Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 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 ’ .
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 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 .
6 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 .
7 Britain took him for granted .
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