Example sentences of "[pron] be take for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this discussion I am taking for granted certain obvious features . |
| 2 | The particular health needs of later life are perceived as a low priority , with older people actually being excluded from services which are taken for granted by younger patients . |
| 3 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 4 | As the sense of self , they provide the basic attitudes and perspectives which are taken for granted in relations with the external world , by virtue of the extent to which they are models into which that world must be assimilated . |
| 5 | The main deficiency of such approaches , however , is that they locate the ‘ problem of disability ’ in the individual and in the effectivity or otherwise of her/his adjustment to a set of beliefs , values and practices which are taken for granted . |
| 6 | The international comparison further helps to pick out significant aspects of family and culture which are taken for granted in one country , yet differ in another . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly Kingston 's favourite verb , it is used again and again to describe the alacrity with which his heroes rush into adventure : by contrast , their enemies often scamper as well , but away from danger rather than towards it , thus implying the superiority of the British race which is taken for granted in the yarns of the last century . |
| 8 | The reason for doing this should now be a little clearer : although democracy has often been equated with a system of government , or recently even more narrowly with a method of choosing a government , too much stress on government diverts attention from one of the most constant aspirations behind the idea of democracy — the desire to bridge , or even to abolish , the gap between government and the governed , state and society , which is taken for granted in so much conventional political thinking . |
| 9 | This aspect of Richards 's work is worth stressing , because it expresses a belief which is taken for granted by a great deal of literary scholarship and criticism , and which from a more modern point of view may well seem somewhat naive . |
| 10 | However , as ‘ men of learning ’ , clergymen were able to promulgate a view of the world which was taken for granted by most of the population , a world view which included the notion that the supremacy of the king , the privileges of the nobility and the lowly position of serfs were all ordained by God . |
| 11 | In any argument you develop , we have suggested that it is important to distinguish between views you are taking for granted , views you are directly asserting and views with which you disagree . |
| 12 | I can argue that Greenfield does not make this explicit because she is taking for granted conventions that she herself has learnt in the western education system and which she expects her readers to share . |
| 13 | Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down . |
| 14 | While war 's excesses were often condemned , war itself was taken for granted . |
| 15 | One is to take for granted that the novel is a mode of communication , and to analyse its formal features as techniques of communication ; the other is to question the assumption that the novel is communication — to ask what is implied by that assumption , and what excluded . |
| 16 | They are taken for granted and are not getting value for their money or support . |
| 17 | Citation and co-citation approaches often introduce bias into measures , and central influences are often not cited , because they are taken for granted ; they become an assumed part of the research paradigm , just as the all-pervading cosmic background black-body radiation is a palimpsest of the universe 's original Big Bang . |
| 18 | This is not because they are taken for granted — quite the reverse , for each one of them is valued more with each year that passes . |
| 19 | This should be your aim , to know your presentation so well that the mechanics of offering it are taken for granted . |
| 20 | And she had slept with Rufus in the Centaur Room , it being taken for granted she would share his bed , though Adam did not think her wishes had been consulted . |
| 21 | If practical considerations make it desirable to put RE with another subject , then the one chosen is usually humanities or social studies , it being taken for granted that religion is an aspect of what people believe . |
| 22 | I do n't count all the deer I 've bumped into since it 's taken for granted you 'll see a few of the elegant beasts galloping away over the heather no matter which hill you 're on . |
| 23 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 24 | He explained that on the Continent it is taken for granted that fish caught on a line by small boats should command a premium for the careful handling that preserves both flavour and texture . |
| 25 | It is taken for granted that they bring with them their housekeeping skills . |
| 26 | There are moments of natural awakening to one 's own beauty , but it is rare that it is really appreciated in the early years of womanhood ; usually it is taken for granted , and only lamented when it is gone . |
| 27 | It is taken for granted that men do and should occupy the leadership roles and make the important decisions . |
| 28 | Only if it is taken for granted that the preference behaviour is that of a conscious subject , does it , of itself , provide a reason for promoting the preferred end , — it would not matter in the least if there was no conscious individual there to mind about anything . |
| 29 | It is taken for granted that such taxation is related to income levels because the amount taken in income tax varies directly with incomes . |
| 30 | The speed and extent of this physical change , since it is taken for granted once accomplished , have considerable implications . |