Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] taken for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply taken for granted by the public that curriculum and examinations go together . |
| 2 | There , too , one can assign a co-ordination of properties , as in ( 44 ) , or a single complex property , ( 45 ) , but it is simply taken for granted that one does not produce grammatical monstrosities such as ( 46 ) and ( 47 ) with , respectively , simultaneous and successive ( but in neither case co-ordinated ) assignment of different properties . |
| 3 | It is generally taken for granted ( by members of society and governments alike ) that investments should bring profit and that the living standards of the propertyless should be based on the demands of the market for their skills . |
| 4 | A problem in studying language is that it is often too close to individual speakers to be observed dispassionately : it is either taken for granted and not seen at all , or is too intimately involved in individual and social identity to be discussed objectively . |
| 5 | It is increasingly taken for granted that any post-war reordering of the Middle East will include a fresh bid to break the Arab-Israeli impasse . |
| 6 | But the main point is this : that irrespective of whether an analysis is embarked upon from the position of an openly stated or tacitly assumed ontological bias , or whether , on the contrary , the question of an ultimate choice of basic ontological existents is deliberately left undecided , it is usually taken for granted that the concept of an ontological existent is in general well understood . |
| 7 | It is now taken for granted that children will know their grandparents . |