Example sentences of "[pron] [be] take for grant [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , for all these differences , it was taken for granted in both agrarian and industrial Europe that society was split for its practical working into a small élite which ran things , and a large mass which was subordinate . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |