Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [prep] grant " in BNC.

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1 Barney took it for granted Yanto would have a cup , and made a signal to his wife through the kitchen window .
2 With rare exceptions the classical economists took it for granted that a reduction in the money-wage rate would be translated into the all important reduction in the real-wage rate which was required by marginal productivity theory .
3 She could n't quite remember when it was that she 'd realized Georg took it for granted they 'd get married as soon as she was old enough .
4 It is evident that Lakatos took it for granted that physics constitutes the paradigm of rationality and good science .
5 Even Nanny took it for granted .
6 Even Crosland took it for granted , in trying to disarm those critics who argued that comprehensives would damage standards , that pupils who would have gone to grammar schools would of course still be taught with those of their contemporaries who would also have gone to grammar schools .
7 But many biologists took it for granted that the main purpose of evolutionism was to elucidate the precise course of life 's development from its earliest origins .
8 The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls .
9 Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated .
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