Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] for grant " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took my permission for granted , and I bent my head . |
| 2 | Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door . |
| 3 | Do they take a blindfold and a pin into the booth with them , and then spend four years boasting that nobody had better take their support for granted if they want to get re-elected ? |
| 4 | Its proposals for granting devolved government to Scotland , with tax-raising powers , would enable Scottish Labour MPs to impose their will on England at Westminster , while the Union 's powers over Scotland would be greatly diminished . |
| 5 | ’ magistrates are already required to state publicly their reasons for granting bail in serious cases . |
| 6 | The proposed new European Medicines Evaluation Agency may decide to publish in outline its reasons for granting licences , which would match long established practice in the United States and elsewhere . |
| 7 | It is becoming painfully clear , however , that students at Stirling University can no longer afford to take their Association for granted . |
| 8 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 9 | No one with any wisdom or common sense still takes their job for granted . |
| 10 | But precisely because Edward I could not take their consent for granted and in his later years preferred to tap the clergy 's wealth instead by mandatory papal levies , the survival and role of an independent clerical body for the gathering of taxation remained uncertain at his death . |
| 11 | Is a defendant who fails even to consider that a woman might not be consenting still to be acquitted if he takes her consent for granted ? |
| 12 | Liberal Democrat councillor Joe Michna accused Labour-controlled Middlesbrough Council , which backed the scheme , of taking its people for granted . |
| 13 | Tiriac is also concerned that the Germans are beginning to take their success for granted . |
| 14 | Du Pont Pixel says , ‘ the OGI strategy is now operational and Silicon Graphics ca n't afford to take their markets for granted anymore , with this architecture once a piece or hardware or software has been modified it will run on full blown Sparcstations , clones , in fact anything that it is Sparc-compatible ’ . |
| 15 | But , on other occasions Laura could laugh at herself just as easily because she was constantly amused by the transience of fame and never took her public for granted . |
| 16 | Members of society usually take their culture for granted . |
| 17 | Kelly shook her head incredulously ; Ibn Fayoud had taken her acceptance for granted . |
| 18 | To her chagrin he took her acceptance for granted . |
| 19 | Lesley had issued her fiat with such confidence that she had taken his compliance for granted . |
| 20 | Ian has made a better recovery than we dared hope , but it is still important that we do not take his fitness for granted . |
| 21 | We tend to take our water for granted , a turn of the tap and we have all we need , but we should consider more this most important mineral , without which we could not exist , the dry summer of 1976 proving how much we owe to water companies and the men who operate them . |
| 22 | I had taken your affection for granted . ’ |