Example sentences of "it for granted [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This was a sensible policy which would bring stability to Britain , and took it for granted that stability would mean that relations with the colonies would remain unchanged .
2 We know that , in general , the literati became the bureaucratic agents of the established political order and that they always took it for granted that hierarchy is part of the natural order of things .
3 Why do we take it for granted that education is a good to which everyone equally is entitled ?
4 Nor can an economist take it for granted that inflation will make people save more ( in the US they save less ) .
5 It is evident that Lakatos took it for granted that physics constitutes the paradigm of rationality and good science .
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