Example sentences of "[pron] for [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | I took it for granted that I could associate with people from all walks of life , from every background . |
| 32 | Jack had gone to India soon afterwards , and although Susan wore no ring they were definitely engaged , and everyone took it for granted that they would marry as soon as circumstances would permit . |
| 33 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 34 | He took it for granted that people would fall in love with Eva . |
| 35 | She took it for granted that each knew who the other was , and standing aside to motion him in she said : ‘ It 's good of you to be so accommodating , Mr Dalgliesh . |
| 36 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 37 | I 'd rather taken it for granted that she 'd come to London with me . |
| 38 | Some families take it for granted that the elderly are the natural responsibility of the unattached , but this is not so . |
| 39 | ‘ There was such an incredible level of will involved , ’ reflects Rowland , ‘ and we just took it for granted that we were , like , better than everybody else by about 50 million miles . |
| 40 | It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do . |
| 41 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 42 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 43 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 44 | It 's easy to take it for granted that we take medication to get better but a child does n't necessarily understand that . ’ |
| 45 | But the worst silence of all is when we take it for granted that they know how much they are still appreciated and that the calloused hands or fingers are symbols to us of the love and caring poured into our lives . |
| 46 | Personally , I would go further : employers who took it for granted that this was exactly what they were doing should not be open to fresh claims from the DSS . |
| 47 | We take it for granted that we have light to see by , natural or artificial . |
| 48 | Despite the darkness and unannounced approach , the raiding party found the Armstrong chiefs , Mangerton , Gilnockie , Whithaugh and the rest , awaiting their arrival at Langholm , their ‘ capital ’ , with some hundreds of their very tough riders assembled , a significant indication of their excellent information system in this wild Border country ; and when they heard of the descent on Dacre 's castle of Gilsland , they appeared to take it for granted that they would go along . |
| 49 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 50 | She had taken it for granted that if Isobel accompanied Hank to the ball , it would be a kind of aunt and nephew relationship , but now she wondered . |
| 51 | At that moment Mollie Green appeared , and both took it for granted that Robins could borrow the car . |
| 52 | And unless he speaks in a very odd way we take it for granted that he knows what he is saying . |
| 53 | All his life , he had taken it for granted that they loved each other to the exclusion of anyone else . |
| 54 | She took it for granted that he would know who Julian was . |
| 55 | The early feminists make more of an impression on us than the overwhelming mass of their contemporary sisters who took it for granted that their place in society would be one of legal and social inequality to men . |
| 56 | Such studies are rare since they require an examination of media practices and content as well as a critical assessment of the media 's presentation of the ‘ real world ’ — an assessment which takes it for granted that the media do not reproduce ‘ reality ’ in a pure form ; their use of language and images as well as the working practices of journalists inevitably refract ‘ reality ’ , so ‘ distorting ’ it . |
| 57 | Graham Murdock and Peter Golding , like other Marxists , take it for granted that there is a relationship between ‘ ownership and control ’ . |
| 58 | In most physiological psychology we take it for granted that lesions will centre on the structure selected by the experimenter . |
| 59 | A striking example of their dissociation is provided by the following exchange : on the one hand , Runciman takes it for granted that methodological individualism is ‘ now generally conceded to be almost trivially true ’ , while on the other Torrance asserts that ‘ In so far as methodological individualism is true it is trivial and irrelevant to sociology , while in so far as it is used to curb or dictate explanatory methods it is either incoherent or false ’ . |
| 60 | We simply took it for granted that women can function well in psychology in all kinds of settings , and we showed that they could by doing our work . |