Example sentences of "[noun] be taken for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the west , lichens are taken for granted — bushes and trees are often festooned with them — while in the drier east , fewer species survive , partly also because of acidic air pollution . |
| 2 | In practice no action is taken for those making satisfactory progress , but recommendations are made , in the form of a series of standard letters , where special action is required in respect of individual students . |
| 3 | During routine upper gastrointestinal endoscopy one biopsy was taken for hostological examination from the antral mucosa 2 cm from the pylorus and one from the first part of the duodenum on the opposite wall to the area of ulceration . |
| 4 | Data were recorded at clinic visits every two weeks , at which time blood was taken for measurement of fructosamine concentrations . |
| 5 | At each visit , symptoms and side effects were noted and blood was taken for haematological and biochemical screening tests . |
| 6 | On admission blood was taken for haematology and biochemistry and for leukocyte and red cell labelling . |
| 7 | ‘ Bénezet is saying that Tutilo is taken for murder . |
| 8 | Nor is it always illuminating ( or even possible ) in syntactic work to adopt the assumption which in quantitative phonological work is taken for granted : that the object of study is a set of surface variants expressing the same underlying semantic structure . |
| 9 | Elephant numbers are currently stable , but great pressure is being put on the animal which is being forced to roam increasingly vast areas to find food and shelter as its habitat is taken for fuel wood by rural peasants . |
| 10 | Today the mention of art in connection with cookery is taken for pretension . |
| 11 | The organic connection between the four elements was taken for granted . |
| 12 | In the Middle Ages much of the marble was taken for building and nineteenth century restoration has further confused the original layout . |
| 13 | She had walked down the stairs and for a moment been taken for , and almost become , Kettering 's wife . |
| 14 | In the Politics the existence of the city-state is taken for granted . |
| 15 | If recovery is taken for granted , even after many years or even decades , the process switches over from recovery to relapse . |
| 16 | A collection totalling £375 was taken for the work of Christian Aid and CAFOD , and refreshments were served afterwards in the new parish hall . |
| 17 | Nowadays , in most industrialised countries , national measures to ensure safe water are taken for granted but in several developing countries , polluted water is a major cause of diarrhoeal disease , often with a high mortality rate . |
| 18 | The differing roles of the parties and the judge in the process of taking evidence have practical implications when it comes to evidence being taken for use in a country with a different procedural tradition . |
| 19 | The slow movement in these storage basins allows some of the suspended matter to settle out , and the clarified water is taken for use . |
| 20 | Alice may enter a looking-glass world where unexpected things happen , but she is still constituted like a human being : walking may take her in an unexpected direction , but the nature of the physical act of walking is taken for granted . |
| 21 | Knowledge is again not a matter of understanding pollution control technology or the biological or chemical processes involved in water purification ; such knowledge is taken for granted . |
| 22 | Biopsy specimens from the remaining seven subjects were divided for routine microscopy ( fixation in buffered formalin ) , for silver staining ( fixation in formol saline ) and for histochemistry ( snap frozen in hexane at -80°C ) ; a portion was taken for electron microscopy ( fixation in 2.5% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer containing 2.5 mM CaCl 2 at pH 7.4 , postfixation in 1% osmium tetroxide and processed into araldite by conventional methods ) . |
| 23 | A venous blood sample was taken for blood typing , parietal cell and intrinsic factor antibodies , and for determination of basal serum gastrin concentration , which was measured by radioimmunoassay . |
| 24 | A plasma sample was taken for gastrin , pepsinogen-I , and pepsinogen-II determinations and stored at -20°C until analysis . |
| 25 | The potentially off-putting nature of these expressions of church life to the new convert are taken for granted by C S Lewis in The Screwtape Letters . |
| 26 | At four and a half months old , young pigs are taken for slaughter to be sold as pork ; at six months old the remainder meet their end as bacon . |
| 27 | Many of the basic Windows techniques are taken for granted in the rush to produce better and better Windows applications — assuming that everyone understands Windows inside out . |
| 28 | Military adventures abroad that extend for any length of time depend on the legislature being willing to provide the necessary funding and the Senate 's approval of treaties can , by no means be taken for granted . |
| 29 | After lectures from two British Airways pilots and a clinical psychologist , 80 people were taken for a short flight . |
| 30 | The functionality is taken for granted . |