Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [verb] for [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the Politics the existence of the city-state is taken for granted . |
| 3 | If recovery is taken for granted , even after many years or even decades , the process switches over from recovery to relapse . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The functionality is taken for granted . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the vast majority of cases hierarchical inequality is taken for granted as part of the natural order of things . |
| 11 | It could equally indicate , however , that the system is taken for granted , as a right of membership of the CAB . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | An officer 's doing the right thing at the right time is taken for granted . |
| 14 | 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 . |