Example sentences of "[been] taken for [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 It has been taken for granted by most workers in this field that pigeons can home from unfamiliar starting points .
4 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 .
5 The concept of the market has frequently been taken for granted in social analysis and in the construction of social theory .
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