Example sentences of "it for grant " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beer seems such a simple drink that we tend to take it for granted . |
| 2 | However , with fewer breaks pilots tend to take it for granted that they will not get a cable break , and this makes them more vulnerable when one does occur . |
| 3 | Yeah , she 'd started to need Dionne , pushed it aside since they were friends , and between friends you could take it for granted , since it was . |
| 4 | The practice of ‘ practical criticism ’ in fact unconsciously takes it for granted that the readers already know enough about poetry to have a grasp of rules and conventions sufficient to make adequate sense of the passage . |
| 5 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 6 | We can not take it for granted any longer that the division of Germany is sustainable ; in consequence , the whole European security order may be unstable . |
| 7 | Everyone took it for granted that it must be Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 8 | They took it for granted that this was Ramsey . |
| 9 | She took it for granted that they talked about ‘ the handover ’ . |
| 10 | They took it for granted that the international world was one of competing powers and that their duty was to make the most of whatever assets were available to them . |
| 11 | Within the Western tradition of art we tend to take it for granted that much can be learned from the study of the art of the past and , traditionally , copying from the works of the Great Masters was one of a young student 's most important tasks . |
| 12 | The idea of taxing what most people regard as their birthright , fresh air , is startling , but perhaps Tolba is right : we should not take it for granted . |
| 13 | Economists have taken it for granted that to get round it , creditors will in practice need to get most of the benefit from debt relief . |
| 14 | We take it for granted . |
| 15 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 16 | Almost all philosophically minded people of Clement 's age , except for only a tiny handful of Epicureans , took it for granted that the order of the world reflects a designing providential hand . |
| 17 | Do n't take it for granted that they 'll be OK . |
| 18 | Without such a stimulus , Libyans lived comfortably enough with Truth ; that is to say , they took it for granted , and ignored it . |
| 19 | Human regard for the sea has varied from the taking of it for granted as a tiresome obstacle to trade and exploration , to romanticising it in what so many writers are pleased to call its moods . |
| 20 | Davis is not taking it for granted . |
| 21 | We take it for granted , but it is important that the emergent nations of the Third World — themselves , many of them , deeply divided culturally , linguistically and genetically — should see what we have achieved , and where we have fallen short . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had taken it for granted that his verbose and glib explanation of the facts would convince the jury of his innocence . |
| 25 | Yet others may deplore British nationalism while taking it for granted that there is some homogeneous group called the British , thus conceding the basic premise for a British nationalism . |
| 26 | Ludens was right in a way to complain that they were now all taking it for granted . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Why do we take it for granted that education is a good to which everyone equally is entitled ? |
| 29 | Until recently , they took it for granted that their supplies from domestic sources could be obtained on credit and that , when these bills matured , any shortage of funds would be made good by the banks . |
| 30 | The reality surprised me at first , and then like everyone else , I took it for granted . |