Example sentences of "can be [verb] for grant " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be taken for granted that Australia will be one side contesting the 1992 World Cup final and that Great Britain or New Zealand will be the other . |
| 2 | Although children can be attached to more than one person from a very early age , there is usually one parent who is special — even if only in the sense that their presence can be taken for granted . |
| 3 | It is surely a question of maintaining an appropriate balance , and is not something that can be taken for granted . |
| 4 | Nothing can be taken for granted . |
| 5 | To behave as if such human processes produce some kind of universal , objective category that can be taken for granted by criminologists was , they argued , absurd . |
| 6 | If an exogenously determined money stock can be taken for granted , then movements in money incomes and prices would not influence the money stock and so the causality must run in the direction presumed by monetarists . |
| 7 | In genetival relation with a personal name it can be taken for granted that , has a metaphorical meaning , e.g. " the way of Jeroboam " ( 1 Kgs 15.34 ; 16.2 ) , " the way of David " ( 2 Kgs 22.2 ) . |
| 8 | The opposition of the Opposition can be taken for granted . |
| 9 | In contrast with some other forms of deviance , many kinds of pollution do not carry with them indicators which can be taken for granted by an enforcement officer ( or anyone else ) as unambiguous signs of their presence . |
| 10 | Broadly speaking , the support of Parliament for any government with more than a nominal majority can be taken for granted and ministers come to the House to explain their policies , put through their bills , counter opposition propaganda and keep their supporters happy . |
| 11 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The impression calling for the use of the bare form of the infinitive here is very similar to that encountered with the verb have : the compliance of the person receiving the command or invitation can be taken for granted completely . |
| 14 | It can be taken for granted precisely because of the kind of literature with which lay people were already familiar and the liturgical practices which stimulated their desire for further instruction and participation in the practice of the faith . |