Example sentences of "[noun pl] take [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some families take it for granted that the elderly are the natural responsibility of the unattached , but this is not so . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |