Example sentences of "[adv] taken for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water is a precious commodity too long taken for granted in the West . |
| 2 | Water is a precious commodity too long taken for granted in the West . |
| 3 | The idea was a novelty , it illumined a new area of thought in Isabel Lavender 's mind , and she felt a little daring , a little afraid , at bringing up for scrutiny something she had so long taken for granted . |
| 4 | Even the hardened expert will find something which illuminates in an original way some concept he has long taken for granted . |
| 5 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
| 6 | Labour 's ‘ radical ’ plans are to be welcomed for the vision they bring of the kind of urban public transport that is more or less taken for granted in western Europe . |
| 7 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
| 8 | Life can proceed with deceptive ease on the basis of a faith which was once vital but has become so taken for granted that it is no longer authentic . |
| 9 | Tillyard suggested the principle of order was so taken for granted by the age that it was rarely directly articulated — ‘ the utter commonplaces too familiar for the poets to make detailed use of except in explicitly didactic passages , but essential as basic assumptions and invaluable at moments of high passion ’ . |
| 10 | Many of Freud 's interpretations of behaviour resulting from these phases are so taken for granted that they are no longer recognised , e.g. tight-ass is a slang expression for Freud 's description of an anal character . |
| 11 | It is not therefore surprising that walking is very much taken for granted by transport decision-makers , a familiarity that has two consequences . |
| 12 | ‘ Freedom from party control , as distinct from party commitment , is now so much taken for granted that it requires no affirmation . ’ |
| 13 | The school may be a strong fortress : Most schools are robust organizations with many good management practices from which anyone in industry and commerce could learn ; yet those same schools are likely to miss aspects of elementary motivation of staff and good housekeeping that are elsewhere taken for granted . |
| 14 | While I was supposed to be at the beck and call of not only my husband but even his parents , his going around with other women was just taken for granted . |
| 15 | It 's just taken for granted . |
| 16 | After all , most relationships are based on contracts , whether written , spoken or just taken for granted . |
| 17 | Moreover , every member of every discipline has a right , even a duty , to challenge , disprove or modify what has earlier been agreed or just taken for granted . |
| 18 | Interpersonal skills are usually expected to develop without formal training , or are just taken for granted . |
| 19 | But I had a very strict Mormon church upbringing and it was not exactly a taboo subject , but it was just taken for granted that you did n't do that until you got married . |
| 20 | Such aspects of life are normally just taken for granted yet , if thought about , they are at odds with a materialistic understanding of the world ; they point to something other — something more . |
| 21 | A sixth principle , more easily taken for granted by audiences , perhaps , than the others , was geographical ‘ universality of service ’ . |
| 22 | At the same time , there was emerging a new set of theories surrounding reproduction , in which female orgasm was no longer taken for granted as necessary in the conception of a child . |
| 23 | There can be no doubt that the heliocentric astronomy of Copernicus did pose a challenge to a cosmic geography that Christian theologians had largely taken for granted . |
| 24 | The modern science of ecology emerged when naturalists trying to understand how a species ' distribution is limited by environmental factors sought to develop more precise ways of studying relationships that had been largely taken for granted by previous generations . |
| 25 | For most of human history political domination in the shape of empires , hereditary rulers , aristocracies , has been largely taken for granted , notwithstanding sporadic revolts , so that Mosca 's ( 1896 ) observation that ‘ in all societies — from societies that are very meagrely developed and have barely attained the dawnings of civilization , down to the most advanced and peaceful societies — two classes appear — a class that rules and a class that is ruled ’ , is no more than the recognition of a historical and , as he says , ‘ obvious ’ fact . |
| 26 | The institutional context provided by the OEEC and NATO was largely taken for granted ; the primary focus for study — and political debate — was on the structures and policies of the evolving European Communities . |
| 27 | The superiority of virginity and sexual abstinence over marriage was generally taken for granted . |
| 28 | It is generally taken for granted ( by members of society and governments alike ) that investments should bring profit and that the living standards of the propertyless should be based on the demands of the market for their skills . |
| 29 | In this country , the figure generally taken for designing rainwater systems is a maximum rainfall of 75mm ( 3in ) a day . |
| 30 | This means that the aesthetic exploitation of language takes the form of surprising a reader into a fresh awareness of and sensitivity to , the linguistic medium which is normally taken for granted as an " automatized " background of communication . |