wide view

collocation in English

meaningsofwideandview

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wide
adjective
uk
/waɪd/us
/waɪd/
having a larger distance from one side to the other than is usual or expected, especially in comparison with the length of something; ...
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view
noun
uk
/vjuː/us
/vjuː/
an opinion, belief, or idea, or a way of thinking ...
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(Definition ofwideandviewfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwide view

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Even if awideviewof periodisation is adopted, then there remains some cause for pause.
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He believed that music gives you awideviewbecause it is universal and links people together.
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Stimulated by this the author deals perceptively with numerous issues of implementation, taking awideviewand paying attention to user psychology.
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We need to take awideviewof how we accommodate in-patients.
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There is now awideviewacross industry that what the country needs is a lead.
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Is it suggested that district auditors are so unreasonable as not to take thatwideview?
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We try to take awideviewof what constitutes placing.
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My right honourable friend has taken thewideviewover the whole situation.
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Surely that justifies a verywideviewbeing taken as to its application.
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We shall take that verywideviewin making an investigation.
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One needs awideviewas well as a specialist view.
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On the other hand, we find that it is taking awideviewof its functions.
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We need to take awideviewof what constitutes our heritage.
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They have taken a narrow rather than awideviewof the possibilities of this organisation.
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There is a shortage of steel, and on that awideviewmust be taken.
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It will be a matter of high policy and of taking awideviewof the problem as a whole.
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It is evidence of good faith that those in the labour movement are able to take awideview.
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Local authorities have been encouraged to take a reasonablywideviewof their responsibility for providing ambulance transport.
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I look with awideviewat this great and growing population which has to have water.
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The economic strategy takes awideviewof the issues that bear on competitiveness, rather than concentrating solely on manufacturing.
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That committee is charged with the impartial duty of taking awideviewin the national interest.
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But whether we take the long view or the short view, we must surely take thewideview.
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Together with the business sector and others, those sectors will be represented to ensure that awideviewis heard.
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