Example sentences of "for grant " in BNC.
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| 1 | For much of its course , the later novel takes all this for granted . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One should add that Buckley takes the Christian myth for granted , as backdrop to the discourse . |
| 4 | Beer seems such a simple drink that we tend to take it for granted . |
| 5 | One problem with this cosy consensus , and its greatest irony , is that as a nation we take our pubs too much for granted . |
| 6 | She catalogues some of the services guests now take for granted , and which require electronic equipment working behind the scenes . |
| 7 | However , with fewer breaks pilots tend to take it for granted that they will not get a cable break , and this makes them more vulnerable when one does occur . |
| 8 | He took it all for granted , and would never have a clue just how blessed he was . |
| 9 | Yeah , she 'd started to need Dionne , pushed it aside since they were friends , and between friends you could take it for granted , since it was . |
| 10 | They took for granted what was dying in their hands . ’ |
| 11 | It was strange — hard — to think about something she took for granted . |
| 12 | Theory is what inevitably arises when literary conventions and critical definitions once taken for granted have become objects or generalized discussion and dispute . |
| 13 | ( Leavis , a forceful opponent of traditional literary education , indicated in Education and the University just how much cultural competence he took for granted in the student . ) |
| 14 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 15 | The practice of ‘ practical criticism ’ in fact unconsciously takes it for granted that the readers already know enough about poetry to have a grasp of rules and conventions sufficient to make adequate sense of the passage . |
| 16 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 17 | Before we leave this topic , with some doubtless well-received witticisms about the American ateliers that are called Schools of Creative Writing , let us ask ourselves how an artistic tradition is transmitted from generation to generation in England , if it is not transmitted in the way that Pound took for granted . |
| 18 | Williams 's ‘ It all depends ’ asserts and takes for granted the absence of any agreed hierarchies , hence the freedom of any individual to establish and assert his own hierarchy , without fear of challenge . |
| 19 | At the other end , Bryan Gould ( A Future for Socialism ) held his audience spellbound as he charted Labour 's recovery from assumptions of unchallenged ‘ rightness ’ , once taken for granted and shattered by Thatcherism . |
| 20 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 21 | We Westerners may take them for granted as part of the furniture of any self-respecting office and available to all on every high street . |
| 22 | ‘ The whole country was hostile … its shabbiness I took for granted , ’ Sisson recalls about his school-age surroundings . |
| 23 | People seem to take the party for granted , as they now do the unity accord , which they were talking gratefully about in November last . |
| 24 | We can not take it for granted any longer that the division of Germany is sustainable ; in consequence , the whole European security order may be unstable . |
| 25 | He explained that on the Continent it is taken for granted that fish caught on a line by small boats should command a premium for the careful handling that preserves both flavour and texture . |
| 26 | Real have won the championship in each of the last four seasons , so that is almost taken for granted ; his job is to win the European Cup , which the club last lifted in 1966 . |
| 27 | Tiriac is also concerned that the Germans are beginning to take their success for granted . |
| 28 | They were not taking the hero for granted , but missing him madly and praying that he would be fit to return for the Davis Cup . |
| 29 | Labour 's ‘ radical ’ plans are to be welcomed for the vision they bring of the kind of urban public transport that is more or less taken for granted in western Europe . |
| 30 | But they are supremely experienced in the process of discovery , and when they do play older repertory they always do it with a sense of looking freshly at the notes , taking nothing for granted . |