Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] often take " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of her sententious entries reads : ‘ Tactlessness is often taken for sincerity , and sincerity is in turn often taken for a compliment . |
| 2 | However we realise that the decision to book an Amsterdam short break is often taken at the last minute and as we are specialists in arranging holidays at very short notice all bookings made within 7 days of departure are given ‘ PRIORITY STATUS ’ . |
| 3 | Thus aggression is often taken as synonymous with violence ; violent behaviour being taken as proof of the existence of an inner state called aggression . |
| 4 | She also emphasizes that we need to study the subtle effects which expectations about gender have on learning , particularly in the case of female-male differences whose biological nature is often taken for granted . |
| 5 | The drawing of the poverty line is politically significant , since the number of people in poverty is often taken as an indicator of the success or the justice of government policy on social security and welfare . |
| 6 | The conference has three broad aims : 1 ) to examine the status of the concept of the market in social scientific analysis and to question the way in which the concept is often taken as a given in social history , |
| 7 | The role of pension funds in this outflow is often taken as indicative for , since the mid-1960s , pension funds have become the main channel for employees ' long-term savings and their overseas investment is sometimes seen as a ‘ diversion ’ of savings that could otherwise have been used to finance productive investment in British industry . |
| 8 | The General Strike is often taken as the symbol of the industrial relations of these years — and is seen as an event which brought to an end the militant trade unionism of almost two decades . |
| 9 | The General Strike is often taken as the symbol for the industrial relations of these years — and is seen as an event which brought to an end the militant trade unionism of almost two decades . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the model of economic theory is often taken to embody in an ideal form many of the characteristics of the actual market economy . |
| 11 | Again , the skill of writing is often taken for granted , yet there are adults who are handicapped because they can not write their name . |
| 12 | At the beginning of a relationship sex is often taken for granted as a possibility , but girls have to take care that it does not happen too easily or too often . |
| 13 | The provision of music and other books in church is often taken for granted . |
| 14 | Although the Scarman Report is often taken to be the central text which argues for a link between ‘ social conditions ’ and ‘ disorder ’ , the terms of the debate were by no means set by Scarman . |
| 15 | This responsibility is often taken on by the detergent suppliers who takes care of the chemicals , dosing equipment and the minor repairs and adjustments on the machine . |
| 16 | In syntactic theory , the verb is often taken to be the head of the sentence , but for our purposes , as we shall see , there are reasons for casting the subject in this role . |
| 17 | This course is often taken in addition to the morning session of Executive Course II . |
| 18 | The phenomenon of modifiable taste aversion is often taken as one of the prime pieces of evidence for doubting general principles of associative learning . |
| 19 | Something like a worm is often taken at once even if groundbaiting has not been carried out beforehand . |
| 20 | The definition of price volatility is often taken as the variance of the natural logarithm of the daily price relatives . |
| 21 | Connolly 's observation is often taken to confirm him as a better judge of literature than of politics , but in many ways he was remarkably prescient : Home was indeed ‘ honourably ineligible ’ for the new age which was dawning in the Tory party . |