Example sentences of "take for [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | And give us back the pride and the credibility that we once took for granted as trade unionists but we allowed to slip away from us , and make us a force to be reckoned with , and send this government a message , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to tell us how to run the G M B , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to prevent us from protecting our brothers and sisters and we 'll no never ever allow anyone at Westminster to defeat the trade union movement . |
| 4 | ( Leavis , a forceful opponent of traditional literary education , indicated in Education and the University just how much cultural competence he took for granted in the student . ) |
| 5 | What Eleanor and Mary took for granted in their lives Anna was just creeping towards , as a novice . |
| 6 | What we are condoning , or rather , taking for granted in our film , is a tunnel , illegal and therefore officially unacknowledged , completed in 1955 , dug by the Americans and equipped by the British . |
| 7 | But Horton , determined to make amends for missing out by such a narrow margin last year , moved to the front with an excellent 68 but with Coles so close to him , nothing can be taken for granted over the final two rounds . |
| 8 | Instead of being taken for granted as a set of explanatory standards which will bolster and enhance our understanding of the social world , individualism may appear to offer only a narrow and distorting lens through which to inspect it . |
| 9 | The ‘ natural ’ deviance that is taken for granted as a human capability in the postclassical perspective is precisely that — a capability , not an inevitability . |
| 10 | This means that the aesthetic exploitation of language takes the form of surprising a reader into a fresh awareness of and sensitivity to , the linguistic medium which is normally taken for granted as an " automatized " background of communication . |
| 11 | At the beginning of a relationship sex is often taken for granted as a possibility , but girls have to take care that it does not happen too easily or too often . |
| 12 | In the vast majority of cases hierarchical inequality is taken for granted as part of the natural order of things . |
| 13 | For Edward , India had lost the only element he had liked in it — the easy affection of the Indians that he had taken for granted as a child — and gained nothing in compensation . |
| 14 | As the great boom of the 1860s and early 1870s gave way to the agrarian depression of the late 1870s and 1880s , the peasantry could no longer be taken for granted as a conservative element in politics . |
| 15 | Comparative study ( of different languages , dialects , styles , etc. ) can make explicit what is usually taken for granted about language . |
| 16 | I think that the things that are taken for granted at home , make a deeper impression upon children than what they are told . |
| 17 | Now , looking back with the wisdom of adulthood , she could appreciate what she had taken for granted at the time . |
| 18 | Monarchy was as widely taken for granted at the end of the nineteenth century as is universal suffrage today . |
| 19 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 20 | As she took her wedding vows , Diana was saying goodbye to the life that she had taken for granted for twenty years . |
| 21 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 22 | What , what appear to be , as I said , naive questions very often are most penetrating and bring us up short because they involve things we 've taken for granted for many , many years and perhaps ought to look at again . |
| 23 | Of course some policemen and women , at the other extreme , welcomed the research as an opportunity to talk about issues which are so often taken for granted among colleagues and family that they are not topics of conversation . |
| 24 | For a real account of the BCR we must wait for Martin Davies 's definitive history , but although I have only included some of the anecdotes which crop up again and again , and a few photographs , many BCRS member have given invaluable assistance , and the presence of the Railway taken for granted throughout the time covered by ‘ BISHOP 'S CASTLE WELL-REMEMBERED ’ . |
| 25 | The transformation of Britain that has taken place in the past 13 years is too readily taken for granted by some of those who have most richly reaped the rewards : the new home owners , the new share-holders , the employees freed from the shackles of militant trade unionism , the NHS patients who have felt the benefits of fund-holding GPs and self-administered hospitals , parents who have witnessed their children thrive in grant-maintained schools . |
| 26 | Patrick 's recovery , soon to be the subject of an article in the Lancet , was now , as Ludens pointed out to Gildas , in danger of being taken for granted by them all . |
| 27 | I find it to be an irritating reminder that the solid rail service taken for granted by this part of the country , the one that provides an essential lifeline spring , summer , autumn and winter , is eventually going to be lost to these seasonal theme-park trucks full of florid , truffle-guzzling lounge lizards . |
| 28 | The superiority of the abstract over the concrete , the theoretical over the practical , was taken for granted by the Greeks , and also by all education based on the classical model . |
| 29 | It is simply taken for granted by the public that curriculum and examinations go together . |
| 30 | 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 . |