Example sentences of "[vb infin] it for [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 Do n't take it for granted that they 'll be OK .
2 A young wife may assume that her husband will come shopping with her and he may take it for granted that she will stay at home while he goes to the local football match , or plays golf with the boys .
3 Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ?
4 A reminder that he should not take it for granted that he would in time succeed to England , Normandy and Anjou ?
5 Do not take it for granted that Accounts will be paying up the way you want or that suppliers will stay with you if they do n't get paid on time .
6 Cutting a whole sequence of further corners I shall now take it for granted that the total process by which we habitually segment and classify the things in the external world and recognize them as belonging to species entities originates in an introspective self-awareness that " I " can be distinguished from " my body " .
7 On the other hand a Kachin will always take it for granted that anyone whom he is prepared to classify as a Jinghpaw is a kinsman of some sort .
8 The comfortable classes could take it for granted that such conditions were the lot of the working classes : sad but normal .
9 If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see .
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