Example sentences of "taken it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economists have taken it for granted that to get round it , creditors will in practice need to get most of the benefit from debt relief . |
| 2 | He had taken it for granted that his verbose and glib explanation of the facts would convince the jury of his innocence . |
| 3 | The playing of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Peter Eötrös , who had given the work several times before this 1991 Prom performance , seems immensely confident and assured , all the complexities mastered ; and the recording quality is so good ( and the audience so quiet ) I would have taken it for a ‘ state-of-theart ’ studio job . |
| 4 | I 'd rather taken it for granted that she 'd come to London with me . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All his life , he had taken it for granted that they loved each other to the exclusion of anyone else . |
| 8 | Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . |
| 9 | Only women who have never taken the pill and those who have taken it for eight or more years are followed up beyond the age of 45 . |
| 10 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 11 | " Why — Martha , girl — I 've always taken it for granted that you and me would — would - " |
| 12 | Ruth instinctively clasped Fand 's hand again ; she 'd taken it for granted the half-mortals would be hostile to one of Fincara 's Women . |
| 13 | ‘ I did not ask her what she had taken it for . |
| 14 | So far we have taken it for granted that the distinction between ambiguity and generality is intuitively obvious . |
| 15 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I had taken it for granted that you would n't want a boring old fart like me trailing after you round Siena . ’ |
| 16 | In fact , the calculation above hides a significant assumption : We have taken it for granted that there are precisely 3 offspring . |
| 17 | If he had accepted her invitation to supper she would have taken it for encouragement ; he would simply have put off the evil day . |
| 18 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 19 | And they have happened as I have wanted , and I have taken it for granted that they have because I know where I 'm going . |
| 20 | He had taken it for granted that the other reasons did n't need to be spelled out . |
| 21 | I should have taken it for granted there was something the matter . ’ |
| 22 | She had heard the arrival as she weeded in the walled garden , but , like Taggy , she had taken it for Diggory . |
| 23 | If er someone 's taken it for a ride and dumped it near you then can you call Nottingham and it 's Dawn who wants her car back anything I can do you for three four three four three four is the number to ring . |
| 24 | The nearest Jaguar agents were in Vienna , where he had taken it for its first service , but the electronic engine management and monitoring systems were so complex that he wanted them checked over by experts . |
| 25 | Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in . |
| 26 | Police have taken it for tests and an inquiry is under way . |