Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] for grant " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing should be taken for granted . |
| 2 | Parker complained next month in The Gentleman 's Magazine that he had been misunderstood or misrepresented , and that his delight ‘ at the triumph of the Gothic over its rival , the Palladian style ’ should be taken for granted . |
| 3 | If there is a single sister , there is no reason why it should be taken for granted that she should shoulder the caring . |
| 4 | But it is also emphasized that professional competence is not something that can or should be taken for granted , and that the intimate knowledge of the carer-counsellor can often be as useful as the most vaunted professional . |
| 5 | This is not to say that validity should be taken for granted : McBean and Lennon ( 1985 ) have shown that though for large groups , response rates of 50 per cent are adequate ; with groups of less than 30 , an 80 per cent response rate is required to give course ratings which are within 12 per cent of the mean for the population as a whole . |
| 6 | The dualist 's diagram ( Fig 1.2 ) therefore splits into two : Fig1.3 ( A ) VARIANT ( B ) VARIANT CONCEPTUALIZATIONS EXPRESSIONS The fiction remains the invariant element : the element which , from the point of view of stylistic variation , must be taken for granted . |
| 7 | Certainly , a case could be made for granting entry to all full-time teachers in further education , who if they do not possess formal qualifications at least almost invariably have considerable industrial or business experience . |
| 8 | It became particularly apparent that ‘ crimes ’ were not absolutes that could be taken for granted as being ‘ obviously wrong ’ in the way that positivist criminology seemed to do . |
| 9 | This may be due partly to the need consciously to establish common cultural references in a pluralistic society , whereas the historically narrow class base of British higher education meant that a lot of the cultural references could be taken for granted ; the Robbins ( 1963 , p. 7 ) reference to the ‘ transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ was perhaps a sign that this cultural assumption was finally breaking down under the pressure of expansion and democratization . |
| 10 | The navy in the nineteenth century may have been an Insurance policy for free trade , but Pax Britannica was not something which could be taken for granted , even by Victorian Britons . |
| 11 | But it may be taken for granted that nowadays the ‘ moral majority ’ is not a real ( electoral ) majority , just as a ‘ moral victory ’ ( the traditional euphemism for defeat ) is not a real victory . |
| 12 | The work she does will be taken for granted by nearly everyone , except the relative she is caring for , and there will be no prospect of promotion either , unless it be from housekeeper to nurse . |
| 13 | In this emergent consciousness paradigm it will be taken for granted that human beings have psychological capacities ; capacities largely unrecognised today and almost entirely unsuspected 50 years ago . |
| 14 | It can be taken for granted that Australia will be one side contesting the 1992 World Cup final and that Great Britain or New Zealand will be the other . |
| 15 | Although children can be attached to more than one person from a very early age , there is usually one parent who is special — even if only in the sense that their presence can be taken for granted . |
| 16 | It is surely a question of maintaining an appropriate balance , and is not something that can be taken for granted . |
| 17 | Nothing can be taken for granted . |
| 18 | To behave as if such human processes produce some kind of universal , objective category that can be taken for granted by criminologists was , they argued , absurd . |
| 19 | If an exogenously determined money stock can be taken for granted , then movements in money incomes and prices would not influence the money stock and so the causality must run in the direction presumed by monetarists . |
| 20 | In genetival relation with a personal name it can be taken for granted that , has a metaphorical meaning , e.g. " the way of Jeroboam " ( 1 Kgs 15.34 ; 16.2 ) , " the way of David " ( 2 Kgs 22.2 ) . |
| 21 | The opposition of the Opposition can be taken for granted . |
| 22 | In contrast with some other forms of deviance , many kinds of pollution do not carry with them indicators which can be taken for granted by an enforcement officer ( or anyone else ) as unambiguous signs of their presence . |
| 23 | Broadly speaking , the support of Parliament for any government with more than a nominal majority can be taken for granted and ministers come to the House to explain their policies , put through their bills , counter opposition propaganda and keep their supporters happy . |
| 24 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |
| 25 | But Horton , determined to make amends for missing out by such a narrow margin last year , moved to the front with an excellent 68 but with Coles so close to him , nothing can be taken for granted over the final two rounds . |
| 26 | The impression calling for the use of the bare form of the infinitive here is very similar to that encountered with the verb have : the compliance of the person receiving the command or invitation can be taken for granted completely . |
| 27 | It can be taken for granted precisely because of the kind of literature with which lay people were already familiar and the liturgical practices which stimulated their desire for further instruction and participation in the practice of the faith . |