Example sentences of "it be take for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the time that Captain Cook was engaged in his voyages of exploration in the Pacific in the late-eighteenth century it was taken for granted that the inhabitants of the newly discovered islands would be men and not monsters , but cannibalism was still seen as somehow sub-human . |
| 32 | It was taken for granted , therefore , in the major peace conferences of the later seventeenth century that the arrangements must ensure that no important state was placed in a position of apparent inferiority to a rival . |
| 33 | This kind of information is difficult to acquire after things have gone out of general use and was often not recorded in the past because it was taken for granted . |
| 34 | ‘ I had n't expected the papers to pick up on Thomas 's birth , ’ she went on , ‘ but when they did and when it was taken for granted that he was Simon 's I let that be , too . ’ |