Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] taken for " in BNC.

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1 He had already accepted the need for reunion of churches in South India and agreed with Archbishop Michael Ramsey 's view that risks should be taken for the sake of Gospel .
2 Nothing should be taken for granted .
3 Parker complained next month in The Gentleman 's Magazine that he had been misunderstood or misrepresented , and that his delight ‘ at the triumph of the Gothic over its rival , the Palladian style ’ should be taken for granted .
4 If there is a single sister , there is no reason why it should be taken for granted that she should shoulder the caring .
5 But it is also emphasized that professional competence is not something that can or should be taken for granted , and that the intimate knowledge of the carer-counsellor can often be as useful as the most vaunted professional .
6 Where the terrain becomes so steep that the leader no longer has a reasonable likelihood of controlling a slide , then belays of some form should be taken for the seconds .
7 Security measures should be taken for the safe custody of confidential and important files ; therefore , cabinets should have locks , with the keys kept by a responsible official .
8 This is not to say that validity should be taken for granted : McBean and Lennon ( 1985 ) have shown that though for large groups , response rates of 50 per cent are adequate ; with groups of less than 30 , an 80 per cent response rate is required to give course ratings which are within 12 per cent of the mean for the population as a whole .
9 Care should be taken for claims relating solely to loss of cash .
10 It is not feasible to observe all the pupils in a class of 30 , so a sample must be taken for observation .
11 The dualist 's diagram ( Fig 1.2 ) therefore splits into two : Fig1.3 ( A ) VARIANT ( B ) VARIANT CONCEPTUALIZATIONS EXPRESSIONS The fiction remains the invariant element : the element which , from the point of view of stylistic variation , must be taken for granted .
12 Reasonable care must be taken for the employee 's safety ( Latimer v AEC [ 1953 ] AC 643 .
13 If he was n't careful , it might be taken for a bid , Mungo thought .
14 Two pence per half-year might be taken for each cart , and one halfpenny for each pack-horse .
15 He did not want to , but on the other hand … it might be taken for romantic , it might impress .
16 If he ever goes in with Tyson , he could be taken for a foolish dog .
17 If he ever goes in with Tyson , he could be taken for a foolish dog .
18 He has a blessing to give his eldest and favourite son , but it is a poor thing compared with Jacob 's , so poor it is hardly recognizable as a blessing and could be taken for a curse :
19 Either way , we are so alike , we could be taken for sisters — everyone says so . ’
20 It became particularly apparent that ‘ crimes ’ were not absolutes that could be taken for granted as being ‘ obviously wrong ’ in the way that positivist criminology seemed to do .
21 This may be due partly to the need consciously to establish common cultural references in a pluralistic society , whereas the historically narrow class base of British higher education meant that a lot of the cultural references could be taken for granted ; the Robbins ( 1963 , p. 7 ) reference to the ‘ transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ was perhaps a sign that this cultural assumption was finally breaking down under the pressure of expansion and democratization .
22 Mrs Kettering wanted three girls and a fortyish couple so that they could sit by candlelight on their terrace , so that she could be taken for Sandra and Hugh for … but what was Mr Kettering 's Christian name ?
23 ‘ ( 1 ) If on the application of the Secretary of State the court is satisfied — ( a ) that there is a reasonable likelihood that any person will contravene any provision of — ( i ) rules or regulations made under this Chapter ; ( ii ) sections 47 , 56 , 57 , or 59 above ; … ( c ) that any person has contravened any such provision or condition and that there are steps that could be taken for remedying the contravention , the court may grant an injunction restraining the contravention … or , as the case may be , make an order requiring that person and any other person … knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court may direct to remedy it .
24 The second precondition is that ‘ there are steps that could be taken for remedying the contravention . ’
25 The navy in the nineteenth century may have been an Insurance policy for free trade , but Pax Britannica was not something which could be taken for granted , even by Victorian Britons .
26 She was looking , not at a twenty-one-year-old girl , a young and beautiful twenty-one-year-old girl , but a twenty-one-year-old girl that could be taken for thirty , and who was drinking a mixture of brandy and port to ease the strain of her life .
27 Photographs may be taken for PRIVATE USE .
28 But it may be taken for granted that nowadays the ‘ moral majority ’ is not a real ( electoral ) majority , just as a ‘ moral victory ’ ( the traditional euphemism for defeat ) is not a real victory .
29 German may be taken for one year , as part of an MA(General) curriculum or as an outside subject for a degree in another honours group ( perhaps English , or History , or Philosophy ) , or as a progressive course lasting for two , three or four years within the MA(Honours) or the MA(General) .
30 Companies Act 1985 , section 722(2) : Where information is held in a form other than in a ‘ bound book ’ , then ‘ adequate precautions shall be taken for guarding against falsification and facilitating its discovery ’ .
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