Example sentences of "take [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She catalogues some of the services guests now take for granted , and which require electronic equipment working behind the scenes . |
| 2 | many courts will be unfamiliar with international law and with the customs and practices which the business community take for granted . |
| 3 | ‘ And if he 's got things like your class take for granted you jump right on him , say he must have nicked them . |
| 4 | ‘ If he 's got things like your class take for granted , ’ the girl had said , ‘ you say he must have nicked them . ’ |
| 5 | As the Club Conference Committee was struggling to express this wider vision in an initial Statement of Aims , it was Philip in 1964 who produced the winning title that we all now take for granted — Frontier Youth Trust . |
| 6 | It is strange , as Betjeman said , that those we miss the most are those we take for granted . |
| 7 | All they had done was to try to live an ordinary private life in South Africa with the dignity that we all take for granted , ’ says Gerrard . |
| 8 | He spent a month there , and his photographs show that the production of tyres , which are things that we take for granted , depend on individuals , their skills , and a surprising amount of physical effort . |
| 9 | The government is also aware that during the next ten years Japan has its last chance to provide more of the amenities that most westerners take for granted . |
| 10 | Many French politicians take for granted a Europe in which France shares a lead ; they sense it is at risk . |
| 11 | Neither has the polarity between Male and Female which we so take for granted ever been based on rock-solid foundations , but has depended on a variety of shifting meanings . |
| 12 | I also take for granted the fact that the water is normally heated , and that there is a mikva which is easily accessible from my home . |
| 13 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 14 | This publication manages to pack into its few pages masses of useful information for those with allergies who have to pick their way through foods the rest of us take for granted . |
| 15 | Having a comfortable bed to sleep in is a luxury that most of us take for granted . |
| 16 | For it often happens that the things we take for granted are the very things that need most explaining , but to which we give least attention because we are barely conscious of them ourselves . |
| 17 | We take for granted , too , the fact that water is liquid at normal Earthly temperatures and pressures : pure water freezes only at 0°C , and boils at 100°C ( which is how those quantities are defined ) . |
| 18 | They take for granted , that if Christianity were true , the light of it must have been more general , and the evidence of it more satisfactory … if any of these persons are , upon the whole , in doubt concerning the truth of Christianity ; their behaviour seems owing to their taking for granted , through strange inattention , that such doubting is , in a manner , the same thing as being certain against it . |
| 19 | The individual organism is something whose existence most biologists take for granted , probably because its parts do pull together in such a united and integrated way . |
| 20 | In addition there is less local support available : local 'Housing Aid centres , Consumer Advice Centres , marriage counsellors , women 's refuges and the host of referral or consultancy agencies that city bureaux take for granted , are too far away . |
| 21 | You took for granted the presence of the Germans and the wire as ordinary citizens take for granted the law of gravity . |
| 22 | Reading is a skill which many people take for granted . |
| 23 | Large areas of science we take for granted were unknown , and even unsuspected . |
| 24 | The constant exposure to doom and gloom that most of us take for granted can be a source of hidden stress — if you have real problems to contend with you do not need this extra mental burden . |
| 25 | Feelings were mixed , a touch of sadness that it was all over and the thought of a shower , some dry clothes and other such luxuries one normally take for granted . |
| 26 | But many of the household products and home improvements that we take for granted are potentially harmful . |
| 27 | What we should remember is that , using a white 1967 Gibson SG Custom ( converted to suit his left-handed playing ) Ollie actually invented the hammered-on , four finger runs we all take for granted today . |
| 28 | We take for granted our capacity to heal cuts and scratches , knit broken bones and cure colds . |
| 29 | It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission . |
| 30 | According to Schutz , we take for granted that the world works in a reasonably rational and orderly way , unless and until something goes wrong . |