Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] for grant " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The organic connection between the four elements was taken for granted . |
| 4 | In the Politics the existence of the city-state is taken for granted . |
| 5 | If recovery is taken for granted , even after many years or even decades , the process switches over from recovery to relapse . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The functionality is taken for granted . |
| 13 | Hidden divisions are taken for granted . |
| 14 | One is that sex differences are taken for granted , naturalised . |
| 15 | The contrast between the bare and to infinitive constructions with bid can therefore be stated in terms of whether compliance is taken for granted or not . |
| 16 | It is surprising the extent to which published numbers are taken for granted as reliable . |
| 17 | As past achievements are taken for granted and new challenges emerge , so voters may look for alternative leaders . |
| 18 | Managers are more than ever in the public eye ; the scientific approach , in tactics , medical treatment , ground improvements , is commonplace ; floodlighting , numbered players , the ten-yard semi-circle are taken for granted . |
| 19 | Daniel Bank 's production — especially in the acting of Campbell Graham as Scooper — lacks a sense of the aggressive competitiveness that in New York is taken for granted . |
| 20 | This point is of course relevant in any field situation where the researcher is studying persons in whose culture he or she does not participate , and the need to avoid offending established beliefs and values is taken for granted in anthropology texts such as that by Rynkiewich and Spradley . |
| 21 | In the vast majority of cases hierarchical inequality is taken for granted as part of the natural order of things . |
| 22 | It could equally indicate , however , that the system is taken for granted , as a right of membership of the CAB . |
| 23 | That is , these methods , typifications , and practices are employed by policemen and women as the main resource for accomplishing police work , and their relevance and applicability is taken for granted and never challenged . |
| 24 | The thought that such armament was compulsory for anyone privileged enough to own a private car in my own time reminded me that , Napoleonic Wars apart , I was now in an age where the safety and sanctity of the individual was taken for granted . |
| 25 | An officer 's doing the right thing at the right time is taken for granted . |
| 26 | A pinch of salt is taken for granted in many cake recipes and is added simply to bring out the flavour of the other ingredients . |
| 27 | Indeed , their hire was taken for granted , and it would have been deemed a curious request had a client expressed a view to buy them . |
| 28 | In school this progressive acquisition of domestic technology was taken for granted , and we felt sorry for those children who lagged behind . |