Example sentences of "have been taken for granted " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It has been taken for granted by most workers in this field that pigeons can home from unfamiliar starting points . |
| 3 | The movement was not without criticism from those whose support might have been taken for granted ; Robertson Nicoll pronounced the 1894 Congress a ‘ failure ’ because ‘ it does not represent Nonconformity and it is wholly lacking in enthusiasm and initiative . ’ |
| 4 | This impression of " specialness " , of contingency , of the event 's occurrence being something which could not have been taken for granted , disappears in the sentence with -ing . |
| 5 | Er , twenty years ago certainly , would n't have been taken for granted . |
| 6 | The House declined to consider itself bound by the Rainham Chemicals case where it seems to have been taken for granted that such an activity constituted a non-natural use of land . |
| 7 | Many researchers ' accounts bear witness to these skills , but they are only mentioned in passing and seem to have been taken for granted . |
| 8 | Alongside the other strategic arguments in its favour , the economics of the uranium fuel cycle had been taken for granted . |
| 9 | Feminist sociologists ' arguments showed that ideas of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ which had been taken for granted as natural were in fact social in origin : these roles had to learned by young people . |
| 10 | Almost everywhere these edifices of civil engineering , the basis of life in urban Britain , have been taken for granted . |
| 11 | It is ironically at the points at which Lévi-Strauss and Barthes transgress ‘ structuralism ’ that their work is most successful ; when they produce inspired accounts of the hidden meanings of cultural forms that have been taken for granted . |
| 12 | Ever since the Pill revolution of the sixties , it 's been taken for granted that the only obstacle to women 's enthusiasm for heterosexual sex — fear of pregnancy — has been removed . |