Example sentences of "[is] [verb] for [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The friend he 's looking for served with the Royal Military Police in Austria from . |
| 2 | The ‘ natural ’ deviance that is taken for granted as a human capability in the postclassical perspective is precisely that — a capability , not an inevitability . |
| 3 | In the vast majority of cases hierarchical inequality is taken for granted as part of the natural order of things . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These show how what is taken for granted in one society would be looked upon as being not only strange but perhaps also immoral in another society . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Is it about time that the Government took the opportunities of our youngest children seriously , gave their parents the opportunities that they are looking for and made sure that children receive the very best start , which is something that is taken for granted in other European countries ? |
| 10 | Pupils as well as teachers should be aware of secularist tendencies in what is taken for granted in our society and in the educational world , and they should realize that these are not beyond being questioned . |
| 11 | More to the point is that the Discourse indicates the scientism of the period : it is taken for granted by the lecturer that Turner ought to paint a tree of a recognizable species , for example , and assumed that portrait painters are after an exact likeness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ The freedom to travel independently is taken for granted by most of us and only assumes its real importance when it is limited or even removed , ’ said a spokesman . |