Example sentences of "take for grant " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a book which takes for granted , and which has doubts about , the mingling of peoples , and it is a book which takes pride in its chosen people — Salim 's people and , in some measure , Naipaul 's . |
| 2 | Williams 's ‘ It all depends ’ asserts and takes for granted the absence of any agreed hierarchies , hence the freedom of any individual to establish and assert his own hierarchy , without fear of challenge . |
| 3 | The question takes for granted that there is no ‘ divine ’ source from which a ready-made human conscience will be provided for each new-born child . |
| 4 | But I can not deny that the literature chapter takes for granted major assumptions about the value of great literature in the curriculum , and does not engage with the many recent books which have challenged this belief ( for example , Brian Doyle 's English and Englishness [ 1989 ] ) . |
| 5 | ‘ This year it 'll be the family Christmas I suppose everyone takes for granted . |
| 6 | In both these cases , there is a conformity in coverage which takes for granted a certain perspective on these issues . |
| 7 | Consider , for example , the introduction and successful operation of the wide bodied jets which everyone takes for granted today . |
| 8 | As social anthropologists our major concern is with those ideas and ways of behaving which a given community takes for granted as the ‘ natural ’ order of things . |
| 9 | Oral speech depends on context to communicate meaning ; it is therefore egocentric and takes for granted a common point of view as though no others were possible . |
| 10 | But what is important in the episode is what the narrator takes for granted : that when men of standing disputed , arbitration was hard to arrange , and often immediately unacceptable to the party which felt itself the loser by the judgement , even where monetary compensation was offered to soften the blow . |
| 11 | The book , which is fierce , elegant and utterly unsparing is bound to enrage anyone who takes for granted the necessity of State funding for the arts . |
| 12 | Talcott Parsons has proposed the very influential theory that of all other available institutions it is the classroom that above all converts an incomplete person into a member of the kind of society Parsons takes for granted as natural , that is , a kind of society where to be social is to be interested in achievement . |
| 13 | Simmel tends towards a Romantic style of analysis which takes for granted a primitive undifferentiated nature , and various latent versions of totality , for example in art and aesthetics as models of utopian , if transient , resolutions . |
| 14 | ‘ My job means having to give up a lot of things that everyone else takes for granted in their life , and you 've always known that , Annabel , ’ Scott again reminded her . |
| 15 | The overall impression gained by the Commission is that the Church in general either takes for granted the contribution of music to its worship , or places little value upon it . |
| 16 | And takes for granted — summer on the skin , |
| 17 | But it needs to be said that it is not a belief that Richards himself takes for granted . |
| 18 | Without entering upon a detailed examination of this idea , let me simply observe , in the present context , that it too takes for granted that democracy , in the instances considered , has reached a stage of more or less completed development , and can thus be contrasted , as a distinct type of political system , with other types such as totalitarianism , dictatorship or ‘ unstable ’ democracy . |
| 19 | The discontinuity with religion which he saw as the dilemma of modern art he takes for granted , and even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century art confirms this . |
| 20 | But that is because he is a physical scientist , who takes for granted the biologists " theory of evolution . |
| 21 | The proscription is , of course , a legal convention which we would normally take for granted , but is , in this context , inconsistent with the SI anti-copyright policy and , in the light of the Lautréamont axiom : ‘ Plagiarism is necessary — progress implies it , ’ which Francis cites on page 19 , is an unintended irony . |
| 22 | For the listener , there is nothing to keep her to this role unless she happens to have a partner whose talk is engaging ( or , of course , there may be extrinsic pressures of , for example , wanting to please teacher , which because it is always a possible element in children 's work I will not keep referring to but will take for granted ) . |
| 23 | Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life , which we should never take for granted , and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please , with none to forbid or criticise . |
| 24 | We should never take for granted that we will find our happiness in God alone , as though it was ours by right to have . |
| 25 | The scientists could not even take for granted that human factors were causing the bay to deteriorate ; cryptic changes in the natural world could , for all that was known , have been responsible . |
| 26 | They certainly wo n't be surprised by it , for the Brooklands is a logical mixture of all that 's best in the cars from Crewe : you can take for granted the leather , walnut , chrome and Wilton carpeting , and also the mighty 6.75-litre V8 , four-speed automatic transmission and familiar four-door body . |
| 27 | The gear selector is on the centre console ( which you ca n't take for granted , even today ) , while the automatic ride control is also borrowed from other models . |
| 28 | Such gentlemen freeholders could be manipulated , but they rarely considered themselves the hired retainers of a politician , whose support the latter could take for granted . |
| 29 | An Italian holiday has special qualities — quality food and wine , and accommodation you can , of course , take for granted . |
| 30 | But Stainforth understands mountains as well , and while they also have their own structure , they are changelings which we can not take for granted . |