Example sentences of "[be] taken for [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As the great boom of the 1860s and early 1870s gave way to the agrarian depression of the late 1870s and 1880s , the peasantry could no longer be taken for granted as a conservative element in politics . |
| 3 | The degree of emotional pressure on the defendant can almost be taken for granted in these cases . |
| 4 | Empirical evidence of the participants ' interpretation of next turns is not available , and conversation analysts instead fall back on circular arguments , claiming that the conversation develops as it does by " orientation " to the same organizational devices which have to be taken for granted in order to get this interpretation of the data ( p. 120 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For another , FSP theory often forms the basis for highly relevant discussions of translation problems and strategies ( see , for example , Hatim , 1984 , 1987 , 1988 , 1989 ; Hatim and Mason , 1990 ) , and basic familiarity with this approach tends to be taken for granted by those exploring its relevance to translation studies . |
| 9 | She would never catch up with the enormous range of reading which seemed to be taken for granted by Bob and his friends , never . |
| 10 | The first degree of love in Ego Dormio shown by an unshakeable adherence to the teaching of the Church and necessary to every man " will be safe " ( 63.91 ) seems to be taken for granted by the time of the later text . |
| 11 | Companies Act 1985 , section 722(2) : Where information is held in a form other than in a ‘ bound book ’ , then ‘ adequate precautions shall be taken for guarding against falsification and facilitating its discovery ’ . |
| 12 | I think that the things that are taken for granted at home , make a deeper impression upon children than what they are told . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries . |
| 17 | ‘ Many parents are unemployed and the children have learned to go without many things that are taken for granted in other areas , ’ she said . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Your readers may or not be aware of the consternation currently being experienced in south-west Scotland following the installation of ‘ improved ’ technology at the Carlisle office of the Royal Mail whither our post has been taken for sorting for almost a decade . |
| 21 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 22 | It has been taken for granted by most workers in this field that pigeons can home from unfamiliar starting points . |
| 23 | The ability to link systems on either a local or wide area network has always been taken for granted in the world of engineering workstations . |
| 24 | The concept of the market has frequently been taken for granted in social analysis and in the construction of social theory . |
| 25 | Instead of being taken for granted as a set of explanatory standards which will bolster and enhance our understanding of the social world , individualism may appear to offer only a narrow and distorting lens through which to inspect it . |
| 26 | Patrick 's recovery , soon to be the subject of an article in the Lancet , was now , as Ludens pointed out to Gildas , in danger of being taken for granted by them all . |
| 27 | The ‘ natural ’ deviance that is taken for granted as a human capability in the postclassical perspective is precisely that — a capability , not an inevitability . |
| 28 | In the vast majority of cases hierarchical inequality is taken for granted as part of the natural order of things . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |