Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some families take it for granted that the elderly are the natural responsibility of the unattached , but this is not so . |
| 2 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 3 | Because social anthropologists take it for granted ( sometimes mistakenly ) that the distinction between true-kin and affines is of absolutely central importance they expect to find that the behaviour that is appropriate between affines will be a kind of coded inversion of the behaviour that is appropriate between true-kin . |
| 4 | Muslim parents favoured it for their daughters because men were barred the premises . |
| 5 | You 've probably sacrificed a lot to get to college — do n't let unresolved personal difficulties sabotage it for you . |
| 6 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 7 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 8 | these days Do it for money , everything right . |
| 9 | The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights takes it for granted not merely that all individual men are members of a single animal species , Homo sapiens , but that this biological fact carries with it moral implications . |
| 10 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
| 11 | When eventually its report , Lead and Health , was published in 1980 , various environmental groups damned it for being too meek . |
| 12 | But many biologists took it for granted that the main purpose of evolutionism was to elucidate the precise course of life 's development from its earliest origins . |
| 13 | Mr Anderton said he was disappointed that he could not afford to keep Vaila , adding that various attempts had been made to interest public and environmental agencies to buy it for the enjoyment of the public . |
| 14 | Heated debate over the dam project took place during the 15-day NPC session , with many delegates opposing it for environmental and financial reasons . |
| 15 | So much so that in America the Black Panthers studied it for tips on guerrilla tactics ! |
| 16 | With rare exceptions the classical economists took it for granted that a reduction in the money-wage rate would be translated into the all important reduction in the real-wage rate which was required by marginal productivity theory . |
| 17 | People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night . |
| 18 | Fishing Lines : The staring eyes have it for a longer life |
| 19 | The reason why aluminium is so toxic is that living things mistake it for iron . |
| 20 | The north American Indians hunted it for food and used the feather to decorate their headdresses , but the Mexican Aztecs were responsible for domesticating it . |
| 21 | Red Indians used it for nappies , and J&J might just follow in their tracks — encouraging us to flush the bog down the bog , as it were ? |
| 22 | Petal DK , a long established yarn in 100g balls with a lustre effect has four new designs to support it for 1992 . |
| 23 | What was once the abbey 's guest-house had been increasing in size and grandeur as successive monarchs used it for their Edinburgh residence . |
| 24 | Conservative politicians attack the BBC for its alleged left-wing bias ( Newton , 1988a , p. 326 ) ; academic sociologists attack it for its alleged anti-trade union and pro-right-wing bias ( Glasgow University Media Group , 1976 , 1980 , 1982 ; Beharrell and Philo , 1977 ) . |
| 25 | It can be shown to have uses and it may well be advantageous for working-class children to learn it for certain purposes . |