Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can argue that Greenfield does not make this explicit because she is taking for granted conventions that she herself has learnt in the western education system and which she expects her readers to share . |
| 2 | The injustice is that the donkey is beaten until it collapses and then it is beaten for collapsing . |
| 3 | Climbing is second nature to all small felines and it is virtually impossible for a cat to switch off its urge to climb , even if it is punished for doing so . |
| 4 | The tailwheel must be locked immediately before take-off and remain so until the completion of the landing roll , when it is unlocked for taxying and manoeuvring . |
| 5 | One of them is enclosed in the letters written by the same ship , another bill is sent overland to the factor or party to whom the goods are consigned , the third remaineth with the merchant , for his testimony against the master , if there were any occasion for loose dealing ; but especially it is kept for to serve in case of loss , to recover the value of the goods of the assurors that have undertaken to bear the adventure with you . |
| 6 | It is recommended for printing word-processed documents and graphics and , Olivetti says , is ideal as a personal printer for business users and for the education market . |
| 7 | It is recommended for demanding graphics applications such as three-dimensional modelling and visualisation . |
| 8 | It is recommended for publishing students as it gives a useful background to advanced work . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is taken for granted that they bring with them their housekeeping skills . |
| 12 | There are moments of natural awakening to one 's own beauty , but it is rare that it is really appreciated in the early years of womanhood ; usually it is taken for granted , and only lamented when it is gone . |
| 13 | It is taken for granted that men do and should occupy the leadership roles and make the important decisions . |
| 14 | Only if it is taken for granted that the preference behaviour is that of a conscious subject , does it , of itself , provide a reason for promoting the preferred end , — it would not matter in the least if there was no conscious individual there to mind about anything . |
| 15 | It is taken for granted that such taxation is related to income levels because the amount taken in income tax varies directly with incomes . |
| 16 | The speed and extent of this physical change , since it is taken for granted once accomplished , have considerable implications . |
| 17 | It is taken for granted that an institution will be sub-divided into faculties , schools , departments , units and centres ; but the epistemological implications of such subdivisions are rarely examined explicitly . |
| 18 | During these moist-palmed days of self-discovery , it is taken for granted that the penis can withstand a rigorous pummelling up to eight times a day . |
| 19 | The unspoken assumption here , as so often elsewhere , was that crowds would impair enjoyment — a typically individualistic assumption which it is taken for granted applies to the entire population . |
| 20 | More to the point is that the Discourse indicates the scientism of the period : it is taken for granted by the lecturer that Turner ought to paint a tree of a recognizable species , for example , and assumed that portrait painters are after an exact likeness . |
| 21 | It is used for making small castings . |
| 22 | It is used for breathing , especially when swimming . |
| 23 | It is used for greeting other elephants . |
| 24 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 25 | Since money is a medium of exchange , it is required for conducting transactions . |
| 26 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 27 | In his design he is credited for seeing that ‘ auditorium planning need not be inconsistent with good architecture ’ . |
| 28 | Time and again he is savaged for speaking on subjects about which his critics claim he knows nothing . |
| 29 | Yet if a supervisor is too vigilant , he is lambasted for sheltering banks from the discipline of the market or the effects of their own blunders . |
| 30 | At the same time he is blamed for allowing the incident to arise when it is usually inconceivable that he could have prevented it . |