Example sentences of "are taken for [verb] in " 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 Many of the basic Windows techniques are taken for granted in the rush to produce better and better Windows applications — assuming that everyone understands Windows inside out .
3 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 .
4 However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries .
5 ‘ Many parents are unemployed and the children have learned to go without many things that are taken for granted in other areas , ’ she said .
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