Example sentences of "granted that [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | We take it for granted that we have light to see by , natural or artificial . |
| 2 | But once granted that we have adequate ground for interpreting people 's preferences as those of conscious beings , it is not clear why it should be denied that we have adequate clues as to whether they have pleasant or unpleasant experiences under various circumstances and for some judgements about the degree of the pleasure or pain involved which allow interpersonal comparisons . |
| 3 | If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see . |
| 4 | And they have happened as I have wanted , and I have taken it for granted that they have because I know where I 'm going . |
| 5 | because , you come back here and all the Scottish women were vast and they lost their figure 's and it was just sort of almost taken for granted that you have a baby and you loose your figure , but you do n't mind because you 've got the children . |
| 6 | Granted that I have a map of my house in my head , how do I use it to go from A to E ? |
| 7 | Granted that I have spent a considerable portion of my theoretical energies over the years criticizing reductionism , should I even be asking this question at all ? |
| 8 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 9 | It showed what the weather was and how they had started taking daily sunshine for granted that he had n't got any sort of jacket or sweater with him even though he expected to be away overnight . |
| 10 | Granted that it had turned out to be only too easy to make experiments in which training an animal on some task results in large biochemical and cellular changes in its brain , I felt that it was necessary to establish guidelines to help judge whether any particular change indeed has these characteristics of necessity , sufficiency and specificity . |