Example sentences of "[prep] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he would you would really only have to verify because at the end of the day what you said about You you mentioned somewhere along there Ray about given the fact that they were inexperienced . |
| 2 | ‘ Results were as good as we could have hoped for given the difficult economic background throughout the year , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 4 | Erm now let's go through done the list so Jean to get tomorrow . |
| 5 | Williams 's ‘ It all depends ’ asserts and takes for granted the absence of any agreed hierarchies , hence the freedom of any individual to establish and assert his own hierarchy , without fear of challenge . |
| 6 | I also take for granted the fact that the water is normally heated , and that there is a mikva which is easily accessible from my home . |
| 7 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
| 8 | Lenin 's reply reiterated his argument that world and social development was ‘ uneven ’ , so that , even in the most economically advanced countries , the social differentiation between classes and awareness of this differentiation were not yet sufficient to take for granted the primacy of class , as opposed to national , identity . |
| 9 | You took for granted the presence of the Germans and the wire as ordinary citizens take for granted the law of gravity . |
| 10 | You took for granted the presence of the Germans and the wire as ordinary citizens take for granted the law of gravity . |
| 11 | They certainly wo n't be surprised by it , for the Brooklands is a logical mixture of all that 's best in the cars from Crewe : you can take for granted the leather , walnut , chrome and Wilton carpeting , and also the mighty 6.75-litre V8 , four-speed automatic transmission and familiar four-door body . |
| 12 | Like him she had taken for granted the fact that Martha would marry the miller 's son . |
| 13 | Why should I assume that in combining imperatives with propositions about other persons I can afford to ignore , while taking for granted the analogizing on which the mere use of a common name depends , the operations of assimilating to and differentiating from myself without which the propositions would not even have their full meaning ? |
| 14 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 15 | There is nothing philosophical about this in itself , but it begins to create the habit of mind that begins to take for granted the natural superiority of science and rational thinking . |
| 16 | On the other hand , he could not remember a time when it had not been taken for granted the Hall would one day be his own . |
| 17 | They took for granted the historical events of Jesus : his birth , life , death and resurrection . |
| 18 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 19 | There have been an awful lot of people though who 've taken for granted the right to go into a Sherpa house and abuse Sherpa hospitality . |
| 20 | The book , which is fierce , elegant and utterly unsparing is bound to enrage anyone who takes for granted the necessity of State funding for the arts . |
| 21 | So much has already been written about the operational side of the industry that the public tend to take for granted the workforce whose expertise makes it all possible . ’ |
| 22 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 23 | Most works since , whether detailed monographs , or general cross-cultural surveys , have taken for granted the merits of such an approach , and the result had been an extremely important garnering of sexual knowledge . |
| 24 | The incidence of syphilis itself , though a real problem , was actually declining from the 1860s while the Acts were manifestly unfair , for they took for granted the double standard and consequently sought to control working-class women while ignoring the major source for the spreading of the disease , the men . |
| 25 | We take for granted the principles that have been argued in Chapters 1 and 2 . |
| 26 | Ruth instinctively clasped Fand 's hand again ; she 'd taken it for granted the half-mortals would be hostile to one of Fincara 's Women . |
| 27 | And of course British capitalism was by this stage a very different capitalism from that of the inter-war years : a social formation in which the organised working class , as organised in the trade unions , was at least consulted and listened to by governments as a matter of course , and in which the major political forces took for granted the obligation to minimise unemployment and to preserve and expand the welfare state . |
| 28 | The overall impression gained by the Commission is that the Church in general either takes for granted the contribution of music to its worship , or places little value upon it . |
| 29 | Durkheim took for granted the existence of nation states ; indeed he emphasized the role of the state as the ‘ organ of moral discipline ’ , and the importance of national education as a moral education of the young generation , preparing them for their future tasks in the collective life of the nation . |
| 30 | The residents now took for granted the shuffling queue outside Mr Rowse 's surgery , or temple . |