Example sentences of "[noun] take [pron] for [verb] " 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 | People who do n't put on weight take it for granted that the rest of us are greedy and lacking in will power . |
| 3 | Headed Deaf Motorists : Are They a Danger ? it argues convincingly that they are not , and explains that " unlike motorists who can hear , the deaf motorist never expects to receive any audible warning when on the road , and , therefore , never under any circumstances takes anything for granted . |
| 4 | A striking example of their dissociation is provided by the following exchange : on the one hand , Runciman takes it for granted that methodological individualism is ‘ now generally conceded to be almost trivially true ’ , while on the other Torrance asserts that ‘ In so far as methodological individualism is true it is trivial and irrelevant to sociology , while in so far as it is used to curb or dictate explanatory methods it is either incoherent or false ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Then you had no right to speak for me , ’ Merrill whispered in hushed irritation , ‘ no right to take it for granted that — ’ |
| 7 | The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights takes it for granted not merely that all individual men are members of a single animal species , Homo sapiens , but that this biological fact carries with it moral implications . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some families take it for granted that the elderly are the natural responsibility of the unattached , but this is not so . |
| 10 | Nor can an economist take it for granted that inflation will make people save more ( in the US they save less ) . |
| 11 | It is evident that Lakatos took it for granted that physics constitutes the paradigm of rationality and good science . |
| 12 | Even Nanny took it for granted . |
| 13 | Most people take it for granted they can out-smart a peeper like me without too much trouble . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | McDonald 's belongs to a federation of companies in the same business and the area man takes it for granted that the firm 's competitors will soon hear about the relaxed consent and apply to the agency for similar leniency . |
| 17 | The scrutiny takes nothing for granted but looks directly at what actually happens at all levels of the area under study . |
| 18 | It is as if Hahnemann takes it for granted that we all understand the importance of quantity , as well as potency , when administering a remedy , but this seems almost a revolutionary concept to us as we rarely consider this factor when using both low and high potency centesimal remedies . |
| 19 | Britain took him for granted . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is an elementary mistake to take it for granted that an act which has one symbolic meaning for us today possessed that same meaning eight hundred years ago . |
| 22 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 23 | In ecology the Germans take it for granted that they are more ecology-minded than anyone else , and that they have a special sensitivity for this too . |
| 24 | So it 's not a good idea to take anything for granted , especially your relationship . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Because social anthropologists take it for granted ( sometimes mistakenly ) that the distinction between true-kin and affines is of absolutely central importance they expect to find that the behaviour that is appropriate between affines will be a kind of coded inversion of the behaviour that is appropriate between true-kin . |