Example sentences of "which be [verb] for grant " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |