Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] take for grant " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained that on the Continent it is taken for granted that fish caught on a line by small boats should command a premium for the careful handling that preserves both flavour and texture . |
| 2 | In any argument you develop , we have suggested that it is important to distinguish between views you are taking for granted , views you are directly asserting and views with which you disagree . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While war 's excesses were often condemned , war itself was taken for granted . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , as ‘ men of learning ’ , clergymen were able to promulgate a view of the world which was taken for granted by most of the population , a world view which included the notion that the supremacy of the king , the privileges of the nobility and the lowly position of serfs were all ordained by God . |
| 8 | In this discussion I am taking for granted certain obvious features . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By the time that Captain Cook was engaged in his voyages of exploration in the Pacific in the late-eighteenth century it was taken for granted that the inhabitants of the newly discovered islands would be men and not monsters , but cannibalism was still seen as somehow sub-human . |
| 12 | The main deficiency of such approaches , however , is that they locate the ‘ problem of disability ’ in the individual and in the effectivity or otherwise of her/his adjustment to a set of beliefs , values and practices which are taken for granted . |