Example sentences of "[adv] for granted " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be , for example , that you fiancé himself is starting to take you somewhat for granted and that by comparison his brother 's attention comes as rather welcome ? |
| 2 | Headmasters could take less for granted . |
| 3 | Most work situations provide people with a social network that is often taken entirely for granted , and which is missed only after retirement . |
| 4 | And I had taken it entirely for granted . |
| 5 | Failure to meet these expectations would have been dangerous , especially as his army consisted partly of the forces of independent warlords like Thorkell the Tall and the Norwegian Earl Eric of Lade , whose loyalty could not be taken entirely for granted . |
| 6 | The discussion has several times strayed into semiological terminology and it has taken the nature of ideology largely for granted ; both signification and ideology in popular music demand detailed study . |
| 7 | Like all other words , like the word ‘ jargon ’ itself , the technical terms are changed with use : corrupted , as they are used more and more cavalierly : enriched , as their origins are taken more and more for granted and they begin to be used as metaphors . |
| 8 | In the second and third years the course comes together as it concentrates on communications as a discipline , taking the discourse of sociology and psychology much more for granted . |
| 9 | The sad thing is that men take one 's social accomplishments totally for granted . ’ |
| 10 | Mixing personal family stories with service in the RAF Technical Branch and the Directorate of Radar , this is a very personal look at the pioneering days of radar , a facility that today is taken totally for granted . |
| 11 | She felt the desolation of a child in a strange house , saddened by the alien nature of the sandwiches , bewildered by the peculiar quality of the trifle which the family of the house take greedily for granted , almost afraid of the unfamiliar shape of the jelly , choked by the frogspawn lump of unshed tears , past which not one small sweetie can negotiate a passage . |
| 12 | It is all happening too fast for us to take anything quite for granted , neither becoming blase about the sight of ossified regimes crumbling at the knees , nor entirely ruling out the thought of some treacherous counter-current . |
| 13 | It is all happening too fast for us to take anything quite for granted , neither becoming blase about the sight of ossified regimes crumbling at the knees , nor entirely ruling out the thought of some treacherous counter-current . |
| 14 | She never came to take her membership quite for granted : she had admired the in-people for too long ever to feel herself to be truly one of them . |
| 15 | The disruption which farmers and landowners have faced has been of a somewhat different kind : they have suffered a loss of their traditional authority over the village population which they once took virtually for granted . |
| 16 | These statistics expressed in terms of expectation of life testify even more vividly to the distance Western society has travelled in being able to take the survival of our children almost for granted . |
| 17 | On the other hand , in many other spheres , the most amazing developments that have taken place in just a few decades are taken completely for granted and even more is expected . |
| 18 | The main thing is to try to reassess all those long familiar features in a room that are taken completely for granted because you are so used to them . |