallo 's eyes as he accepted our pig money , and swore to us that he would not burn the house down before we could make it back from filming the king 's burial in the death-cliffs .
3 The objector has it that what we taken to be effects need not be necessitated .
4 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 .
5 His ‘ robust realism ’ results from the fact that he can not attain the standpoint of transcendental reflection from which he can notice what we take to be idealist tendencies in his work .
6 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 .
7 That actions are interpretations of movements and speeches with respect to what we take to be the intention of the actor in making them .
8 The third concept we take to be well in advance of what is practically possible at the moment , though the long-term impact of the project and of such innovations as GCSE remains a matter of conjecture .
9 Compare what we take to be the true causal circumstance for last night , which we may label the solar conditions .
10 Do all of what we take to be causal circumstances and causes precede their effects ?
11 The premises of the inference are a large number of statements of the kind , ‘ Raven x was observed to be black at time t ’ , and all these we take to be true .
12 In Amalgamemnon , Xorandor , and Verbivore the fictional or mythic nature of the simulations and abstractions we take to be fact is demonstrated by simulations of these simulations which reveal them to be discursive constructs .
13 What gives this paper its particular importance in a philosophical sense is that it implicitly raises questions about the nature of knowledge in social work — or what we take to be knowledge about social work .
14 From these equations we can solve for the prices p x , and p y as functions of the wage , which we take to be fixed at unity .
15 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 .
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