Example sentences of "[adv] take for [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water is a precious commodity too long taken for granted in the West . |
| 2 | Water is a precious commodity too long taken for granted in the West . |
| 3 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
| 4 | Labour 's ‘ radical ’ plans are to be welcomed for the vision they bring of the kind of urban public transport that is more or less taken for granted in western Europe . |
| 5 | Tillyard suggested the principle of order was so taken for granted by the age that it was rarely directly articulated — ‘ the utter commonplaces too familiar for the poets to make detailed use of except in explicitly didactic passages , but essential as basic assumptions and invaluable at moments of high passion ’ . |
| 6 | It is not therefore surprising that walking is very much taken for granted by transport decision-makers , a familiarity that has two consequences . |
| 7 | A sixth principle , more easily taken for granted by audiences , perhaps , than the others , was geographical ‘ universality of service ’ . |
| 8 | The modern science of ecology emerged when naturalists trying to understand how a species ' distribution is limited by environmental factors sought to develop more precise ways of studying relationships that had been largely taken for granted by previous generations . |
| 9 | This means that the aesthetic exploitation of language takes the form of surprising a reader into a fresh awareness of and sensitivity to , the linguistic medium which is normally taken for granted as an " automatized " background of communication . |
| 10 | And give us back the pride and the credibility that we once took for granted as trade unionists but we allowed to slip away from us , and make us a force to be reckoned with , and send this government a message , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to tell us how to run the G M B , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to prevent us from protecting our brothers and sisters and we 'll no never ever allow anyone at Westminster to defeat the trade union movement . |
| 11 | Comparative study ( of different languages , dialects , styles , etc. ) can make explicit what is usually taken for granted about language . |
| 12 | Quantification is usually taken for granted in social dialectology , but it is not used in some other branches of sociolinguistics ( for example , those researches that follow Gumperz 's model ) , and there can be disputes about whether or not it should be used in given instances . |
| 13 | It 's one of those things that you always take for granted till it 's obviously taken away from you . |
| 14 | The systems , , graphical user interfaces , the concept of database management systems , repositories of information which are accessible and shareable are really taken for granted in many organizations . |
| 15 | At the beginning of a relationship sex is often taken for granted as a possibility , but girls have to take care that it does not happen too easily or too often . |
| 16 | Of course some policemen and women , at the other extreme , welcomed the research as an opportunity to talk about issues which are so often taken for granted among colleagues and family that they are not topics of conversation . |
| 17 | William Bayles Hauxwell fought mightily to keep pace with the ceaseless tide of farmwork at a time when mechanization and all the labour-saving devices now taken for granted in agriculture were but a distant dream in Baldersdale . |
| 18 | They are the generators of the material prosperity which is now taken for granted in the West . |
| 19 | Many of the other facts of life that we now take for granted in psychobiology , like the identity of neurotransmitter substances , the actual structure of the synapse , and the availability of reliable methods for tracing connections in the central nervous system have a similar short history . |
| 20 | It is simply taken for granted by the public that curriculum and examinations go together . |
| 21 | More than anything else it has changed the public lifestyle of Catholicism for the ordinary churchgoer so that it is hard for the young actually to realize that thirty years ago Mass said wholly in Latin , including even a first reading of Epistle and Gospel , was simply taken for granted by most people . |
| 22 | Monarchy was as widely taken for granted at the end of the nineteenth century as is universal suffrage today . |
| 23 | It was almost taken for granted until fairly recently that western , and particularly American , textbooks should be used in professional education in the Third World . |
| 24 | The transformation of Britain that has taken place in the past 13 years is too readily taken for granted by some of those who have most richly reaped the rewards : the new home owners , the new share-holders , the employees freed from the shackles of militant trade unionism , the NHS patients who have felt the benefits of fund-holding GPs and self-administered hospitals , parents who have witnessed their children thrive in grant-maintained schools . |
| 25 | ‘ My job means having to give up a lot of things that everyone else takes for granted in their life , and you 've always known that , Annabel , ’ Scott again reminded her . |
| 26 | His subsequent letters to her reveal a side of his personality that Victorian biographers preferred to suppress At this point it seems that Wolfgang was interested in matters more scatological than sexual ; his humour is of the smutty adolescent variety that was evidently taken for granted in Salzburg middle class society . |
| 27 | This situation is doubtless taken for granted by today 's generation , yet , less than twenty-five years ago , leading statisticians were expressing concern lest interposition of the machine would so distance them from the data under consideration that the quality of analysis would suffer . |