Example sentences of "[pron] for [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 61 | Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . |
| 62 | Gulliver 's Travels went back to telling fantastic tales , but Swift wrote the book in the same realistic style as Defoe , and took it for granted that his readers would find it quite natural that at the ends of the earth men were just the same as in England — petty , trivial , grasping , and generally unpleasant . |
| 63 | Anyone who became Nawab expected to be rich , and took it for granted that he should reward those who had helped him to the throne . |
| 64 | By citizens and burgesses he meant the freemen of corporate towns , taking it for granted that his readers would understand that this privilege had in practice come to be restricted to the richer inhabitants — merchants , not working craftsmen . |
| 65 | Unschooled children , if the evidence does demonstrate that they are being less explicit , may in fact be taking it for granted that the questioner can see what is being referred to so that there is no apparent need to be explicit . |
| 66 | He just takes it for granted that it always looks like this . |
| 67 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 68 | ‘ There was a postwar cult ’ , wrote Mrs Le Mesurier in 1931 , ‘ which took it for granted that as the devil has all the good tunes , so youth had all the good qualities ’ , and faced with the giddy enthusiasm of people such as S. F. Hatton , Basil Henriques , James Butterworth , Herbert Casson , H. S. Bryan and Robert Baden-Powell we can perhaps see what she was driving at . |
| 69 | Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ? |
| 70 | He takes it for granted that in human generation the female is the passive principle , the male the active . |
| 71 | A reminder that he should not take it for granted that he would in time succeed to England , Normandy and Anjou ? |
| 72 | It is an elementary mistake to take it for granted that an act which has one symbolic meaning for us today possessed that same meaning eight hundred years ago . |
| 73 | For the rest of us , it seems commonplace and obvious that we should be able to think , imagine , perceive and remember in the ways that we do , and we tend to take it for granted that the rest of the world has the same sort of experience of everyday life that we do . |
| 74 | Do not take it for granted that Accounts will be paying up the way you want or that suppliers will stay with you if they do n't get paid on time . |
| 75 | " Why — Martha , girl — I 've always taken it for granted that you and me would — would - " |
| 76 | In discussing texts we idealise away from this variability of the experiencing of the text and assume what Schutz has called ‘ the reciprocity of perspective ’ , whereby we take it for granted that readers of a text or listeners to a text share the same experience ( Schutz , 1953 ) . |
| 77 | McDonald 's belongs to a federation of companies in the same business and the area man takes it for granted that the firm 's competitors will soon hear about the relaxed consent and apply to the agency for similar leniency . |
| 78 | So far we have taken it for granted that the distinction between ambiguity and generality is intuitively obvious . |
| 79 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 80 | And the financial institutions , subscribing fully to the ideology of the ‘ smoothly functioning capital market ’ , take it for granted that the best interests of their personal sector customers are served by placing funds where they can get the ‘ best ’ and ‘ safest ’ monetary returns , regardless of the consequences for productive investment . |
| 81 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I had taken it for granted that you would n't want a boring old fart like me trailing after you round Siena . ’ |
| 82 | Back then I think my girlfriends and I took it for granted that washing regularly was an exclusively feminine pursuit . |
| 83 | In fact , the calculation above hides a significant assumption : We have taken it for granted that there are precisely 3 offspring . |
| 84 | ‘ You are taking it for granted that when I say ‘ what they like ’ I mean sexual experience . |
| 85 | 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 . |
| 86 | But many biologists took it for granted that the main purpose of evolutionism was to elucidate the precise course of life 's development from its earliest origins . |
| 87 | ‘ Because she just took it for granted that I was there to wait on her . |
| 88 | So before that most believers , like the young Darwin , took it for granted that everything in the Bible was true in a simple way . |
| 89 | He had taken it for granted that the other reasons did n't need to be spelled out . |
| 90 | He seemed to take it for granted that she was the one to talk to . |