take something at face value

Examples from literature

As between bank and bank, this use of the fingerprint in bank papers of large face value is especially applicable. 
As he fingered the green slip whose face value was one hundred and twenty dollars, one fourth of his yearly stipend, he felt relieved, and at the same time oddly reluctant. 
Just now the shares of very few shipping companies are worth their face value. 
The bank will then receive from the Treasury "National bank notes" equal in amount to the face value of the bonds deposited. 
Through the influence of a dear friend who was in a banking establishment, and to whom she had confided her secret, she was enabled to get the bonds at their face value. 

face value | American Dictionary

face value
noun[ Cusually sing ]
the value or price shown, for example on a stamp, a coin, or a bill

face value | Business English

face value
noun[ U ]
 alsoukus(USface amount)
FINANCE
the amount that is shown on a bank note, a coin, etc.:
The bonds are trading at just 40% of face value.

Examples of face value

face value
There is a danger that this appealing vision might obscure significant problems with reintegration if taken at facevalue.
In short, assumption (1) seems not to take advantage of linguistic relations among data, and takes the similarity of two contexts at facevalue.
It would be naive to take the restructuring of the security forces at facevalue.
A number of historians do appear to have taken such pronouncements at facevalue.
But this self-presentation cannot be taken at facevalue.
Such a methodology is too inductive to be taken at facevalue.
Again, the column for max lists the values that the model predicts the authors will find by taking the negative time trend at facevalue.
It is important to validate that information further before taking it at facevalue.
No, simplistic facevalue seems a better way to interpret the piece.
One may now speculate on the location of "the conceptual" in the event generator by considering the terms "background," "basis," and "heart" at facevalue.
If we do not take complainants at facevalue, how are we to investigate their claims?
At facevalue, the psychophysical data suggest that these may be quite uniformly distributed.
The market price of the bonds would be equal to the facevalue of the bonds.
Taken at facevalue the statistics seem to suggest a rapid and progressive displacement of traditionally prevalent attitudes which were unfavourable to childbearing outside marriage.
I simply accept what their adherents say about the other religions at its facevalue.
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