Example sentences of "for granted [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a wide-ranging analysis of the world picture which almost all the old writers would have taken for granted but which we , our minds fed with different mythologies and sciences , would very easily mistake . |
| 2 | Today we take organized travel for granted but Cook 's approach was revolutionary . |
| 3 | Nowadays , in most industrialised countries , national measures to ensure safe water are taken for granted but in several developing countries , polluted water is a major cause of diarrhoeal disease , often with a high mortality rate . |
| 4 | Bruno never takes an opponent for granted but said : ‘ I saw the tape of Coetzer 's fight with Bowe and to be quite honest I do n't think there 's any problem with him . |
| 5 | The scrutiny takes nothing for granted but looks directly at what actually happens at all levels of the area under study . |
| 6 | The detail recorded on his maps was extended into his writings , where his conclusions about many geological relationships , later taken for granted but then original and often fundamental , were hidden in a mass of detailed evidence and justification . |
| 7 | Members of capitalist systems tend to take such discrimination for granted but the logic of the exercise is far from obvious . |
| 8 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 9 | These are of course the history teacher 's daily stock in trade , often taken for granted but when we are publicly called upon to justify the spending of taxpayers ' money on our subject , the most obvious may well be one of the strongest arguments for the teaching of history to all young people to the age of 16 . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ In this country we tend to take our democratic rights for granted but this event gives Cleveland people a chance to make it clear they value those rights and believe that everyone in South Africa should have them too . ’ |
| 11 | When work can no longer be taken for granted nor can leisure , and this , in turn , calls into question the hedonistic routine on which rock had been based . |
| 12 | At the other end , Bryan Gould ( A Future for Socialism ) held his audience spellbound as he charted Labour 's recovery from assumptions of unchallenged ‘ rightness ’ , once taken for granted and shattered by Thatcherism . |
| 13 | That is , these methods , typifications , and practices are employed by policemen and women as the main resource for accomplishing police work , and their relevance and applicability is taken for granted and never challenged . |
| 14 | As past achievements are taken for granted and new challenges emerge , so voters may look for alternative leaders . |
| 15 | On the other hand , in many other spheres , the most amazing developments that have taken place in just a few decades are taken completely for granted and even more is expected . |
| 16 | He 's like a dictator who 's just come to power and does all the awful violent things at once , like changing the laws and murdering people and confiscating everything — then later on it 'll all be taken for granted and he can play at being kind and good . ’ |
| 17 | That seemed to me to be taken for granted and perfectly possible . |
| 18 | In industrialised countries , such rudimentary amenities as piped water and sanitation have long been taken for granted and there has been a virtual elimination of major infectious diseases over the past century . |
| 19 | Learning from experience is such a fundamental process that it is easy to take it for granted and assume that having experiences and learning from them are synonymous . |
| 20 | Like all other words , like the word ‘ jargon ’ itself , the technical terms are changed with use : corrupted , as they are used more and more cavalierly : enriched , as their origins are taken more and more for granted and they begin to be used as metaphors . |
| 21 | Could it be , for example , that you fiancé himself is starting to take you somewhat for granted and that by comparison his brother 's attention comes as rather welcome ? |
| 22 | No woman can take her personal safety for granted and every parent must instill into their children the need to be vigilant and sensible . |
| 23 | A problem in studying language is that it is often too close to individual speakers to be observed dispassionately : it is either taken for granted and not seen at all , or is too intimately involved in individual and social identity to be discussed objectively . |
| 24 | It is very easy to take other people for granted and not to work on our relationships , but they do need continuous attention . |
| 25 | Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door . |
| 26 | They are taken for granted and are not getting value for their money or support . |
| 27 | People only see the good-for-nothing sons who hang around bars getting into fights and pushing drugs ; they do n't see the real shepherd , the man who spends almost all of his life alone , spends his days making the cheeses they take for granted and his nights sleeping sometimes only for a couple of hours because it 's lambing time . ’ |
| 28 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 29 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 30 | For if they are so obsessed with witchcraft and sorcery , how can they possibly also comprehend those empirical chains of cause and effect which we take for granted and employ as the touchstone of rationality ? |