Example sentences of "takes for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This year , the Television Conference at the Birmingham International Film and Television Festival takes for its theme SPORT ON TELEVISION . |
| 3 | It is important though to have corner blocks , and these I make in the time it takes for my tea to go cold . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Whatever the answer , do not fall into the trap of imagining that the impact of a flood in one of this year 's drought-ridden rivers will pass as quickly as the time it takes for the river to ‘ look ’ normal again . |
| 6 | Because the Moon revolves around the Earth , the lunar day — the time it takes for the Moon to appear at equal heights above the horizon on successive occasions — is longer than 24 hours . |
| 7 | Given the time it takes for non-experts to put up a house , the interest charges on your loan may eat considerably into the discount you capture by using your own labour , says Tuffin . |
| 8 | It has an extremely long radioactive half-life ( the time it takes for half its activity to decay ) of up to 24,000 years . |
| 9 | Her mother and cold-hearted step-father tax her wage packet , the job is drudgery — and finally there 's the man … whom Iris , with her mind full of trashy romances , mistakenly takes for the fairy prince she 's awaited so long . |
| 10 | You can not put a time on how long it takes for a swimfeeder to empty . |
| 11 | The fit is polished as many times as it takes for the residuals to show no more evidence of a relationship with the X values — for the slope to be zero ; the slope usually changes by gradually smaller and smaller amounts , and converges on a stable result . |
| 12 | But just how long it takes for the heat to flow out will depend on how well your home is insulated and draught proofed . |
| 13 | Despite the large amount of funding that has been pumped into the scheme teachers are worried by the time it takes for materials and information to get through to them . |
| 14 | It is a more complex tension between the time it takes for any educational system to assimilate innovation , and the pressing need of computer manufacturers and software publishers to market new products . |
| 15 | The question takes for granted that there is no ‘ divine ’ source from which a ready-made human conscience will be provided for each new-born child . |
| 16 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 17 | It 's long and straight and takes for ever but eventually we get to the outskirts of Newbury . |
| 18 | No more and no less than any man takes for service with the fleet . |
| 19 | Now break it up as it is cut along the dotted lines and the object is to see how long it takes for it to be reassembled . |
| 20 | But I can not deny that the literature chapter takes for granted major assumptions about the value of great literature in the curriculum , and does not engage with the many recent books which have challenged this belief ( for example , Brian Doyle 's English and Englishness [ 1989 ] ) . |
| 21 | ‘ This year it 'll be the family Christmas I suppose everyone takes for granted . |
| 22 | ‘ Les has got what it takes for international football . |
| 23 | In other words , in the time it takes for one murder on the crime clock , six workers have died ‘ just trying to make a living ’ ! ’ |
| 24 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 25 | In both these cases , there is a conformity in coverage which takes for granted a certain perspective on these issues . |
| 26 | Phosphate is the least problem and , perhaps because of the almost profligate use of bone meal and the very long time it takes for the phosphate to be released by bacterial decomposition , is very seldom indeed the cause for worry . |
| 27 | Consider , for example , the introduction and successful operation of the wide bodied jets which everyone takes for granted today . |
| 28 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 29 | As social anthropologists our major concern is with those ideas and ways of behaving which a given community takes for granted as the ‘ natural ’ order of things . |
| 30 | The graph below shows how long it takes for the present value of £1,000 per year to reach £15,000 . |