Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for grant " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole country was hostile … its shabbiness I took for granted , ’ Sisson recalls about his school-age surroundings . |
| 2 | He says he has to go bat-fowling for what I take for granted — whatever bat-fowling may be . ’ |
| 3 | This is a book which takes for granted , and which has doubts about , the mingling of peoples , and it is a book which takes pride in its chosen people — Salim 's people and , in some measure , Naipaul 's . |
| 4 | In both these cases , there is a conformity in coverage which takes for granted a certain perspective on these issues . |
| 5 | Simmel tends towards a Romantic style of analysis which takes for granted a primitive undifferentiated nature , and various latent versions of totality , for example in art and aesthetics as models of utopian , if transient , resolutions . |
| 6 | But it needs to be said that it is not a belief that Richards himself takes for granted . |
| 7 | Unrepentant , the naive Petrashevskii proceeded in February 1848 to circulate a document which called for granting merchants the right to own populated estates on condition that they dealt with their serfs in accordance with the Law on Obligated Peasants of 1842 . |
| 8 | They take for granted , that if Christianity were true , the light of it must have been more general , and the evidence of it more satisfactory … if any of these persons are , upon the whole , in doubt concerning the truth of Christianity ; their behaviour seems owing to their taking for granted , through strange inattention , that such doubting is , in a manner , the same thing as being certain against it . |
| 9 | The book , which is fierce , elegant and utterly unsparing is bound to enrage anyone who takes for granted the necessity of State funding for the arts . |
| 10 | But that is because he is a physical scientist , who takes for granted the biologists " theory of evolution . |
| 11 | It was strange — hard — to think about something she took for granted . |
| 12 | Even were he able to persuade her to marry him , somehow he could not envisage her being content to live on a ranch among a whole lot of strangers and without the luxuries she took for granted . |
| 13 | It crossed Harry 's mind that on the kind of salary he received — even if he was lucky enough to be paid as well by an English employer as he was by Wendell Harvey — Madeleine would not be able to afford designer dresses , or any other of those expensive luxuries she took for granted . |
| 14 | You took for granted the presence of the Germans and the wire as ordinary citizens take for granted the law of gravity . |
| 15 | And if it did happen , your physical health could be just the first of many things you lose , that you take for granted now . |
| 16 | She is a kind and thoughtful provider — of home comfort , food , clean sheets , ironed shirts , fresh bread — all the things you take for granted at home . ’ |
| 17 | All the things you take for granted that are going to screw you up in London . |
| 18 | ‘ This year it 'll be the family Christmas I suppose everyone takes for granted . |
| 19 | Consider , for example , the introduction and successful operation of the wide bodied jets which everyone takes for granted today . |
| 20 | The advantages of using your own transport or having electricity available at the flick of a switch are obvious , but are the benefits of the chemical industry really recognised , or do we take for granted the improvements it has brought to our life-style ? |
| 21 | It is strange , as Betjeman said , that those we miss the most are those we take for granted . |
| 22 | He spent a month there , and his photographs show that the production of tyres , which are things that we take for granted , depend on individuals , their skills , and a surprising amount of physical effort . |
| 23 | For it often happens that the things we take for granted are the very things that need most explaining , but to which we give least attention because we are barely conscious of them ourselves . |
| 24 | We take for granted , too , the fact that water is liquid at normal Earthly temperatures and pressures : pure water freezes only at 0°C , and boils at 100°C ( which is how those quantities are defined ) . |
| 25 | Large areas of science we take for granted were unknown , and even unsuspected . |
| 26 | But many of the household products and home improvements that we take for granted are potentially harmful . |
| 27 | We take for granted our capacity to heal cuts and scratches , knit broken bones and cure colds . |
| 28 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 29 | According to Schutz , we take for granted that the world works in a reasonably rational and orderly way , unless and until something goes wrong . |
| 30 | It throws words like real and normal into question , continually challenges and subverts the things we take for granted , the things we think we know . |